Austin Hooper or Mitchell Evans: who should I start in Week 5?
Neither man carries a posted season price right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 7, 2026 at 9:56 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market prices neither of them this season, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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TE · ATL · bye unlisted
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TE · CAR · bye unlisted
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- not on the board
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The gap
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Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Our board does not carry Austin Hooper at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
Our board does not carry Mitchell Evans at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
What the player markets price
No season market is posted for Austin Hooper, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Mitchell Evans, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, Austin Hooper has been on the field for 28 percent of ATL snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 26 third down targets, had 1 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 14 two minute targets.
His 7 targets have averaged 3.0 air yards.
In Week 2 against CAR he caught 2 of 4 targets for 20 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against GB he caught 2 of 2 targets for 11 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 4 against NO he caught 1 of 1 target for 9 yards and did not score.
Through Week 4, Mitchell Evans has been on the field for 46 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 1 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 25 two minute targets.
His 7 targets have averaged 4.7 air yards.
In Week 2 against ATL he caught 1 of 1 target for 13 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against CLE he caught 3 of 3 targets for 36 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against DET he caught 1 of 1 target for 8 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Austin Hooper played 16 games and scored 59.3 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing TE47.
He caught 21 of 26 targets for 263 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 5 red zone targets.
That came to 1.6 targets a game, a 81 percent catch rate and 12.5 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Mitchell Evans played 17 games and scored 48.2 PPR points, 2.8 a game, finishing TE54.
He caught 19 of 25 targets for 171 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.
That came to 1.5 targets a game, a 76 percent catch rate and 9.0 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 37 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Mitchell Evans was available for 1 game more.
Head to head
In 2025 Austin Hooper scored 3.7 PPR points a game and Mitchell Evans 2.8, 0.9 a game between them.
Austin Hooper finished TE47 that year and Mitchell Evans TE54.
Austin Hooper had 1 more targets than Mitchell Evans, 26 to 25.
Austin Hooper had 92 more receiving yards than Mitchell Evans, 263 to 171.
This season Mitchell Evans holds the bigger snap share, 46 percent against 28 percent.
This season Austin Hooper holds the bigger target share, 8 percent against 5 percent.
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