Should I start Austin Hooper or Noah Gray in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Our board does not carry Austin Hooper at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking 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 Noah Gray at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.

The market-based projections

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 Noah Gray, 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 6

Through Week 6, Austin Hooper has been on the field for 24 percent of ATL snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 47 third down targets, had 1 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 3.3 air yards.

In Week 4 against NO he caught 1 of 1 target for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BAL he was not given the ball.

In Week 6 against CHI he caught 1 of 1 target for 6 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Noah Gray has been on the field for 59 percent of KC snaps, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 6.2 air yards.

In Week 3 against MIA he caught 3 of 3 targets for 39 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against LV he caught 2 of 3 targets for 17 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against LAC he caught 3 of 3 targets for 53 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 13 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Noah Gray played 16 games and scored 38.8 PPR points, 2.4 a game, finishing TE59.

He caught 21 of 37 targets for 178 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 1 red zone target.

That came to 2.3 targets a game, a 57 percent catch rate and 9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 52 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 16 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Austin Hooper scored 3.7 PPR points a game and Noah Gray 2.4, 1.3 a game between them.

Austin Hooper finished TE47 that year and Noah Gray TE59.

Noah Gray had 11 more targets than Austin Hooper, 37 to 26.

Austin Hooper had 85 more receiving yards than Noah Gray, 263 to 178.

This season Noah Gray holds the bigger snap share, 59 percent against 24 percent.

This season Noah Gray holds the bigger target share, 7 percent against 5 percent.