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Should I start Austin Hooper or Shawn Bowman in Week 7?

Updated Oct 23, 1:06 PM ET.

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Week 7 verdict

Start Austin Hooper over Shawn Bowman

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Austin Hooper

TE · ATL · vs SF

Market projects
1.5
fantasy pts
SF D vs TE
9.3
4th fewest to TEs (2026)
Snap share
24%
Through Week 6
Target share
5%
Through Week 6
Sit

Shawn Bowman

TE · ARI · vs DEN

Market projects
0.1
fantasy pts
DEN D vs TE
13.3
14th most to TEs (2026)
Start Hooper or Bowman? The full Week 7 breakdown

Start Austin Hooper: he has been on the field this season, 17 percent of the snaps, and Shawn Bowman has no snap on record yet. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Austin Hooper

TE41 · ATL · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 1-5

Market-based projection
1.5 pts a game

Shawn Bowman

TE42 · ARI · bye unlisted

Overall rank
219

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Austin Hooper, and the board ranks him 210th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Shawn Bowman, and the board ranks him 219th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Austin Hooper's market-based projection is 1.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 182nd highest figure of the 205 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Shawn Bowman is 0.6 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 3 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Shawn Bowman's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

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.

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Shawn Bowman this season.

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.

The season feed carries no line for Shawn Bowman in the last completed season.

What would change the answer

Shawn Bowman has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.

Both players in full

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