Sione Vaki or Austin Hooper: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Sione Vaki: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 229th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Austin Hooper: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 230th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

No season market is posted for Sione Vaki, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

The player markets price Austin Hooper at 1.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 17 market sources. That is the 33rd highest figure of the 34 players the market prices.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Sione Vaki has been on the field for 23 percent of DET snaps, taken 9 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 36 third down targets, had 0 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have averaged 1.6 air yards.

In Week 2 against BUF he carried 1 time for 7 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against NYJ he carried 6 times for 26 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against CAR he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 17 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Sione Vaki played 11 games and scored 0.4 PPR points, 0.0 a game, finishing RB143.

He carried 1 time for 4 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 0 targets for 0 more yards.

That came to 0.1 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry.

He was on the field for 0 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Austin Hooper was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Austin Hooper scored 3.7 PPR points a game and Sione Vaki 0.0, 3.7 a game between them.

Sione Vaki finished RB143 and Austin Hooper TE47, which are two different ladders.

Sione Vaki is a running back and Austin Hooper a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

What would change the answer

Sione Vaki has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.