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Should I start Theo Johnson or Austin Hooper in Week 10?

Updated Nov 10, 10:11 AM ET.

Week 10 verdict

Start

TE · NYG · vs WAS

Market projects
2.1
fantasy pts
WAS D vs TE
20.7
2nd most to TEs (2026)
Upside
Limited
31 of 100 at TE
Snap share
33%
Through Week 9
Target share
5%
Through Week 9
Sit

TE · ATL · vs KC

Market projects
1.6
recent weeks avg
KC D vs TE
17.8
5th most to TEs (2026)
Snap share
23%
Through Week 9
Target share
5%
Through Week 9
Start Johnson or Hooper? The full Week 10 breakdown

Start Theo Johnson: 35 percent of the snaps and 4 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Austin Hooper's 21 percent of the snaps and 4 percent of the targets. 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.

TE28 · NYG · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 1-5

Market-based projection
1.7 pts a game

TE · ATL · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 1-8

Overall rank
not on the board

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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 Theo Johnson, and the board ranks him 142nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

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.

The market-based projections

Theo Johnson's market-based projection is 1.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 133rd highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Theo Johnson has been on the field for 33 percent of NYG snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 59 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have averaged 10.8 air yards.

In Week 4 against ARI he caught 1 of 1 target for 11 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against WAS he caught 2 of 3 targets for 35 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against PHI he was not given the ball.

Through Week 9, Austin Hooper has been on the field for 23 percent of ATL snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 1 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 69 third down targets, had 1 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 3.7 air yards.

In Week 7 against SF he caught 2 of 2 targets for 21 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against TB he caught 1 of 1 target for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against CIN he was not given the ball.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Theo Johnson played 15 games and scored 127.8 PPR points, 8.5 a game, finishing TE18.

He caught 45 of 74 targets for 528 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.

That came to 4.9 targets a game, a 61 percent catch rate and 11.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 87 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 13 yards a catch.

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

Austin Hooper was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Theo Johnson scored 8.5 PPR points a game and Austin Hooper 3.7, 4.8 a game between them.

Theo Johnson finished TE18 that year and Austin Hooper TE47.

Theo Johnson had 48 more targets than Austin Hooper, 74 to 26.

Theo Johnson had 265 more receiving yards than Austin Hooper, 528 to 263.

This season Theo Johnson holds the bigger snap share, 33 percent against 23 percent.

Their target share this season is the same, 5 percent each.

What would change the answer

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

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