Should I start Tyler Warren or Austin Hooper in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyler Warren, and the board ranks him 198th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Austin Hooper, and the board ranks him 217th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Tyler Warren is 2.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Austin Hooper's market-based projection is 1.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 187th highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 5, Tyler Warren has been on the field for 91 percent of IND snaps, drawn 22 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 2 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 36 targets have averaged 4.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against HOU he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 9 of 10 targets for 55 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against WAS he caught 5 of 5 targets for 41 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against PIT he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 7 of 9 targets for 83 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tyler Warren played 17 games and scored 188.5 PPR points, 11.1 a game, finishing TE4.

He caught 76 of 112 targets for 817 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 19 red zone targets.

That came to 6.6 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 10.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 84 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.

Tyler Warren was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Tyler Warren scored 11.1 PPR points a game and Austin Hooper 3.7, 7.4 a game between them.

Tyler Warren finished TE4 that year and Austin Hooper TE47.

Tyler Warren had 86 more targets than Austin Hooper, 112 to 26.

Tyler Warren had 554 more receiving yards than Austin Hooper, 817 to 263.

This season Tyler Warren holds the bigger snap share, 91 percent against 24 percent.

This season Tyler Warren holds the bigger target share, 22 percent against 5 percent.

Byes and availability

Tyler Warren is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Austin Hooper.

Tyler Warren is listed as out on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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