Two players, one answer.
Austin Hooper vs Mitchell Evans
Any league · this week start/sit · PPR
Stats through week 7 of 2026
This week
No call this week: one of them has no game or a projection under 4 points
Rest of season
Mitchell Evans by 18% (redraft PPR)Dynasty
Mitchell Evans by 76% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 8 · PPR · 57% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Austin Hooper is projected 1.5 points ahead of Mitchell Evans. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 57% of the time. That's close to a coin flip: on these projections neither is the better start, and an injury report or a projection update before kickoff can tip it.
TE · ATL
Austin Hooper
3.3 projected
@ TB · Sun 1:00 PM ET
4.1 a game this season · last 3: 1.9, 1.6, 4.1
TE · CAR
Mitchell Evans
1.8 projected
@ GB · Thu 8:15 PM ET
3.1 a game this season · last 3: 1.8, 0.1, 5.9
What the call rests on
- Austin Hooper: Sleeper's projection, last changed Wed, Oct 28, 12:20 AM ET
- Mitchell Evans: Sleeper's projection, last changed Wed, Oct 28, 12:20 AM ET
- Sleeper's projections read Wed, Oct 28, 12:22 AM ET.
- Injury statuses read Wed, Oct 28, 12:22 AM ET, with the projections (hourly). A fresh projection time doesn't mean every status is: game-day inactives, about 90 minutes before kickoff, can come after it.
| Same projections, scored | Hooper | Evans |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 3.3 | 1.8 |
| Half PPR | 2.7 | 1.4 |
| Standard | 2.1 | 1 |
What could change it before kickoff
- A projection update of 1.5 points or more in the other direction flips the call; Sleeper keeps adjusting its projections until kickoff, and this page reads them again at most an hour after it last did.
- Mitchell Evans plays first (Thu 8:15 PM ET); once his game starts most platforms lock him in or out, before Austin Hooper's late news is known.
Open in Who should I start (your league, more players)
This week’s projections are Sleeper’s, scored with PPR settings. The percentage is how often a projected gap like this held up across the 2025 season; checked against 2026 games (not used to fit it), the stated chances so far run a few points high, so read a 60% call as nearer 55%.