ATL · TE
Austin Hooper
Austin Hooper is a tight end for the Atlanta Falcons. Depth chart: TE2.
Scouting report
Austin Hooper: the full picture
Austin Hooper at a glance
Austin Hooper is a 31-year-old tight end for the Atlanta Falcons, listed at 6'4" and 254 pounds. The Atlanta Falcons drafted Hooper 81st overall in the third round in 2016, out of Stanford, and 2026 is Hooper's 11th NFL season.
2026 projection
The Gridiron Value season model projects Hooper for 32.6 PPR points in 2026, which ranks TE50 at the position and works out to 2.2 points per game over 17.0 projected games.
2026 season so far
Through 1 game of 2026, Hooper has scored 4.0 PPR points, or 4.0 per game. That is 12.3% of the full-season projection; at the current rate Hooper would finish with about 68 points, ahead of the 32.6 projected. It is a small sample, so expect that pace to settle. The best week so far is 4.0 points in Week 2 against CAR, the TE27 finish that week. Hooper has cleared the 7-point mark we count as a usable TE start in 0 of 1 game, a 0% consistency rate.
Career track record
By season-long PPR scoring, Hooper has finished as TE22 in 2020, TE25 in 2021, TE24 in 2022, TE48 in 2023, TE24 in 2024 and TE47 in 2025. Two of those 10 seasons ended inside the top twelve. The high-water mark is 191.7 PPR points in 2019. Across 150 regular-season games on record, the totals read 432 receptions, 4,461 receiving yards and 30 receiving touchdowns.
Austin Hooper by the numbers
Hooper has been the highest-scoring tight end of the week 2 times, finished in the weekly top five at the position 13 times and finished in the top twelve 33 times. The career high is 25.7 PPR points, set in Week 6 of 2019 against ARI. The game log also shows 3 100-yard receiving games. In all, Hooper has reached 20 points in 6 games, 4% of career appearances.
Contract
Hooper is playing on a one-year, $3.3 million contract signed with the Atlanta Falcons in 2026, an average of $3.3 million per year with $2.7 million guaranteed. The deal runs through the 2026 season.
Dynasty market
In dynasty formats Hooper carries a GV stock price of 1,756, which ranks 446th overall and TE74 among tight ends out of 940 priced players. In redraft the same model ranks Hooper 327th overall. Value has moved down 2.9 since the previous model run. The closest profiles by the similarity model are Drew Sample, Elijah Arroyo and Sam Roush. See where Hooper sits on the trade value chart.
2026 projected stat line
- Projected PPR
- 32.6
- PPR / game
- 2.2
Austin Hooper fantasy outlook
Austin Hooper enters the 2026 season with ATL and ranks TE65 and #404 overall in the current Gridiron Value projection. The model projects 32.6 PPR points across 15.0 games, or 2.2 points per game, placing the expected outcome in a depth and watch-list tier. The preseason depth chart lists Austin Hooper as TE2, so the opportunity forecast is tied to that current role rather than name value alone. In 2025, Austin Hooper produced 59.3 PPR points in 13 games (4.6 per game), giving the projection a recent performance baseline. Projection confidence is 34%, with a 0% modeled chance of a Top-24 positional finish. The main variables are role stability, team scoring volume, and normal efficiency variance.
Week 3 projection
Austin Hooper is projected for 1.8 PPR points on the road at GB in week 3, with a likely range of 0.0 to 10.0.
Trade value
Gridiron Value prices every player from 0 to 100 within each league format. Value is down 2.9 since the previous model run (stable).
- Redraft
- 16.4
- Dynasty
- 17.0
- Superflex redraft
- 26.4
- Superflex dynasty
- 18.8
- TE premium dynasty
- 15.1
Career stats
| Season | Team | G | Tgt | Rec | Rec yds | Rec TD | Car | Rush yds | PPR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | ATL | 1 | 4 | 2 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.0 |
| 2025 | NE | 13 | 26 | 21 | 263 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 59.3 |
| 2024 | NE | 17 | 59 | 45 | 476 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 108.6 |
| 2023 | LV | 16 | 31 | 25 | 234 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48.4 |
| 2022 | TEN | 17 | 60 | 41 | 444 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 97.4 |
| 2021 | CLE | 15 | 61 | 38 | 345 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 92.5 |
| 2020 | CLE | 13 | 70 | 46 | 435 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 113.5 |
| 2019 | ATL | 13 | 97 | 75 | 787 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 191.7 |
| 2018 | ATL | 16 | 88 | 71 | 660 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 163.0 |
| 2017 | ATL | 16 | 65 | 49 | 526 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 119.6 |
Tight ends ranked near Austin Hooper
- Noah Fant TE47 · 61.6 PPR
- Terrance Ferguson TE48 · 50.1 PPR
- Connor Heyward TE49 · 37.6 PPR
- David Njoku TE51 · 30.9 PPR
- Darren Waller TE52 · 30.6 PPR
- Marlin Klein TE53 · 28.9 PPR
Atlanta Falcons fantasy players
- Bijan Robinson RB · 353.7 PPR
- Drake London WR · 288.1 PPR
- Michael Penix Jr. QB · 199.9 PPR
- Kyle Pitts TE · 189.8 PPR
- Brian Robinson RB · 116.5 PPR
- Jahan Dotson WR · 105.5 PPR
Projections are model estimates, not recorded results. Snapshot 2026-09-24.