The Sheffield Wednesday striker has scored eight in 12 so far.
Were Sheffield Wednesday supporters to vote for their team’s player of the season now, there’s a strong chance 100 per cent of responses would rhyme with Larry Drooper.
But despite scoring seven goals in his last seven games for the Owls, Gary Hooper is not, statistically speaking, their best performer so far.
Perhaps surprisingly, Adam Reach is the only Wednesday player with a better score (7.39) than the Owls’ number 14, and is again, statistically speaking, the 19th best player in the entire division.
The former Middlesbrough man hasn’t had the best of times since his rumoured £5 million transfer a year ago, but is arguably experiencing his best run of form in Wednesday colours – having provided three assists in 11 appearances this season.
And Reach, who has spent much of the campaign slightly out of position on the left of a back four, is already well up on last season’s average rating of 6.88.
At the other end of the overall scale, which only takes into account those to have made more than the average number of appearances, Jacob Butterfield (6.23) and Jordan Rhodes (6.14) place 313th and 319th respectively out of 327.
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