Should I start Bo Nix or Germie Bernard in Week 8?

Updated Oct 27, 8:26 PM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.

Start Bo Nix: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Germie Bernard's 92 percent of the snaps and 25 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.

Should I drop Germie Bernard for Bo Nix?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Bo Nix projects 146 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (16.2 a game over 9 games), Germie Bernard 50 (5.5 a game over 9 games).

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Bo Nix

QB11 · DEN · bye 10

2026 vs pass yds line 2-5

Market-based projection: 15.8 pts a game

Germie Bernard

WR17 · PIT · bye 9

2026 vs anytime td line 1-6

Market-based projection: 13.0 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank: 41

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The gap

Board size293 draftable players

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 Bo Nix, and the board ranks him 40th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Germie Bernard, and the board ranks him 41st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Bo Nix's market-based projection is 15.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 12th highest figure of the 198 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Germie Bernard is 5.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 2 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Bo Nix has been on the field for 100 percent of DEN snaps, dropped back 234 times and thrown 5.7 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 24 of 234 dropbacks and scrambled 7 times.

In Week 5 against LAC he completed 16 of 27 passes for 123 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 10 yards.

In Week 6 against SEA he completed 17 of 27 passes for 107 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 3 yards.

In Week 7 against ARI he completed 15 of 29 passes for 222 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 75 yards.

Through Week 7, Germie Bernard has been on the field for 61 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 37 targets have averaged 5.7 air yards.

In Week 5 against IND he carried 1 time for 4 yards, caught 6 of 9 targets for 80 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against TB he caught 11 of 12 targets for 87 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against NO he caught 3 of 5 targets for 27 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Bo Nix played 17 games and scored 315.8 PPR points, 18.6 a game, finishing QB7.

He threw for 3931 yards on 612 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 356 yards and 5 touchdowns.

That came to 36.0 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 100 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Germie Bernard is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Side by side

Bo Nix is a quarterback and Germie Bernard a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Bo Nix is off in Week 10 and Germie Bernard in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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

Drop or keep

Should I drop Germie Bernard for Bo Nix?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Bo Nix projects 146 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (16.2 a game over 9 games), Germie Bernard 50 (5.5 a game over 9 games).
Should I drop Bo Nix for Germie Bernard?
No. Keep Bo Nix: he projects 146 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (16.2 a game over 9 games), Germie Bernard 50 (5.5 a game over 9 games).

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