Should I start Germie Bernard or Braelon Allen in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Germie Bernard, and the board ranks him 60th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Braelon Allen, and the board ranks him 62nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Germie Bernard's market-based projection is 12.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 67th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Braelon Allen is 10.4 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is 60 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Germie Bernard has been on the field for 57 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 34 two minute targets.

His 32 targets have averaged 5.3 air yards.

In Week 4 against CLE he caught 2 of 2 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

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.

Through Week 6, Braelon Allen has been on the field for 61 percent of NYJ snaps, taken 49 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 29 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 1 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have come 0.6 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against CHI he carried 14 times for 59 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 8 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against CLE he carried 24 times for 116 yards, caught 1 of 4 targets for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against NE he carried 17 times for 78 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 26 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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

In 2025 Braelon Allen played 4 games and scored 15.3 PPR points, 3.8 a game, finishing RB100.

He carried 18 times for 76 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 2 of 3 targets for 17 more yards.

That came to 4-5 carries a game at 4.2 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 24 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

Germie Bernard is a wide receiver and Braelon Allen a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Germie Bernard is off in Week 9 and Braelon Allen in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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