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Should I start Tommy Tremble or Brock Bowers in Week 8?

Updated Oct 28, 8:21 AM ET.

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Start Brock Bowers: 85 percent of the snaps and 23 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Tommy Tremble's 57 percent of the snaps and 10 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 Tommy Tremble for Brock Bowers?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Brock Bowers projects 149 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (16.5 a game over 9 games), Tommy Tremble 51 (5.1 a game over 10 games).

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

TE13 · CAR · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 1-5

Market-based projection
5.3 pts a game

TE15 · LV · bye 13

2026 vs anytime td line 3-2

Market-based projection
17.3 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank
153

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The gap

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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 Tommy Tremble, and the board ranks him 105th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brock Bowers, and the board ranks him 153rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 17; 2QB: ADP 32.

The market-based projections

Tommy Tremble's market-based projection is 5.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 78th highest figure of the 201 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Brock Bowers is 3.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Tommy Tremble has been on the field for 55 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 21 targets have averaged 5.0 air yards.

In Week 4 against DET he caught 4 of 4 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against PHI he caught 4 of 4 targets for 46 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 7 against TB he caught 1 of 2 targets for 8 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Brock Bowers has been on the field for 83 percent of LV snaps, drawn 26 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 21 of the offence's 54 third down targets, had 1 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 36 two minute targets.

His 51 targets have averaged 10.2 air yards.

In Week 5 against NE he caught 8 of 10 targets for 110 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against BUF he caught 4 of 9 targets for 70 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against LAR he caught 6 of 8 targets for 73 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tommy Tremble played 17 games and scored 63.9 PPR points, 3.8 a game, finishing TE42.

He caught 27 of 37 targets for 249 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 5 red zone targets.

That came to 2.2 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 9.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Brock Bowers played 12 games and scored 176.2 PPR points, 14.7 a game, finishing TE11.

He caught 64 of 86 targets for 680 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 16 red zone targets.

That came to 7.2 targets a game, a 74 percent catch rate and 10.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 85 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Tommy Tremble was available for 5 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Brock Bowers scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Tommy Tremble 3.8, 10.9 a game between them.

Tommy Tremble finished TE42 that year and Brock Bowers TE11.

Brock Bowers had 49 more targets than Tommy Tremble, 86 to 37.

Brock Bowers had 431 more receiving yards than Tommy Tremble, 680 to 249.

This season Brock Bowers holds the bigger snap share, 83 percent against 55 percent.

This season Brock Bowers holds the bigger target share, 26 percent against 10 percent.

Byes and availability

Brock Bowers is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Tommy Tremble.

What would change the answer

Brock Bowers 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 Tommy Tremble for Brock Bowers?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Brock Bowers projects 149 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (16.5 a game over 9 games), Tommy Tremble 51 (5.1 a game over 10 games).

  • Should I drop Brock Bowers for Tommy Tremble?

    No. Keep Brock Bowers: he projects 149 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (16.5 a game over 9 games), Tommy Tremble 51 (5.1 a game over 10 games).

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