Should I start Brock Purdy or Germie Bernard in Week 10?

The market-based projections

Brock Purdy's market-based projection is 19.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 10th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

Germie Bernard's market-based projection is 11.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 65th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brock Purdy, and the board ranks him 49th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Germie Bernard, and the board ranks him 51st overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season so far

Through Week 9, Brock Purdy has been on the field for 97 percent of SF snaps, dropped back 261 times and thrown 8.1 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 29 of 261 dropbacks and scrambled 19 times.

In Week 6 against WAS he completed 21 of 29 passes for 264 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 28 yards.

In Week 7 against ATL he completed 27 of 39 passes for 288 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 2 times for 5 yards.

In Week 9 against LV he completed 17 of 25 passes for 232 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 7 times for 40 yards.

Through Week 8, Germie Bernard has been on the field for 64 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 44 two minute targets.

His 42 targets have averaged 5.1 air yards.

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.

In Week 8 against CLE he caught 5 of 5 targets for 30 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Brock Purdy played 9 games and scored 187.4 PPR points, 20.8 a game, finishing QB24.

He threw for 2167 yards on 284 attempts with 20 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 147 yards and 3 touchdowns.

That came to 31.6 attempts a game at 7.6 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 98 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

Brock Purdy 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

Brock Purdy is off in Week 8 and Germie Bernard in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

8.2 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.