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Should I start Gavin Bartholomew or David Martin-Robinson in Week 7?

Updated Oct 24, 1:01 AM ET.

Start Gavin Bartholomew: 31 percent of the snaps and 8 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against David Martin-Robinson's 4 percent of the snaps and 0 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.

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

TE43 · MIN · bye 6

2026 vs anytime td line 0-5

Overall rank
224

TE45 · TEN · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 0-5

Market-based projection
0.4 pts a game

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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 Gavin Bartholomew, and the board ranks him 224th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on David Martin-Robinson, and the board ranks him 226th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Gavin Bartholomew is 0.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 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.

David Martin-Robinson's market-based projection is 0.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 202nd highest figure of the 205 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 5, Gavin Bartholomew has been on the field for 31 percent of MIN snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 32 third down targets and seen 0 of its 10 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 3.4 air yards.

In Week 3 against TB he was not given the ball.

In Week 4 against MIA he caught 1 of 1 target for 4 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against NO he caught 5 of 6 targets for 33 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, David Martin-Robinson has been on the field for 6 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 31 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 19 two minute targets.

In Week 3 against NYG he was not given the ball.

In Week 4 against BAL he was not given the ball.

In Week 6 against IND he was not given the ball.

Their 2025 seasons

The season feed carries no line for Gavin Bartholomew in the last completed season.

In 2025 David Martin-Robinson played 17 games and scored 13.0 PPR points, 0.8 a game, finishing TE85.

He caught 4 of 6 targets for 30 yards and 1 touchdown, with 1 red zone target.

That came to 0.4 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 11 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Head to head

This season Gavin Bartholomew holds the bigger snap share, 31 percent against 6 percent.

This season Gavin Bartholomew holds the bigger target share, 8 percent against 0 percent.

Byes and availability

Gavin Bartholomew is off in Week 6. No bye is listed for David Martin-Robinson.

What would change the answer

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

Both players in full

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