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Should I start David Njoku or Gavin Bartholomew in Week 7?

Updated Oct 20, 6:11 AM ET.

Start David Njoku: 33 percent of the snaps and 15 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Gavin Bartholomew's 31 percent of the snaps and 8 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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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.

David Njoku

TE · LAC · on bye this week

2025 vs rec yds line 3-9

Overall rank
285

Gavin Bartholomew

TE · MIN · bye 6

2026 vs anytime td line 0-5

Overall rank
288

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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 David Njoku, and the board ranks him 285th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Gavin Bartholomew, and the board ranks him 288th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for David Njoku, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

No season market is posted for Gavin Bartholomew, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.

This season so far

Through Week 2, David Njoku has been on the field for 33 percent of LAC snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 16 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 7 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 6.6 air yards.

In Week 1 against ARI he caught 5 of 5 targets for 58 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against LV he caught 1 of 3 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 David Njoku played 12 games and scored 86.3 PPR points, 7.2 a game, finishing TE34.

He caught 33 of 48 targets for 293 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 4.0 targets a game, a 69 percent catch rate and 8.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 64 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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

Head to head

This season David Njoku holds the bigger snap share, 33 percent against 31 percent.

This season David Njoku holds the bigger target share, 15 percent against 8 percent.

Byes and availability

David Njoku is off in Week 7 and Gavin Bartholomew in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

David Njoku is listed as ir on the injury report.

Both players in full

Week 7 on the board

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