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Should I start Gavin Bartholomew or Josh Oliver in Week 7?

Updated Oct 20, 6:11 AM ET.

Start Josh Oliver: 55 percent of the snaps and 7 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.

Gavin Bartholomew

TE · MIN · bye 6

2026 vs anytime td line 0-5

Overall rank
288

Josh Oliver

TE · MIN · bye 6

2025 vs anytime td line 3-12

Overall rank
292

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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 288th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Oliver, and the board ranks him 292nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

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

No season market is posted for Josh Oliver, 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 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 3, Josh Oliver has been on the field for 55 percent of MIN snaps, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 30 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have averaged 3.6 air yards.

In Week 1 against GB he caught 2 of 4 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against CHI he caught 1 of 1 target for 24 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against TB 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 Josh Oliver played 15 games and scored 55.0 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing TE49.

He caught 15 of 19 targets for 160 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 1.3 targets a game, a 79 percent catch rate and 10.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 46 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Head to head

This season Josh Oliver holds the bigger snap share, 55 percent against 31 percent.

This season Gavin Bartholomew holds the bigger target share, 8 percent against 7 percent.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 6, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

Josh Oliver is listed as ir on the injury report.

Both players in full

Week 7 on the board

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