Should I start Germie Bernard or Jacob Cowing in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 5:51 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Week 7 verdict
Start Germie Bernard over Jacob Cowing
- Market projects
- 12.0
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 57%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 15%
- Through Week 6
- Market projects
- 3.0
- recent weeks avg
- ATL D vs WR
- 37.0
- 6th most to WRs (2026)
- Snap share
- 30%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 3%
- Through Week 6
Start Germie Bernard: 52 percent of the snaps and 12 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jacob Cowing's 36 percent of the snaps and 6 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.
WR10 · PIT · bye 9
2026 vs anytime td line 1-5
- Market-based projection
- 12.0 pts a game
WR · SF · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-6
- Overall rank
- not on the board
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The gap
- Board size297 draftable players
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 Germie Bernard, and the board ranks him 19th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry Jacob Cowing at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
The market-based projections
Germie Bernard's market-based projection is 12.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 16th highest figure of the 160 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Jacob Cowing, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
Through Week 6, Germie Bernard has been on the field for 48 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 9 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 34 two minute targets.
His 32 targets have averaged 5.3 air yards.
In Week 4 against CLE he caught 2 of 2 targets for 11 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against IND he carried 1 time for 4 yards, caught 6 of 9 targets for 80 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against TB he caught 11 of 12 targets for 87 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 5, Jacob Cowing has been on the field for 31 percent of SF snaps, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 21 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have averaged 14.8 air yards.
In Week 3 against ARI he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against DEN he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against SEA he caught 1 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.
Their last full seasons
Germie Bernard is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
The season feed carries no line for Jacob Cowing in the last completed season.
Head to head
This season Germie Bernard holds the bigger snap share, 48 percent against 31 percent.
This season Germie Bernard holds the bigger target share, 15 percent against 4 percent.
Byes and availability
Germie Bernard is off in Week 9. No bye is listed for Jacob Cowing.
What would change the answer
Jacob Cowing has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
Both players in full
Week 7 on the board
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