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Should I start Germie Bernard or Jayden Reed in Week 8?

Updated Nov 3, 12:11 AM ET.

Start Germie Bernard: 92 percent of the snaps and 25 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jayden Reed's 32 percent of the snaps and 12 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.

Germie Bernard

WR · PIT · on bye this week

2026 vs anytime td line 1-7

Market-based projection
10.5 pts a game Wk 8 price
Overall rank
237

Jayden Reed

WR · GB · bye 11

2025 vs anytime td line 1-6

Overall rank
244

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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 Germie Bernard, and the board ranks him 237th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jayden Reed, and the board ranks him 244th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

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

No season market is posted for Jayden Reed, 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 8, Germie Bernard has been on the field for 61 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.

Through Week 2, Jayden Reed has been on the field for 32 percent of GB snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 19 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 12 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 5.6 air yards.

In Week 1 against MIN he caught 3 of 7 targets for 20 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against NYJ he caught 1 of 1 target for 4 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

Germie Bernard is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

In 2025 Jayden Reed played 7 games and scored 48.5 PPR points, 6.9 a game, finishing WR114.

He caught 19 of 22 targets for 207 yards and 1 touchdown, with 3 red zone targets.

That came to 3.1 targets a game, a 86 percent catch rate and 10.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 45 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Head to head

This season Germie Bernard holds the bigger snap share, 61 percent against 32 percent.

This season Germie Bernard holds the bigger target share, 16 percent against 12 percent.

Byes and availability

Germie Bernard is off in Week 9 and Jayden Reed in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Jayden Reed is listed as ir on the injury report.

Both players in full

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