Should I start Kalif Raymond or Germie Bernard in Week 8?

Updated Oct 27, 8:06 PM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.

Start Germie Bernard: 92 percent of the snaps and 25 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Kalif Raymond's 61 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.

Should I drop Germie Bernard for Kalif Raymond?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Kalif Raymond projects 59 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (6.5 a game over 9 games), Germie Bernard 50 (5.5 a game over 9 games).

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

Kalif Raymond

WR14 · CHI · bye 10

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Market-based projection: 5.9 pts a game

Germie Bernard

WR16 · PIT · bye 9

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Market-based projection: 13.0 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank: 39

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The gap

Board size293 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 Kalif Raymond, and the board ranks him 35th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Germie Bernard, and the board ranks him 39th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Kalif Raymond's market-based projection is 5.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 35th highest figure of the 198 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Germie Bernard is 5.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 2 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Kalif Raymond has been on the field for 61 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 10 of the offence's 60 third down targets, had 0 of its 32 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 31 targets have averaged 6.1 air yards.

In Week 5 against GB he carried 1 time for -2 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against ATL he caught 2 of 2 targets for 18 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against NE he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Germie Bernard has been on the field for 61 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 37 targets have averaged 5.7 air yards.

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.

In Week 7 against NO he caught 3 of 5 targets for 27 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Kalif Raymond played 15 games and scored 66.8 PPR points, 4.5 a game, finishing WR94.

He caught 24 of 30 targets for 289 yards and 1 touchdown, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 2.0 targets a game, a 80 percent catch rate and 12.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 38 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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

Head to head

Their snap share this season is the same, 61 percent each.

This season Germie Bernard holds the bigger target share, 15 percent against 14 percent.

Byes and availability

Kalif Raymond is off in Week 10 and Germie Bernard in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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

Drop or keep

Should I drop Germie Bernard for Kalif Raymond?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Kalif Raymond projects 59 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (6.5 a game over 9 games), Germie Bernard 50 (5.5 a game over 9 games).
Should I drop Kalif Raymond for Germie Bernard?
No. Keep Kalif Raymond: he projects 59 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (6.5 a game over 9 games), Germie Bernard 50 (5.5 a game over 9 games).

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