Should I start Khalil Shakir or Germie Bernard in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Khalil Shakir, and the board ranks him 72nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Germie Bernard, and the board ranks him 83rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Khalil Shakir's market-based projection is 11.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 35th highest figure of the 78 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Khalil Shakir has been on the field for 64 percent of BUF snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 1 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have averaged 6.5 air yards.

In Week 3 against LAC he caught 1 of 3 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NE he caught 7 of 8 targets for 82 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAR he caught 3 of 3 targets for 80 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Germie Bernard has been on the field for 48 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 20 targets have averaged 7.4 air yards.

In Week 3 against CIN he caught 1 of 1 target for 14 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Khalil Shakir played 16 games and scored 166.4 PPR points, 10.4 a game, finishing WR36.

He caught 72 of 95 targets for 719 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.

That came to 5.9 targets a game, a 76 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 60 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

This season Khalil Shakir holds the bigger snap share, 64 percent against 48 percent.

This season Khalil Shakir holds the bigger target share, 20 percent against 11 percent.

Byes and availability

Khalil Shakir is off in Week 7 and Germie Bernard in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Germie Bernard has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.