Germie Bernard or Ladd McConkey: who should I start?
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 19, 2026 at 11:16 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on Ladd McConkey, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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WR63 · PIT · bye 9
- Books price
- 3.8 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
WR66 · LAC · bye 7
2025 vs rec yds line 5-11
- Overall rank
- 159
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 16
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size242 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Germie Bernard: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 155th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 185.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Ladd McConkey: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 159th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes half PPR: ADP 2; standard: ADP 14; 2QB: ADP 64.
What the sportsbooks price
The player markets price Germie Bernard at 3.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 books. That is the 172nd highest figure of the 183 players the books price.
The books have Ladd McConkey at 2.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 books. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Ladd McConkey's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 1
Through Week 1, Germie Bernard has been on the field for 4 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 10 third down targets and seen 0 of its 4 two minute targets.
In Week 1 against ATL he was not given the ball.
Through Week 1, Ladd McConkey has been on the field for 49 percent of LAC snaps, drawn 26 percent of the targets and had 20 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 6 third down targets and seen 0 of its 1 two minute target.
His 7 targets have averaged 13.9 air yards.
In Week 1 against ARI he caught 5 of 7 targets for 82 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
Germie Bernard is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
In 2025 Ladd McConkey played 16 games and scored 180.9 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing WR30.
He caught 66 of 106 targets for 789 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.
That came to 6.6 targets a game, a 62 percent catch rate and 12.0 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
This season Ladd McConkey holds the bigger snap share, 49 percent against 4 percent.
This season Ladd McConkey holds the bigger target share, 26 percent against 0 percent.
Byes and availability
Germie Bernard is off in Week 9 and Ladd McConkey in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
Ladd McConkey is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Ladd McConkey is only part priced, so the books' half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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