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Should I start Germie Bernard or Laquon Treadwell in Week 7?

Updated Oct 20, 10:01 AM ET.

Week 7 verdict

WR · PIT · at NO

Market projects
12.0
fantasy pts
NO D vs WR
31.8
16th most to WRs (2026)
Upside
High
92 of 100 at WR
Snap share
57%
Through Week 6
Target share
15%
Through Week 6

WR · IND · at MIN

Market projects
4.7
recent weeks avg
MIN D vs WR
27.1
5th fewest to WRs (2026)
Upside
Limited
15 of 100 at WR
Snap share
76%
Through Week 6
Target share
12%
Through Week 6
Start Bernard or Treadwell? The full Week 7 breakdown

Start Germie Bernard over Laquon Treadwell in Week 7. Treadwell faces MIN, which allows the 5th fewest fantasy points to WRs.

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

WR11 · PIT · bye 9

2026 vs anytime td line 1-5

Market-based projection
12.0 pts a game

WR74 · IND · bye 13

2026 vs anytime td line 0-6

Market-based projection
6.6 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
169

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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 20th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Laquon Treadwell, and the board ranks him 169th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Germie Bernard's market-based projection is 12.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 23rd highest figure of the 181 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Laquon Treadwell is 0.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Germie Bernard has been on the field for 57 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 6, Laquon Treadwell has been on the field for 76 percent of IND snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 0 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 13.2 air yards.

In Week 4 against WAS he caught 5 of 6 targets for 42 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against PIT he caught 2 of 8 targets for 34 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against TEN he caught 2 of 5 targets for 21 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 Laquon Treadwell played 10 games.

He caught 0 of 0 targets for 0 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.

He was on the field for 5 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Head to head

This season Laquon Treadwell holds the bigger snap share, 76 percent against 57 percent.

This season Germie Bernard holds the bigger target share, 15 percent against 12 percent.

Byes and availability

Germie Bernard is off in Week 9 and Laquon Treadwell in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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

Both players in full

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