Should I start Germie Bernard or Laquon Treadwell in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 10:01 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Week 7 verdict
Start Germie Bernard over Laquon Treadwell

- Market projects
- 12.0
- fantasy pts
- NO D vs WR
- 31.8
- 16th most to WRs (2026)
- Snap share
- 57%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 15%
- Through Week 6

- Market projects
- 4.7
- recent weeks avg
- MIN D vs WR
- 27.1
- 5th fewest to WRs (2026)
- Snap share
- 76%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 12%
- Through Week 6
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
- Board size299 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 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
Week 7 on the board
- Is Germie Bernard playing Week 7?
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