Should I start Tee Higgins or Germie Bernard in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tee Higgins, and the board ranks him 18th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Germie Bernard, and the board ranks him 61st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Tee Higgins's market-based projection is 14.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 30th highest figure of the 200 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, Tee Higgins has been on the field for 78 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 12 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 0 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 36 two minute targets.

His 50 targets have averaged 14.2 air yards.

In Week 4 against JAX he caught 11 of 16 targets for 157 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against MIA he caught 2 of 4 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against BAL he caught 6 of 7 targets for 148 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Tee Higgins played 15 games and scored 211.6 PPR points, 14.1 a game, finishing WR15.

He caught 59 of 98 targets for 846 yards and 11 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 6-7 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 14.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 80 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 Tee Higgins holds the bigger snap share, 78 percent against 61 percent.

This season Tee Higgins holds the bigger target share, 23 percent against 15 percent.

Byes and availability

Tee Higgins is off in Week 6 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.