Should I start Germie Bernard or Tez Johnson in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 11:01 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Week 7 verdict
Start Germie Bernard over Tez Johnson

- Market projects
- 12.1
- 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
- 2.8
- recent weeks avg
- CAR D vs WR
- 29.4
- 8th fewest to WRs (2026)
- Snap share
- 34%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 7%
- Through Week 6
Start Germie Bernard: 75 percent of the snaps and 20 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Tez Johnson's 42 percent of the snaps and 7 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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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
WR · TB · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-6
- Overall rank
- not on the board
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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.
Our board does not carry Tez Johnson at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
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.
No season market is posted for Tez Johnson, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
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, Tez Johnson has been on the field for 34 percent of TB snaps, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 41 two minute targets.
His 13 targets have averaged 20.3 air yards.
In Week 4 against GB he carried 1 time for 10 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 17 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against DAL he caught 1 of 1 target for 64 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against PIT he caught 2 of 3 targets for 7 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 Tez Johnson played 16 games and scored 92.4 PPR points, 5.8 a game, finishing WR67.
He caught 28 of 44 targets for 322 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.
That came to 2.8 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 12 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 47 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
This season Germie Bernard holds the bigger snap share, 57 percent against 34 percent.
This season Germie Bernard holds the bigger target share, 15 percent against 7 percent.
Byes and availability
Germie Bernard is off in Week 9. No bye is listed for Tez Johnson.
What would change the answer
Tez Johnson has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
Both players in full
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