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Should I start Germie Bernard or Tony Pollard in Week 10?

Updated Nov 10, 10:11 PM ET.

Start Germie Bernard: 90 percent of the snaps and 23 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Tony Pollard's 78 percent of the snaps and 81 percent of the carries. 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.

Should I drop Tony Pollard for Germie Bernard?

Not on these numbers alone. Tony Pollard projects 81 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (10.1 a game over 8 games) and Germie Bernard 82 (10.3 a game over 8 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it.

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

Germie Bernard

WR17 · PIT · bye 9

2026 vs anytime td line 1-7

Market-based projection
11.2 pts a game

Tony Pollard

RB37 · TEN · bye 9

2026 vs carries line 6-2

Overall rank
115

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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 28th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tony Pollard, and the board ranks him 115th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Germie Bernard's market-based projection is 11.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 47th highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Tony Pollard is 4.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Germie Bernard has been on the field for 64 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 44 two minute targets.

His 42 targets have averaged 5.1 air yards.

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.

In Week 8 against CLE he caught 5 of 5 targets for 30 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Tony Pollard has been on the field for 62 percent of TEN snaps, taken 71 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 41 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 67 third down targets, had 10 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 21 targets have averaged 0.9 air yards.

In Week 6 against IND he carried 19 times for 76 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CLE he carried 25 times for 129 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 26 yards and scored 3 touchdowns.

In Week 8 against CIN he carried 21 times for 117 yards, caught 3 of 5 targets for 20 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Their 2025 seasons

Germie Bernard is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

In 2025 Tony Pollard played 17 games and scored 185.8 PPR points, 10.9 a game, finishing RB23.

He carried 242 times for 1082 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 33 of 41 targets for 206 more yards.

That came to 14.2 carries a game at 5 yards a carry and 1.9 catches a game.

He was on the field for 62 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

Germie Bernard is a wide receiver and Tony Pollard a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 9, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

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

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop Tony Pollard for Germie Bernard?

    Not on these numbers alone. Tony Pollard projects 81 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (10.1 a game over 8 games) and Germie Bernard 82 (10.3 a game over 8 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it.

  • Should I drop Germie Bernard for Tony Pollard?

    Not on these numbers alone. Germie Bernard projects 82 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (10.3 a game over 8 games) and Tony Pollard 81 (10.1 a game over 8 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it.

Should I drop Tony Pollard?

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