Should I start Germie Bernard or Zach Charbonnet in Week 8?

Updated Oct 27, 7:11 PM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.

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Oct 23, 5:13 PM ET: Zach Charbonnet: Questionable to Out (Knee - ACL, Surgery) (Sleeper injury feed)
Oct 22, 2:43 PM ET: Zach Charbonnet: PUP to Questionable (Knee - ACL, Surgery) (Sleeper injury feed)
Oct 22, 2:26 PM ET: Seahawks RB Zach Charbonnet activated off PUP list (ESPN)

Start Germie Bernard: he has been on the field this season, 92 percent of the snaps, and Zach Charbonnet has no snap on record yet. 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 Zach Charbonnet for Germie Bernard?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Germie Bernard projects 41 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (4.6 a game over 9 games), Zach Charbonnet 37 (4.1 a game over 9 games). Zach Charbonnet is listed out.

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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.

Germie Bernard

WR21 · PIT · bye 9

2026 vs anytime td line 1-6

Market-based projection: 13.0 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank: 50

Zach Charbonnet

RB14 · SEA · bye 11

2025 vs carries line 10-6

Market-based projection: 10.1 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank: 51

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The gap

Board size293 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 50th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Zach Charbonnet, and the board ranks him 51st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Germie Bernard is 3.9 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.

The market-based projection for Zach Charbonnet is 5.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 2 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.

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, 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.

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Zach Charbonnet this season.

Their 2025 seasons

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

In 2025 Zach Charbonnet played 16 games and scored 181.4 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB24.

He carried 184 times for 730 yards and 12 touchdowns, and caught 20 of 24 targets for 144 more yards.

That came to 11-12 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 1.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 49 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

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

Byes and availability

Germie Bernard is off in Week 9 and Zach Charbonnet in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Zach Charbonnet is listed as out on the injury report.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Zach Charbonnet for Germie Bernard?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Germie Bernard projects 41 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (4.6 a game over 9 games), Zach Charbonnet 37 (4.1 a game over 9 games). Zach Charbonnet is listed out.
Should I drop Germie Bernard for Zach Charbonnet?
No. Keep Germie Bernard: he projects 41 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (4.6 a game over 9 games), Zach Charbonnet 37 (4.1 a game over 9 games). Zach Charbonnet is listed out.