Germie Bernard or Zay Flowers: who to draft first
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 19, 2026 at 10:16 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on Zay Flowers, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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WR63 · PIT · bye 9
- Books price
- 3.8 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
WR65 · BAL · bye 13
2025 vs rec yds line 9-8
- Overall rank
- 158
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 17
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size242 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Germie Bernard: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 155th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 185.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Zay Flowers: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 158th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 42.
What the sportsbooks price
The player markets price Germie Bernard at 3.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 books. That is the 172nd highest figure of the 182 players the books price.
The books have Zay Flowers at 2.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 books. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Zay Flowers's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 1
Through Week 1, Germie Bernard has been on the field for 4 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 10 third down targets and seen 0 of its 4 two minute targets.
In Week 1 against ATL he was not given the ball.
Through Week 1, Zay Flowers has been on the field for 29 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 25 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 6 third down targets, had 0 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 4 two minute targets.
His 6 targets have averaged 15.2 air yards.
In Week 1 against IND he caught 5 of 6 targets for 150 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
Germie Bernard is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
In 2025 Zay Flowers played 17 games and scored 243.3 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing WR7.
He caught 86 of 118 targets for 1211 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.
That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 14.1 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 86 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
This season Zay Flowers holds the bigger snap share, 29 percent against 4 percent.
This season Zay Flowers holds the bigger target share, 25 percent against 0 percent.
Byes and availability
Germie Bernard is off in Week 9 and Zay Flowers in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.
Zay Flowers is listed as doubtful on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Zay Flowers is only part priced, so the books' half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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