Start Germie Bernard or Denzel Boston? Week 10

Our Week 10 call

Start Germie Bernard over Denzel Boston in Week 10.

Market-based projections have Germie Bernard at 11.3 points and Denzel Boston at 9.7, a gap of 1.6. No player market is posted for Denzel Boston this week yet, so his 9.7 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 7, 8 and 9 (10.5, 9.8 and 8.7); the call is rebuilt when his market posts.

What the market projects

No Week 10 player market is posted for Denzel Boston yet. His market-based projections were 10.5, 9.8 and 8.7 points in Weeks 7, 8 and 9, an average of 9.7, which stands in until his Week 10 market posts.

Player markets imply 11.3 fantasy points for Germie Bernard, with 100 percent of the markets a WR needs posted.

The market-based projection for Germie Bernard is 50 receiving yards, 4-5 receptions and 0.3 touchdowns (10, 8 and 11 market sources).

That puts Germie Bernard 1.6 points ahead of Denzel Boston on these projections.

Week 10 matchups

Denzel Boston and CLE host HOU on Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.

HOU allowed 37.3 fantasy points a game to WRs this season over 7 games, the 4th most in the league.

Receivers caught passes for 187 yards and 0.9 touchdowns a game against HOU.

Germie Bernard and PIT visit CIN on Sunday at 8:20 PM ET.

CIN allowed 32.9 fantasy points a game to WRs this season over 7 games, the 15th most in the league.

Receivers caught passes for 142 yards and 1.1 touchdowns a game against CIN.

By points allowed to the position, Denzel Boston has the softer matchup.

Injury status

Denzel Boston is not on the injury report.

Germie Bernard is not on the injury report.

Usage before Week 10

Through Week 9, Denzel Boston played 91 percent of CLE snaps, drew 22 percent of the targets, earned 44 percent of the air yards and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.

Denzel Boston, Week 6 against BAL: 58 of 62 snaps, 5 targets and 1 catch for 15 yards.

Denzel Boston, Week 7 against TEN: 61 of 70 snaps, 8 targets and 3 catches for 27 yards.

Denzel Boston, Week 8 against PIT: 58 of 70 snaps, 11 targets and 6 catches for 37 yards.

Denzel Boston, Week 9 against NO: 68 of 73 snaps, 7 targets and 6 catches for 98 yards.

Through Week 8, Germie Bernard played 64 percent of PIT snaps, drew 16 percent of the targets, earned 10 percent of the air yards and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

Germie Bernard, Week 5 against IND: 55 of 60 snaps, 1 carry for 4 yards, 9 targets and 6 catches for 80 yards.

Germie Bernard, Week 6 against TB: 74 of 79 snaps, 12 targets and 11 catches for 87 yards, 1 touchdown.

Germie Bernard, Week 7 against NO: 58 of 64 snaps, 5 targets and 3 catches for 27 yards.

Germie Bernard, Week 8 against CLE: 50 of 59 snaps, 5 targets and 5 catches for 30 yards.

Their other Week 10 calls

• Start Denzel Boston over Adonai Mitchell.
• Start Denzel Boston over DeMario Douglas.
• Start Denzel Boston over Devaughn Vele.
• Start Germie Bernard over Carnell Tate.
• Start Christian Watson over Germie Bernard.
• Start Germie Bernard over Devaughn Vele.