Start Germie Bernard or Elic Ayomanor? Week 7

Our Week 7 call

Start Germie Bernard over Elic Ayomanor in Week 7.

Market-based projections have Germie Bernard at 12.0 points and Elic Ayomanor at 3.8, a gap of 8.2. No player market is posted for Elic Ayomanor this week yet, so his 3.8 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 4 and 5 (3.8 and 3.8); the call is rebuilt when his market posts.

What the market projects

No Week 7 player market is posted for Elic Ayomanor yet. His market-based projections were 3.8 and 3.8 points in Weeks 4 and 5, an average of 3.8, which stands in until his Week 7 market posts.

Player markets imply 12.0 fantasy points for Germie Bernard, with 100 percent of the markets a WR needs posted.

The market-based projection for Germie Bernard is 53 receiving yards, 4-5 receptions and 0.4 touchdowns (5, 5 and 6 market sources).

That puts Germie Bernard 8.2 points ahead of Elic Ayomanor on these projections.

Injury status

Elic Ayomanor is not on the injury report.

Germie Bernard is not on the injury report.

Usage before Week 7

Through Week 6, Elic Ayomanor played 60 percent of TEN snaps, drew 8 percent of the targets, earned 13 percent of the air yards and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

Elic Ayomanor, Week 3 against NYG: 48 of 60 snaps, 3 targets and 1 catch for 11 yards.

Elic Ayomanor, Week 4 against BAL: 40 of 64 snaps, 1 target and 1 catch for 22 yards.

Elic Ayomanor, Week 5 against HOU: 33 of 63 snaps, 2 targets and 1 catch for 17 yards.

Elic Ayomanor, Week 6 against IND: 2 targets and 1 catch for 3 yards.

Through Week 6, Germie Bernard played 48 percent of PIT snaps, drew 15 percent of the targets, earned 9 percent of the air yards and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.

Germie Bernard, Week 3 against CIN: 17 of 62 snaps, 1 target and 1 catch for 14 yards.

Germie Bernard, Week 4 against CLE: 29 of 72 snaps, 2 targets and 2 catches for 11 yards.

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: 12 targets and 11 catches for 87 yards, 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025, Elic Ayomanor played 16 games for TEN and scored 116.5 PPR points, 7.3 a game, finishing WR55.

He caught 41 of 89 targets for 515 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets and 400 air yards.

He was on the field for 79 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

Their other Week 7 calls

• Start Cody White over Elic Ayomanor.
• Start Darius Cooper over Elic Ayomanor.
• Start Darnell Mooney over Elic Ayomanor.
• Start A.J. Brown over Germie Bernard.
• Start Germie Bernard over Carnell Tate.
• Start Chris Olave over Germie Bernard.