Start Germie Bernard or Jacob Cowing? Week 7

Our Week 7 call

Start Germie Bernard over Jacob Cowing in Week 7.

Market-based projections have Germie Bernard at 12.1 points and Jacob Cowing at 3.0, a gap of 9.1. No player market is posted for Jacob Cowing this week yet, so his 3.0 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 4 and 6 (2.0 and 4.0); the call is rebuilt when his market posts.

What the market projects

Player markets imply 12.1 fantasy points for Germie Bernard, with 100 percent of the markets a WR needs posted.

The market-based projection for Germie Bernard is 54 receiving yards, 4-5 receptions and 0.4 touchdowns (6, 6 and 8 market sources).

No Week 7 player market is posted for Jacob Cowing yet. His market-based projections were 2.0 and 4.0 points in Weeks 4 and 6, an average of 3.0, which stands in until his Week 7 market posts.

That puts Germie Bernard 9.1 points ahead of Jacob Cowing on these projections.

Week 7 matchups

Jacob Cowing and SF visit ATL on Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.

ATL allowed 37.7 fantasy points a game to WRs this season over 5 games, the 6th most in the league.

Receivers caught passes for 181 yards and 0.8 touchdowns a game against ATL.

Injury status

Germie Bernard is not on the injury report.

Jacob Cowing is not on the injury report.

Usage before Week 7

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.

Through Week 5, Jacob Cowing played 31 percent of SF snaps, drew 4 percent of the targets, earned 7 percent of the air yards and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

Jacob Cowing, Week 2 against MIA: 24 of 52 snaps, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.

Jacob Cowing, Week 3 against ARI: 17 of 54 snaps, 2 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.

Jacob Cowing, Week 4 against DEN: 21 of 66 snaps, 1 carry for 2 yards, 1 target and 0 catches for 0 yards.

Jacob Cowing, Week 5 against SEA: 26 of 60 snaps, 2 targets and 1 catch for 9 yards.

Their other Week 7 calls

• Start A.J. Brown over Germie Bernard.
• Start Germie Bernard over Carnell Tate.
• Start Chris Olave over Germie Bernard.
• Start Jacob Cowing over Bo Melton.
• Start Jacob Cowing over Calvin Ridley.
• Start Cody White over Jacob Cowing.