Start Germie Bernard or Laquon Treadwell? Week 7

Our Week 7 call

Start Germie Bernard over Laquon Treadwell in Week 7.

Market-based projections have Germie Bernard at 12.0 points and Laquon Treadwell at 4.7, a gap of 7.3. No player market is posted for Laquon Treadwell this week yet, so his 4.7 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 4 and 5 (5.5 and 4.0); the call is rebuilt when his market posts.

What the market projects

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 54 receiving yards, 4-5 receptions and 0.3 touchdowns (6, 6 and 8 market sources).

No Week 7 player market is posted for Laquon Treadwell yet. His market-based projections were 5.5 and 4.0 points in Weeks 4 and 5, an average of 4.7, which stands in until his Week 7 market posts.

That puts Germie Bernard 7.3 points ahead of Laquon Treadwell on these projections.

Week 7 matchups

Laquon Treadwell and IND visit MIN on Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.

MIN allowed 27.1 fantasy points a game to WRs this season over 5 games, the 5th fewest in the league.

Receivers caught passes for 133 yards and 0.6 touchdowns a game against MIN.

Injury status

Germie Bernard is not on the injury report.

Laquon Treadwell 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 6, Laquon Treadwell played 72 percent of IND snaps, drew 12 percent of the targets, earned 18 percent of the air yards and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

Laquon Treadwell, Week 3 against HOU: 56 of 71 snaps, 1 target and 1 catch for 20 yards.

Laquon Treadwell, Week 4 against WAS: 56 of 66 snaps, 6 targets and 5 catches for 42 yards.

Laquon Treadwell, Week 5 against PIT: 57 of 71 snaps, 8 targets and 2 catches for 34 yards.

Laquon Treadwell, Week 6 against TEN: 5 targets and 2 catches for 21 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025, Laquon Treadwell played 10 games for IND.

He caught 0 of 0 targets for 0 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets and 0 air yards.

He was on the field for 5 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

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 Brycen Tremayne over Laquon Treadwell.
• Start Laquon Treadwell over Cody White.
• Start Cooper Kupp over Laquon Treadwell.