Start Germie Bernard or Tez Johnson? Week 7

Our Week 7 call

Start Germie Bernard over Tez Johnson in Week 7.

Market-based projections have Germie Bernard at 12.0 points and Tez Johnson at 2.8, a gap of 9.2. No player market is posted for Tez Johnson this week yet, so his 2.8 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 4 and 5 (2.0 and 3.6); 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 (7, 7 and 8 market sources).

No Week 7 player market is posted for Tez Johnson yet. His market-based projections were 2.0 and 3.6 points in Weeks 4 and 5, an average of 2.8, which stands in until his Week 7 market posts.

The market-based projection for Tez Johnson is 0.1 touchdowns (3 market sources).

That puts Germie Bernard 9.2 points ahead of Tez Johnson on these projections.

Injury status

Germie Bernard is not on the injury report.

Tez Johnson is not on the injury report.

Usage before Week 7

Through Week 6, Germie Bernard played 57 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: 74 of 79 snaps, 12 targets and 11 catches for 87 yards, 1 touchdown.

Through Week 6, Tez Johnson played 34 percent of TB snaps, drew 7 percent of the targets, earned 18 percent of the air yards and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

Tez Johnson, Week 3 against MIN: 16 of 69 snaps, 2 targets and 1 catch for 8 yards.

Tez Johnson, Week 4 against GB: 35 of 64 snaps, 1 carry for 10 yards, 2 targets and 2 catches for 17 yards.

Tez Johnson, Week 5 against DAL: 28 of 72 snaps, 1 target and 1 catch for 64 yards.

Tez Johnson, Week 6 against PIT: 25 of 74 snaps, 3 targets and 2 catches for 7 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025, Tez Johnson played 16 games for TB and scored 92.4 PPR points, 5.8 a game, finishing WR67.

He caught 28 of 44 targets for 322 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets and 212 air yards.

He was on the field for 47 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 Tez Johnson over Bo Melton.
• Start Tez Johnson over Calvin Ridley.
• Start Elic Ayomanor over Tez Johnson.