Start Germie Bernard or Tim Patrick? Week 7

Our Week 7 call

Start Germie Bernard over Tim Patrick in Week 7.

Market-based projections have Germie Bernard at 12.0 points and Tim Patrick at 3.2, a gap of 8.8. No player market is posted for Tim Patrick this week yet, so his 3.2 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 5 and 6 (2.4 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 (11, 9 and 12 market sources).

No Week 7 player market is posted for Tim Patrick yet. His market-based projections were 2.4 and 4.0 points in Weeks 5 and 6, an average of 3.2, which stands in until his Week 7 market posts.

That puts Germie Bernard 8.8 points ahead of Tim Patrick on these projections.

Week 7 matchups

Germie Bernard and PIT visit NO on Sunday at 9:30 AM ET.

NO allowed 31.8 fantasy points a game to WRs this season over 6 games, the 16th most in the league.

Receivers caught passes for 150 yards and a touchdown a game against NO.

Tim Patrick and NYJ host MIA on Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.

MIA allowed 23.2 fantasy points a game to WRs this season over 5 games, the 3rd fewest in the league.

Receivers caught passes for 110 yards and 0.4 touchdowns a game against MIA.

By points allowed to the position, Germie Bernard has the softer matchup.

Injury status

Germie Bernard is not on the injury report.

Tim Patrick 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, Tim Patrick played 82 percent of NYJ snaps, drew 10 percent of the targets, earned 11 percent of the air yards and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

Tim Patrick, Week 5 against CLE: 65 of 70 snaps, 3 targets and 2 catches for 26 yards.

Tim Patrick, Week 6 against NE: 43 of 62 snaps, 3 targets and 1 catch for 15 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025, Tim Patrick played 16 games for JAX and scored 51.7 PPR points, 3.2 a game, finishing WR107.

He caught 15 of 24 targets for 187 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets and 133 air yards.

He was on the field for 31 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

Tim Patrick, Week 18 of 2025 against TEN: 1 target and 1 catch for 4 yards, 1.4 PPR points.

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 Tim Patrick over Calvin Ridley.
• Start Cody White over Tim Patrick.
• Start Darnell Mooney over Tim Patrick.