Start Germie Bernard or Tory Horton? Week 7

Our Week 7 call

Start Germie Bernard over Tory Horton in Week 7.

Market-based projections have Germie Bernard at 12.1 points and Tory Horton at 2.6, a gap of 9.5. No player market is posted for Tory Horton this week yet, so his 2.6 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 4 and 5 (2.0 and 3.1); 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 53 receiving yards, 4-5 receptions and 0.4 touchdowns (5, 5 and 6 market sources).

No Week 7 player market is posted for Tory Horton yet. His market-based projections were 2.0 and 3.2 points in Weeks 4 and 5, an average of 2.6, which stands in until his Week 7 market posts.

The market-based projection for Tory Horton is 0.1 touchdowns (5 market sources).

That puts Germie Bernard 9.5 points ahead of Tory Horton on these projections.

Injury status

Germie Bernard is not on the injury report.

Tory Horton 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, Tory Horton played 28 percent of SEA snaps, drew 5 percent of the targets, earned 6 percent of the air yards and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

Tory Horton, Week 3 against WAS: 15 of 67 snaps, 3 targets and 3 catches for 48 yards.

Tory Horton, Week 4 against LAC: 10 of 60 snaps, 1 target and 1 catch for 6 yards, 1 touchdown.

Tory Horton, Week 5 against SF: 11 of 63 snaps, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.

Tory Horton, Week 6 against DEN: 39 of 85 snaps, 5 targets and 1 catch for 13 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025, Tory Horton played 8 games for SEA and scored 65.1 PPR points, 8.1 a game, finishing WR96.

He caught 13 of 22 targets for 161 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets and 128 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 Tory Horton over Bo Melton.
• Start Tory Horton over Calvin Ridley.
• Start Jacob Cowing over Tory Horton.