Too close to call: Germie Bernard (11.4) and Jaylen Waddle (11.4) project within 0.0 PPR points of each other in Week 8, and Germie Bernard faces the 14th-softest defense against WRs.
Updated Oct 30, 7:29 AM ET
| Germie Bernard WR · PIT | Jaylen Waddle WR · DEN | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 8, avg of sources) | 11.4 | 11.4 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 10.3 | 10.7 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 12.8 | 12.4 |
| StatChasers projection | 12.5 (WR22) | — |
| Opponent | vs CLE | vs KC |
| Opponent vs. position | 14th-softest (31.8 pts/g allowed) | 2nd-toughest (23.7 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 26% target share (last 3) | 27% target share (last 3) |
| Position | WR | WR |
| Our call | START · WR2 | START · WR3 |
Settle every start/sit call with projections, matchup, recent usage and floor-versus-ceiling for your exact scoring settings.
It is a coin flip. Germie Bernard projects for 11.4 PPR points and Jaylen Waddle for 11.4, within 0.0 of each other.
Break the tie with the floor if you are favored this week, and with the ceiling if you need a big game to win.
They are projected almost level: 11.4 PPR points for Germie Bernard and 11.4 for Jaylen Waddle.
The sources range from 10.3 to 12.8 for Bernard and from 10.7 to 12.4 for Waddle. Either result is well inside both ranges.
Jaylen Waddle is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Waddle at 10.7 PPR points, against 10.3 for Germie Bernard.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
Germie Bernard has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Bernard at 12.8 PPR points, against 12.4 for Jaylen Waddle.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Germie Bernard plays CLE and Jaylen Waddle plays KC in Week 8.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Bernard faces the 14th-softest defense against WRs and Waddle faces the 2nd-toughest defense against WRs, so Germie Bernard has the softer matchup.
Each projection already accounts for the opponent, so a soft matchup is a tiebreaker, not a reason to bench the higher projection.
Over his recent games Germie Bernard has drawn 26% of his team's targets, and Jaylen Waddle 27% of his team's targets.
Jaylen Waddle has the bigger role, and volume is the steadiest thing a projection rests on.
These numbers are in PPR. Full PPR adds a point per catch, so it helps whichever player sees more targets, which here is Jaylen Waddle.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Germie Bernard nor Jaylen Waddle has an injury designation for Week 8.
Designations change through the week, so check again before kickoff; this page updates with each refresh.
Each figure is the average of the projection sources that carry the player this week: StatChasers, Sleeper, ESPN, numberFire, FFToday and the betting markets (sportsbook player props). Germie Bernard is projected by 5 of them and Jaylen Waddle by 4.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.