Start Germie Bernard. Bernard is projected for 12.3 PPR points vs 11.8 for Tucker Kraft, and faces the 16th-softest defense against WRs this week.
Updated Oct 24, 4:47 PM ET
| Germie Bernard WR · PIT | Tucker Kraft TE · GB | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 7, avg of sources) | 12.3 | 11.8 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 11.6 | 11.6 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 13.4 | 12.2 |
| StatChasers projection | — | — |
| Opponent | vs NO | vs DET |
| Opponent vs. position | 16th-softest (31.8 pts/g allowed) | 1st-softest (31.9 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 20% target share (last 3) | 20% target share (last 3) |
| Position | WR | TE |
| Our call | START · WR3 | START · Strong TE1 |
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Start Germie Bernard. Bernard projects for 12.3 PPR points vs NO, against 11.8 for Tucker Kraft vs DET: a 0.5-point edge.
The projection is the average of every source that carries each player this week, and a player listed Out or Doubtful is never the start.
Germie Bernard is projected to score more: 12.3 PPR points to 11.8 for Tucker Kraft.
The sources range from 11.6 to 13.4 for Bernard and from 11.6 to 12.2 for Kraft. The ranges overlap, so Kraft outscoring Bernard is a realistic result.
They share the same floor, 11.6 PPR points.
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 13.4 PPR points, against 12.2 for Tucker Kraft.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Germie Bernard plays NO and Tucker Kraft plays DET in Week 7.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Bernard faces the 16th-softest defense against WRs and Kraft faces the 1st-softest defense against TEs, so Tucker Kraft 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 20% of his team's targets, and Tucker Kraft 20% of his team's targets.
Germie Bernard 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 Germie Bernard.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Germie Bernard nor Tucker Kraft has an injury designation for Week 7.
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 4 of them and Tucker Kraft by 4.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.