WR PIT Week 5 · PPR

Start or sit Germie Bernard?

The verdict comes from our weekly projection model: last season's opportunity-based xFP/g shrunk toward the position mean, then adjusted for role, injury status, the opponent's fantasy points allowed and the Vegas game total vs the league average.

Sit

WR54 — below the ~34 started in 12-team leagues.

Sit call: Germie Bernard projects for 6.1 PPR points this week, ranked #54 among WRs by our projection model. vs IND is a soft matchup for WRs — the model applies a +14% swing to his projection. Vegas posts the total at 47.5 — 101% of the 47.2 league average for week 5.

Season projection table

PPR · weeks 1–18

Germie Bernard projected PPR points by week, weeks 1 through 18
Wk Proj (PPR)
1 5.5
2 5.1
3 4.6
4 4.6
5 this week 6.1
6 5.4
7 5.0
8 4.9
9 —
10 4.6
11 4.8
12 4.5
13 4.7
14 5.4
15 6.1
16 4.9
17 6.0
18 6.1

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