The Week 5 Dynasty Rookie Report: Bernard, Washington, Cameron

I wanna start with probably the most notable positive rookie performance that we had in week five here with Jeremy Bernard.

Bernard's gonna be a hot name on redraft waiver wires this week, is my guess.

He is a hot name in the Dynasty streets.

Of course, was an early round two, uh, rookie pick that people had at least some hopes for.

I know I was somewhat into the profile.

I thought it was a bit easier to make excuses for why he didn't have overwhelmingly amazing age-adjusted production, uh, based on some of the target competition he'd faced throughout his college career relative to other receivers in this class.

So definitely interesting to see him pop up this early.

Uh, just a week ago, Jacob and I were a little bit bearish on him and kind of waiting to see if he would overtake Roman Wilson, but that did immediately happen in week five.

He must have heard us, so Jacob, give us kind of your take, your outlook here on Jeremy Bernard in the near term, and do you believe that he can kind of maintain a full-time role that he seems to have just won in this Steelers offense?

Yeah, it's been kind of an interesting season for him where we've now seen this play out in two games where he's had a hard time earning routes ahead of Roman Wilson and DK Metcalf and Michael Pittman, but he has had a very easy time earning targets over those guys when he actually plays.

We saw Pittman miss in week two.

Bernard was heavily involved in that game.

They play almost entirely 11 personnel in passing plays, so as long as you're one of the three starting receivers, everyone's running more or less the same number of routes, and he was able to earn a bunch of targets back then.

Um, he w- I felt like was really building momentum until he had that rep where he basically volleyed a screen pass directly into a defender's arms.

That seemed to set him back, and then Michael Pittman came back to play uselessly through injury as Michael Pittman does.

I respect him.

He's a very tough person.

He has a long history of playing through injuries that render him completely ineffective.

Um, that happened for a couple of weeks as he's dealing with plantar fasciitis.

He then got placed on short-term IR, so now we have a four-week stretch where instead of being kind of trapped behind Roman Wilson, he gets to play next to Wilson and next to Metcalf.

Really a fantastic matchup for him, I will say, this week.

The Colts, uh, people, like, love to make a lot of fun of Sauce Gardner.

I get it.

It was a ridiculous trade, all that.

Um, o- opposing offenses, if you look at how they play the Colts, they don't, I don't think, think Sauce Gardner's quite as much of a joke as Twitter does.