Giovani Bernard Fantasy Football Profile, News and Stats

Giovani Bernard
RB
, Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Age: 30
Weight: 206 lbs
Height: 5' 9"

ADP: 191
Depth Chart Ranking: 3

Pts	RuYds	RuTD	Rec	RecYds
111	416	3	47	355

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Bucs sign RB Giovani Bernard to a one-year deal

Tom Pelissero

Apr 12 · 4:17 PM EDT

Veteran RB Giovani Bernard is signing a one-year deal with the #Bucs, per source.

Tom Brady and Bruce Arians both personally recruited Bernard, one of the NFL’s best receiving backs, after his release from Cincinnati. Another weapon for Brady and the Super Bowl champs.

Fantasy Impact:

It's been a while since we've had a fantasy-relevant signing, but this one qualifies. Tom Brady has potentially found his James White 2.0. Bernard is a good pass-catcher, so he'll eat into Leonard Fournette and Ronald Jones's snaps on third down. This backfield is going to be tough to predict again in 2021.

Scouting report

by Jordan Heck

· Jul 18 · 10:50 AM EDT

TB RB Giovani Bernard - 2021 Fantasy Football Outlook

Fantasy Upside
Giovani Bernard joins a Bucs offense that lacked a receiving threat at running back a year ago. Ronald Jones, Leonard Fournette and LeSean McCoy combined for 79 total receptions last season, so there’s certainly production to be had in this role. Bernard has been a receiving threat for Cincinnati since 2013 and had a productive season in 2020 with 771 scrimmage yards.

Fantasy Downside
Bernard is not only joining a crowded backfield with Jones and Fournette but a crowded offense in general. He’s playing alongside Mike Evans, Chris Godwin, Antonio Brown, Rob Gronkowski, O.J. Howard and more. It’ll be tough for him to find a role large enough to make him a consistent producer every week.

2021 Bottom Line
When the Bucs brought Bernard on, he gained a lot of James White comparisons. But don’t expect that kind of production from Bernard. White saw 218 targets in his last two seasons with Brady. There’s no way Bernard gets 100+ targets in this Bucs offense. Bernard will offer little as an actual runner, so he’s really only valuable in PPR or half-PPR formats. And even then, he’s barely in the top 50. He’ll have more appeal if there’s an injury, but for now, he’s a really low-end RB3.

2021 Strength of Schedule - TB

W1	W2	W3	W4	W5	W6	W7	W8	W9	W10	W11	W12	W13	W14	W15	W16	W17
26 DAL	3 ATL	5 @LAR	21 @NE	11 MIA	9 @PHI	4 CHI	2 @NO	BYE	7 @WAS	18 NYG	10 @IND	3 @ATL	20 BUF	2 NO	15 @CAR	14 @NYJ

Schedule difficulty based on schedule-adjusted, positional defensive ranking. Top DEF = 1, bottom DEF = 32.

Game Stats


Week	Opp	RuAtt	RuYds	RuTD	Fum	YPC	Rec	RecYds	RecTD	Tgts	YPR	STD	PPR	Snaps	%
1	LAC	1	7	0	0	7.00	4	21	0	5	5.25	2.8	6.8	20/68	29.4%
2	@CLE	1	3	0	0	3.00	5	22	0	7	4.40	2.5	7.5	42/92	45.7%
3	@PHI	0	0	0	0	0.00	3	55	0	3	18.33	5.5	8.5	18/72	25.0%
4	JAX	2	19	0	0	9.50	0	0	0	0	0.00	1.9	1.9	13/75	17.3%
5	@BAL	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	4	0	2	4.00	0.4	1.4	16/67	23.9%
6	@IND	8	15	1	0	1.88	3	13	0	3	4.33	8.8	11.8	35/73	47.9%
7	CLE	13	37	0	0	2.85	5	59	1	5	11.80	15.6	20.6	57/75	76.0%
8	TEN	15	62	1	0	4.13	3	16	1	4	5.33	19.8	22.8	47/73	64.4%
9	BYE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
10	@PIT	8	30	0	0	3.75	4	17	0	7	4.25	4.7	8.7	44/65	67.7%
11	@WAS	9	18	0	0	2.00	4	37	0	5	9.25	5.5	9.5	37/68	54.4%
12	NYG	8	32	0	0	4.00	2	17	0	3	8.50	4.9	6.9	38/49	77.6%
13	@MIA	12	30	0	0	2.50	2	-1	0	2	-0.50	2.9	4.9	35/56	62.5%
14	DAL	3	8	0	1	2.67	3	15	0	3	5.00	0.3	3.3	17/72	23.6%
15	PIT	25	83	1	0	3.32	1	14	1	1	14.00	21.7	22.7	38/56	67.9%
16	@HOU	16	65	0	0	4.06	7	66	0	8	9.43	13.1	20.1	44/76	57.9%
17	BAL	3	7	0	0	2.33	0	0	0	1	0.00	0.7	0.7	16/43	37.2%
Per game		7.75	26.00	0.19	0.06	3.35	2.94	22.19	0.19	3.69	7.55	6.94	9.88	32.31/67.50	48.65%
Totals		124	416	3	1	3.35	47	355	3	59	7.55	111.1	158.1	517/1080	48.65%