Makai Lemon

Philadelphia Eagles · Wide receiverWR3

5′11″, 192 lb · age 22 · USC · 2026 draft, round 1

Week 6 stats

Sun Oct 18, vs CAR: Makai Lemon caught 3 of 6 targets for 19 yards on 81% of snaps.

Stats through week 6; the week 7 projection below. Checked Oct 21, 2026. Full game log.

Makai Lemon has no full prior season to anchor to, so this week’s projection leans on his 5 games of current-season usage alone — treat it as a thinner read than a veteran’s.

Week 7 projection

PPR points

8.0

WR49 this week

Receptions

3.3

Receiving yards

Anytime TD

16%

What a realistic week looks like

The projection is the center of this, not a prediction of one number. Eight weeks in ten he lands between 1 and 6 receptions. The shaded bars are that range. This distribution is calibrated — predicted against realized agrees within 0.012 in every decile across 49,202 checks.

Makai Lemon snap share, game by game

Snap shareTarget share

Role is the most repeatable thing a player has. Snap share reproduces at 0.96 between halves of a season; receptions manage 0.89 and touchdowns 0.56. When these lines move, production follows — not the other way round. Snap share leaders.

Game log

Game	Opp	Snap share	Target share	Tgt	Rec	Rec yds	Car	Rush yds	TD	We said
26 wk7	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.3 projected
26 wk6	CAR	81%	13.6%	6	3	19	0	0	0	3.0 -0.0
26 wk5	JAX	81%	18.9%	7	5	43	0	0	0	3.0 +2.0
26 wk4	LA	74%	24.0%	6	3	27	0	0	0	3.1 -0.1
26 wk3	CHI	70%	16.0%	4	3	29	0	0	0	2.4 +0.6
26 wk2	TEN	63%	2.9%	1	1	14	1	-5	0	—
26 wk1	WAS	64%	18.2%	4	3	-5	0	0	0	—

“We said” is the projection as it was published that week, stored before the game, with the miss beside it. Re-running today’s model on a past week would grade a model that did not exist when the number went out, so those weeks show a dash instead.

Makai Lemon 2026 stats

Through 6 games of 2026, Makai Lemon has 18 catches for 127 receiving yards (3.0 catches and 21.2 yards a game), on 72% of snaps.

His first season in the warehouse, so there is no prior year to compare against and no career arc to draw — the projection leans on the league's rookies rather than on him.

	2026 so far (6 games)
Catches per game	3.0
Receiving yards per game	21.2
Target share	15.6%

The whole Philadelphia Eagles roomEvery pass-catcher ranked by the usage that predicts production

Related players

The rest of the Philadelphia Eagles receiver room, by target share.

Ranked next to him at WR for week 7.

Courtland Sutton WR46 · DEN
Dontayvion Wicks WR47 · PHI
Cooper Kupp WR48 · SEA
Xavier Hutchinson WR50 · HOU
KC Concepcion WR51 · CLE
Rashod Bateman WR52 · BAL

What we have measured about wide receivers

Are players better coming off a bye week?They are slightly worse Do defenses shut down the other team’s best receiver?Barely

Projections are as-of-week with no lookahead · usage from official play-by-play and snap counts · 2026 week 7