Makai Lemon

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• Week 2Sep 21, 2026

  Makai Lemon — Week 2: One Catch, One Carry, One Tackle

  Lemon's one target was a 14-yard catch on third and eight with 14 seconds left in the first quarter, on the drive that tied the game at 7. His one carry lost 5 yards in the fourth quarter, and he made the tackle at the Philadelphia 10 on Amani Hooker's 92-yard interception return. He had four targets in Week 1, in a 24–20 win over the Titans.

• Week 1Sep 14, 2026

  Makai Lemon — Week 1: Three Catches for Minus Five Yards

  Lemon was thrown to four times in his first regular-season game, the same as Dontayvion Wicks, and caught three for minus five yards — three, minus five and minus three — with no first downs. His four targets were worth minus three point nine expected points, the lowest figure for any Eagle who was thrown to, in a 24–22 win over the Commanders.

• Camp · Aug 31, 2026Aug 31, 2026

  Makai Lemon Camp Update — August 31: A Rusty Debut Starts the On-Ramp

  Makai Lemon finally played — three catches on five targets for three yards in the preseason finale, with one throw sailing through his hands for an interception — after working with the first-team offense at the last camp practice. It was rusty, it came in a game no starter played, and it ended with his name on the fifty-three-man roster.

• Camp · Aug 23, 2026Aug 23, 2026

  Makai Lemon Camp Update — August 23: First Limited Reps Since Early August

  Makai Lemon got off the JUGS machine and into limited participation at both joint practices in Foxborough, his first practice work in weeks. There is still no full session and no game debut, but for the first time since early August the arrow on the rookie points forward.

• Camp · Aug 16, 2026Aug 17, 2026

  Makai Lemon Camp Update — August 16: A JUGS Machine and No Timetable

  Makai Lemon is still not practicing, limited to catching balls off the JUGS machine with no timetable on his hamstring, and he missed the preseason opener. June's one watch item was his first day of camp. He has yet to have one that counts.

• 2026 PreviewJul 2, 2026

  Makai Lemon 2026 Season Preview — what we know, and what nobody does

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  Show notes & transcript

  Philadelphia traded up to take Makai Lemon twentieth overall. The market prices him at pick 92. One of those rooms is wrong, and neither has seen him play a down.

  The record: the Eagles sent Dallas a first and two fourth-rounders to move up three spots for him, per NFL.com in April. He arrives off a Biletnikoff Award season at USC — 79 catches, 11 56, 11 scores, per USC Athletics in December. Before a soft-tissue injury paused his spring, the beat reporting had him with the starters and mainly in the slot, per Heavy, with a training-camp return expected, per Pro Football Rumors.

  The situation changed on June first: A.J. Brown was traded to New England, per NFL.com — and with him went a hundred 21 targets from last season's room, verified. DeVonta Smith and his 77 catches are the anchor now; behind him the depth chart is Lemon, Dontayvion Wicks, and veterans on one-year terms, and the new coordinator, Sean Mannion, is installing his first offense, per the team site. A first-round slot receiver walking into a hundred-plus vacated targets is the setup — and a setup is not a stat line.

  That's the line we won't cross: capital and vacated targets don't predict rookie production at a standard we'd cite. Pick 92 is hope with a hamstring asterisk. We grade what happens — we'll tell you what's real in October.

  Watch: day one of camp, full or limited — and whether the slot job is his alone or a Wicks split when the games count. If he's one of your guys, this show exists for your whole roster — every player, every week, all season.