Makai Lemon (WR, Philadelphia Eagles) — 2026 fantasy outlook, updated Jul 2, 2026.
Based on verified 2025 play-by-play data (nflverse); Half-PPR scoring.
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.
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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.
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