Makai Lemon or A.J. Brown: who should I start in Week 5?
Neither man carries a posted season price right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 7, 2026 at 7:31 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on either of them, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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WR73 · PHI · bye 10
2026 vs anytime td line 0-4
- Market price
- 6.7 pts a game Wk 4 price
- Overall rank
- 180
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 16
WR75 · NE · bye 11
2025 vs rec yds line 6-9
- Overall rank
- 191
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 17
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size219 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Makai Lemon: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 180th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on A.J. Brown: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 191st overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 23.
What the player markets price
The market has Makai Lemon at 1.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 14 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
No season market is posted for A.J. Brown, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
Through Week 4, Makai Lemon has been on the field for 67 percent of PHI snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 24 two minute targets.
His 15 targets have averaged 6.0 air yards.
In Week 2 against TEN he carried 1 time for -5 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 14 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against CHI he caught 3 of 4 targets for 29 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against LAR he caught 3 of 6 targets for 27 yards and did not score.
Through Week 1, A.J. Brown has been on the field for 44 percent of NE snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 11 third down targets, had 0 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.
His 4 targets have averaged 4.8 air yards.
In Week 1 against SEA he caught 3 of 4 targets for 26 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
Makai Lemon is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
In 2025 A.J. Brown played 15 games and scored 220.3 PPR points, 14.7 a game, finishing WR11.
He caught 78 of 121 targets for 1003 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.
That came to 8.1 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 12.9 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 91 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
This season Makai Lemon holds the bigger snap share, 67 percent against 44 percent.
This season Makai Lemon holds the bigger target share, 14 percent against 13 percent.
Byes and availability
Makai Lemon is off in Week 10 and A.J. Brown in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
A.J. Brown is listed as ir on the injury report.
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