Should I start Caleb Douglas or Makai Lemon in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 6:11 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Week 9 verdict
Start Makai Lemon over Caleb Douglas
- Market projects
- 8.6
- recent weeks avg
- NYG D vs WR
- 31.3
- 15th most to WRs (2026)
- Snap share
- 78%
- Through Week 8
- Target share
- 18%
- Through Week 8
- Market projects
- 8.3
- fantasy pts
- DET D vs WR
- 37.7
- 3rd most to WRs (2026)
- Snap share
- 82%
- Through Week 8
- Target share
- 19%
- Through Week 8
Start Makai Lemon: 91 percent of the snaps and 21 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Caleb Douglas's 80 percent of the snaps and 16 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
WR26 · MIA · bye 6
- Market-based projection
- 9.3 pts a game
WR52 · PHI · bye 10
2026 vs anytime td line 1-7
- Market-based projection
- 10.7 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 130
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The gap
- Board size306 draftable players
Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Caleb Douglas, and the board ranks him 50th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Makai Lemon, and the board ranks him 130th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Caleb Douglas's market-based projection is 9.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 70th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Makai Lemon is 2.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Makai Lemon's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Caleb Douglas has been on the field for 82 percent of MIA snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 8 of the offence's 30 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 14 two minute targets.
His 19 targets have averaged 12.3 air yards.
In Week 2 against SF he caught 2 of 3 targets for 19 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against NYJ he caught 2 of 3 targets for 70 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
In Week 8 against NE he caught 4 of 6 targets for 43 yards and did not score.
Through Week 8, Makai Lemon has been on the field for 78 percent of PHI snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 10 of the offence's 78 third down targets, had 1 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 46 two minute targets.
His 45 targets have averaged 5.9 air yards.
In Week 6 against CAR he caught 3 of 6 targets for 19 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against DAL he caught 7 of 8 targets for 67 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 8 against WAS he caught 6 of 9 targets for 57 yards and did not score.
Their last full seasons
Caleb Douglas is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Makai Lemon is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Head to head
This season Caleb Douglas holds the bigger snap share, 82 percent against 78 percent.
This season Caleb Douglas holds the bigger target share, 19 percent against 18 percent.
Byes and availability
Caleb Douglas is off in Week 6 and Makai Lemon in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Makai Lemon has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
Week 9 on the board
- Is Caleb Douglas playing Week 9?
- Is Makai Lemon playing Week 9?
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- Week 9 WR rankings
- Week 9 fantasy rankings
- Week 9 start or sit
- Week 9 waiver wire
- Week 9 trade value chart
- Trade deadline buy low, sell high
- Fantasy football rankings
- Start 'em sit 'em Week 9
- Waiver wire pickups
- Fantasy sleepers
- Rest of season rankings
- Week 9 kicker rankings
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