Colston Loveland or Makai Lemon: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Colston Loveland at 9.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 103rd highest figure of the 217 players the market prices.

The player markets price Makai Lemon at 8.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 114th highest figure of the 217 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Colston Loveland: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 95th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 20; 2QB: ADP 42.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Makai Lemon: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 98th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Colston Loveland has been on the field for 87 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 1 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have averaged 5.7 air yards.

In Week 2 against MIN he caught 1 of 3 targets for 3 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against PHI he caught 4 of 4 targets for 31 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NYJ he caught 6 of 9 targets for 57 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Colston Loveland played 16 games and scored 165.1 PPR points, 10.3 a game, finishing TE12.

He caught 58 of 82 targets for 713 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 5.1 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 12.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 63 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Makai Lemon is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Side by side

Colston Loveland is a tight end and Makai Lemon a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 10, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

1.2 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market price when it does.