Should I start Makai Lemon or Devontez Walker in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Makai Lemon, and the board ranks him 187th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Devontez Walker, and the board ranks him 190th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Makai Lemon is 1.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Devontez Walker's market-based projection is 1.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 180th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

Makai Lemon's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Makai Lemon has been on the field for 76 percent of PHI snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 69 third down targets, had 1 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 37 two minute targets.

His 36 targets have averaged 5.1 air yards.

In Week 5 against JAX he caught 5 of 7 targets for 43 yards and did not score.

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.

Through Week 7, Devontez Walker has been on the field for 47 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 0 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 40 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have averaged 23.6 air yards.

In Week 5 against ATL he caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against CLE he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CIN he was not given the ball.

Their 2025 seasons

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

In 2025 Devontez Walker played 12 games and scored 37.6 PPR points, 3.1 a game, finishing WR124.

He caught 6 of 8 targets for 136 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 1 red zone target.

That came to 0.7 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 22.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 20 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Head to head

This season Makai Lemon holds the bigger snap share, 76 percent against 47 percent.

This season Makai Lemon holds the bigger target share, 16 percent against 5 percent.

Byes and availability

Makai Lemon is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Devontez Walker.

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.