Should I start Isaac TeSlaa or Makai Lemon in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Isaac TeSlaa, and the board ranks him 55th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Makai Lemon, and the board ranks him 164th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Isaac TeSlaa's market-based projection is 5.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 56th highest figure of the 184 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Makai Lemon is 1.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 11 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.

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

This season so far

Through Week 5, Isaac TeSlaa has been on the field for 63 percent of DET snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 45 third down targets, had 0 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 19 targets have averaged 12.8 air yards.

In Week 3 against NYJ he caught 3 of 3 targets for 66 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against CAR he caught 4 of 8 targets for 95 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against ARI he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Makai Lemon has been on the field for 72 percent of PHI snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 28 targets have averaged 5.2 air yards.

In Week 4 against LAR he caught 3 of 6 targets for 27 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Isaac TeSlaa played 17 games and scored 75.9 PPR points, 4.5 a game, finishing WR82.

He caught 16 of 27 targets for 239 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 1.6 targets a game, a 59 percent catch rate and 14.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 38 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.

Head to head

This season Makai Lemon holds the bigger snap share, 72 percent against 63 percent.

This season Makai Lemon holds the bigger target share, 15 percent against 10 percent.

Byes and availability

Isaac TeSlaa is off in Week 6 and Makai Lemon in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

Makai Lemon is listed as questionable on the injury report.

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.