Makai Lemon or Ja'Marr Chase: who should I start in Week 6?
Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 at 5:46 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for 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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WR64 · PHI · bye 10
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- Market-based projection
- 7.2 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 158
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 16
WR67 · CIN · on bye this week
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- Market-based projection
- 18.4 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 167
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 17
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size200 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.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Makai Lemon: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 158th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Ja'Marr Chase: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 167th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 5.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Makai Lemon is 1.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 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.
No season market is posted for Ja'Marr Chase, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Makai Lemon has been on the field for 70 percent of PHI snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 45 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 29 two minute targets.
His 22 targets have averaged 5.1 air yards.
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.
In Week 5 against JAX he caught 5 of 7 targets for 43 yards and did not score.
Through Week 5, Ja'Marr Chase has been on the field for 75 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 9 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 2 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 33 two minute targets.
His 38 targets have averaged 9.2 air yards.
In Week 3 against PIT he caught 9 of 12 targets for 98 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 4 against JAX he caught 3 of 3 targets for 27 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against MIA he caught 6 of 10 targets for 77 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
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Their 2025 seasons
Makai Lemon is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
In 2025 Ja'Marr Chase played 16 games and scored 313.6 PPR points, 19.6 a game, finishing WR4.
He caught 125 of 185 targets for 1412 yards and 8 touchdowns, with 21 red zone targets.
That came to 11.6 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 11.3 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 94 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
This season Ja'Marr Chase holds the bigger snap share, 75 percent against 70 percent.
This season Ja'Marr Chase holds the bigger target share, 20 percent against 15 percent.
Byes and availability
Makai Lemon is off in Week 10 and Ja'Marr Chase in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.
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