Should I start Makai Lemon or Keenan Allen in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Makai Lemon, and the board ranks him 154th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Keenan Allen, and the board ranks him 160th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

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.

The market-based projection for Keenan Allen is 2.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 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 through Week 8

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.

Through Week 8, Keenan Allen has been on the field for 59 percent of IND snaps, drawn 22 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 15 of the offence's 54 third down targets, had 1 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 50 targets have averaged 7.3 air yards.

In Week 6 against TEN he caught 8 of 11 targets for 82 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against MIN he caught 3 of 3 targets for 31 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against JAX he caught 7 of 7 targets for 67 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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

In 2025 Keenan Allen played 17 games and scored 182.7 PPR points, 10.7 a game, finishing WR29.

He caught 81 of 122 targets for 777 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 15 red zone targets.

That came to 7.2 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 9.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 55 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Head to head

This season Makai Lemon holds the bigger snap share, 78 percent against 59 percent.

This season Keenan Allen holds the bigger target share, 22 percent against 18 percent.

Byes and availability

Makai Lemon is off in Week 10 and Keenan Allen in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.