Should I start Makai Lemon or Tre Tucker in Week 8?
Updated Nov 3, 3:36 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Week 8 verdict
Start Makai Lemon over Tre Tucker
Right: 11.7 to 0.0
- Market projected
- 10.5
- pre-game
- WAS D vs WR
- 35.9
- 6th most to WRs (2026)
- Target share
- 28%
- Week 8
- Scored
- 11.7
- PPR pts
- Market projected
- 10.3
- pre-game
- NYJ D vs WR
- 30.6
- 15th fewest to WRs (2026)
- Target share
- 4%
- Week 8
- Scored
- 0.0
- PPR pts
Start Makai Lemon: 86 percent of the snaps and 18 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Tre Tucker's 76 percent of the snaps and 20 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
Should I drop Makai Lemon for Tre Tucker?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Tre Tucker projects 73 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (9.1 a game over 8 games), Makai Lemon 47 (5.9 a game over 8 games).
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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.
WR50 · PHI · bye 10
2026 vs anytime td line 1-7
- Market-based projection
- 10.7 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 133
WR52 · LV · bye 13
2026 vs anytime td line 3-5
- Market-based projection
- 10.3 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 135
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The gap
- Board size297 draftable players
Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Makai Lemon, and the board ranks him 133rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Tre Tucker, and the board ranks him 135th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Makai Lemon is 2.0 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 Tre Tucker is 1.9 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.
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 76 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, Tre Tucker has been on the field for 68 percent of LV snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 16 of the offence's 77 third down targets, had 0 of its 25 chances inside the five and seen 13 of its 43 two minute targets.
His 48 targets have averaged 13.4 air yards.
In Week 6 against BUF he caught 5 of 7 targets for 97 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
In Week 7 against LAR he caught 5 of 12 targets for 103 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 8 against NYJ he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 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 Tre Tucker played 17 games and scored 161.7 PPR points, 9.5 a game, finishing WR38.
He caught 57 of 92 targets for 696 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.
That came to 5.4 targets a game, a 62 percent catch rate and 12.2 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 95 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
This season Makai Lemon holds the bigger snap share, 76 percent against 68 percent.
This season Makai Lemon holds the bigger target share, 18 percent against 17 percent.
Byes and availability
Makai Lemon is off in Week 10 and Tre Tucker in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.
Drop or keep
Should I drop Makai Lemon for Tre Tucker?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Tre Tucker projects 73 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (9.1 a game over 8 games), Makai Lemon 47 (5.9 a game over 8 games).
Should I drop Tre Tucker for Makai Lemon?
No. Keep Tre Tucker: he projects 73 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (9.1 a game over 8 games), Makai Lemon 47 (5.9 a game over 8 games).
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