Start Jalen Royals or Makai Lemon? Week 6
Start Jalen Royals over Makai Lemon
- Market projects
- 6.3
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 31%
- Through Week 4
- Target share
- 5%
- Through Week 4
- Market projects
- 3.9
- fantasy pts
- CAR D vs WR
- 28.4
- 9th fewest to WRs (2026)
- Snap share
- 70%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 15%
- Through Week 5
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Our Week 6 call
Start Jalen Royals over Makai Lemon in Week 6.
Market-based projections have Jalen Royals at 6.3 points and Makai Lemon at 3.9, a gap of 2.4.
What the market projects
Player markets imply 6.3 fantasy points for Jalen Royals, with 100 percent of the markets a WR needs posted.
The market-based projection for Jalen Royals is 25 receiving yards, 2-3 receptions and 0.2 touchdowns (12, 12 and 13 market sources).
Player markets imply 3.9 fantasy points for Makai Lemon, with 100 percent of the markets a WR needs posted.
The market-based projection for Makai Lemon is 16 receiving yards, 1-2 receptions and 0.1 touchdowns (11, 11 and 13 market sources).
That puts Jalen Royals 2.4 points ahead of Makai Lemon on the market projections.
Week 6 matchups
Makai Lemon and PHI host CAR on Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.
CAR allowed 28.4 fantasy points a game to WRs this season over 4 games, the 9th fewest in the league.
Receivers caught passes for 152 yards and 0.3 touchdowns a game against CAR.
Injury status
Jalen Royals is not on the injury report.
Makai Lemon is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 6
Through Week 4, Jalen Royals played 31 percent of KC snaps, drew 5 percent of the targets, earned 4 percent of the air yards and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
Jalen Royals, Week 2 against IND: 12 of 80 snaps, 2 targets and 2 catches for 6 yards, 1 touchdown.
Jalen Royals, Week 3 against MIA: 10 of 52 snaps, 1 target and 1 catch for 11 yards.
Jalen Royals, Week 4 against LV: 38 of 60 snaps, 2 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.
Through Week 5, Makai Lemon played 70 percent of PHI snaps, drew 15 percent of the targets, earned 10 percent of the air yards and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
Makai Lemon, Week 2 against TEN: 48 of 76 snaps, 1 carry for -5 yards, 1 target and 1 catch for 14 yards.
Makai Lemon, Week 3 against CHI: 35 of 50 snaps, 4 targets and 3 catches for 29 yards.
Makai Lemon, Week 4 against LAR: 45 of 61 snaps, 6 targets and 3 catches for 27 yards.
Makai Lemon, Week 5 against JAX: 50 of 62 snaps, 7 targets and 5 catches for 43 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Jalen Royals played 7 games for KC and scored 2.4 PPR points, 0.3 a game.
He caught 2 of 3 targets for 4 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets and 0 air yards.
He was on the field for 9 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Their other Week 6 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
WR50 · KC · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 1-3
- Overall rank
- 143
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 17
Ranked behind
WR65 · PHI · bye 10
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Overall rank
- 178
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 20
The board cards are draft figures, not the week's call. Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 6, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.
The gap between them
- Spots apart on the board35
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tierstier 17 and tier 20
- Board size317 draftable players
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