Start Tre Tucker or Makai Lemon? Week 6

Our Week 6 call

Start Tre Tucker over Makai Lemon in Week 6.

Market-based projections have Tre Tucker at 9.0 points and Makai Lemon at 6.9, a gap of 2.1. No player market is posted for Makai Lemon this week yet, so his 6.9 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 3, 4 and 5 (6.9, 6.7 and 7.2); the call is rebuilt when his market posts.

What the market projects

No Week 6 player market is posted for Makai Lemon yet. His market-based projections were 6.9, 6.7 and 7.2 points in Weeks 3, 4 and 5, an average of 6.9, which stands in until his Week 6 market posts.

The market gives Makai Lemon a 21% chance to score a touchdown (3 market sources).

Player markets imply 9.0 fantasy points for Tre Tucker, with 100 percent of the markets a WR needs posted.

The market-based projection for Tre Tucker is 38 receiving yards and 3-4 receptions, with a 25% chance to score a touchdown (13, 9 and 13 market sources).

That puts Tre Tucker 2.1 points ahead of Makai Lemon on these projections.

Injury status

Makai Lemon is not on the injury report.

Tre Tucker is not on the injury report.

Usage before Week 6

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.

Through Week 5, Tre Tucker played 66 percent of LV snaps, drew 16 percent of the targets, earned 28 percent of the air yards and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

Tre Tucker, Week 2 against LAC: 37 of 63 snaps, 7 targets and 5 catches for 119 yards, 1 touchdown.

Tre Tucker, Week 3 against NO: 40 of 70 snaps, 4 targets and 4 catches for 43 yards.

Tre Tucker, Week 4 against KC: 56 of 84 snaps, 8 targets and 4 catches for 44 yards.

Tre Tucker, Week 5 against NE: 45 of 60 snaps, 2 carries for -6 yards, 5 targets and 4 catches for 41 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025, Tre Tucker played 17 games for LV 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 and 405 air yards.

He was on the field for 95 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

Their other Week 6 calls

• Start Makai Lemon over Chris Godwin Jr..
• Start Makai Lemon over Cooper Kupp.
• Start Courtland Sutton over Makai Lemon.
• Start Tre Tucker over Adonai Mitchell.
• Start Tre Tucker over Brian Thomas Jr..
• Start Carnell Tate over Tre Tucker.