Start Makai Lemon. Lemon is projected for 10.3 PPR points vs 10.0 for Khalil Shakir, and faces the 15th-softest defense against WRs this week.
Updated Nov 7, 4:39 PM ET
| Makai Lemon WR · PHI | Khalil Shakir WR · BUF | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 9, avg of sources) | 10.3 | 10.0 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 8.0 | 9.0 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 15.4 | 11.5 |
| StatChasers projection | 8.5 (WR49) | 9.8 (WR42) |
| Opponent | vs NYG | vs MIN |
| Opponent vs. position | 15th-softest (31.3 pts/g allowed) | 4th-toughest (25.9 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 21% target share (last 3) | 19% target share (last 3) |
| Position | WR | WR |
| Our call | SIT · Bench | FLEX · Flex |
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Start Makai Lemon. Lemon projects for 10.3 PPR points vs NYG, against 10.0 for Khalil Shakir vs MIN: a 0.3-point edge.
The projection is the average of every source that carries each player this week, and a player listed Out or Doubtful is never the start.
Makai Lemon is projected to score more: 10.3 PPR points to 10.0 for Khalil Shakir.
The sources range from 8.0 to 15.4 for Lemon and from 9.0 to 11.5 for Shakir. The ranges overlap, so Shakir outscoring Lemon is a realistic result.
Khalil Shakir is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Shakir at 9.0 PPR points, against 8.0 for Makai Lemon.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
Makai Lemon has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Lemon at 15.4 PPR points, against 11.5 for Khalil Shakir.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Makai Lemon plays NYG and Khalil Shakir plays MIN in Week 9.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Lemon faces the 15th-softest defense against WRs and Shakir faces the 4th-toughest defense against WRs, so Makai Lemon has the softer matchup.
Each projection already accounts for the opponent, so a soft matchup is a tiebreaker, not a reason to bench the higher projection.
Over his recent games Makai Lemon has drawn 21% of his team's targets, and Khalil Shakir 19% of his team's targets.
Makai Lemon has the bigger role, and volume is the steadiest thing a projection rests on.
These numbers are in PPR. Full PPR adds a point per catch, so it helps whichever player sees more targets, which here is Makai Lemon.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Makai Lemon nor Khalil Shakir has an injury designation for Week 9.
Designations change through the week, so check again before kickoff; this page updates with each refresh.
Each figure is the average of the projection sources that carry the player this week: StatChasers, Sleeper, ESPN, numberFire, FFToday and the betting markets (sportsbook player props). Makai Lemon is projected by 5 of them and Khalil Shakir by 6.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.