Too close to call: Malik Washington (10.5) and Makai Lemon (10.3) project within 0.2 PPR points of each other in Week 9, and Malik Washington faces the 3rd-softest defense against WRs.
Updated Nov 7, 4:39 PM ET
| Malik Washington WR · MIA | Makai Lemon WR · PHI | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 9, avg of sources) | 10.5 | 10.3 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 9.9 | 8.0 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 11.1 | 15.4 |
| StatChasers projection | 10.7 (WR33) | 8.5 (WR49) |
| Opponent | vs DET | vs NYG |
| Opponent vs. position | 3rd-softest (37.7 pts/g allowed) | 15th-softest (31.3 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 22% target share (last 3) | 21% target share (last 3) |
| Position | WR | WR |
| Our call | FLEX · Flex | SIT · Bench |
Settle every start/sit call with projections, matchup, recent usage and floor-versus-ceiling for your exact scoring settings.
It is a coin flip. Malik Washington projects for 10.5 PPR points and Makai Lemon for 10.3, within 0.2 of each other.
Break the tie with the floor if you are favored this week, and with the ceiling if you need a big game to win.
They are projected almost level: 10.5 PPR points for Malik Washington and 10.3 for Makai Lemon.
The sources range from 9.9 to 11.1 for Washington and from 8.0 to 15.4 for Lemon. Either result is well inside both ranges.
Malik Washington is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Washington at 9.9 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 11.1 for Malik Washington.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Malik Washington plays DET and Makai Lemon plays NYG in Week 9.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Washington faces the 3rd-softest defense against WRs and Lemon faces the 15th-softest defense against WRs, so Malik Washington 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 Malik Washington has drawn 22% of his team's targets, and Makai Lemon 21% of his team's targets.
Malik Washington 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 Malik Washington.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Malik Washington nor Makai Lemon 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). Malik Washington is projected by 6 of them and Makai Lemon by 5.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.