Get injury alerts and waiver tips before anyone else. Free, straight to your inbox.

Home › Players › Wide receivers › Makai Lemon

ML

Makai Lemon Injury Update

WR · Philadelphia Eagles · Status, injury history and fantasy outlook

Updated · synced from the live injury report

Current status

HEALTHY

No current injury designation

OverviewInjury historyNewsRankingsStart/Sit

Is Makai Lemon playing this week?

No injury designation

This status updates automatically when his official injury designation changes. No designation means he is expected to play. Inactives are announced 90 minutes before kickoff, so check the live injury report before your lineup locks.

Latest

Makai Lemon’s current injury designation is shown in the live status box above, which updates automatically from the official NFL injury report. The No. 20 overall pick missed three weeks of training camp after straining a hamstring on Aug. 3 and returned to full practice on Aug. 24.

The lost camp time showed early: he had three catches for minus-5 yards in Week 1 and one 14-yard catch on 48 snaps in Week 2 at Tennessee, per CBS Sports and PhillyVoice.

Fantasy Action: Lemon is a stash in deeper leagues; don’t start him until the targets follow the snaps.

Injury timeline — 2026

Aug 3Strained his hamstring in practice; the Eagles described it as not serious.
Aug 24Returned as a full participant and went straight back to first-team drills.

Earlier seasons

SeasonInjuryGames missed
—No prior-season injuries found in our sources.—

Rookie: drafted in round 1 (20th overall) of the 2026 draft by the Eagles out of USC.

Sources

Frequently asked about Makai Lemon

Is Makai Lemon injured?

His current official designation is shown in the live status box at the top of this page, which updates automatically from the NFL injury report. The hamstring strain he suffered in August healed before the season.

Why has Makai Lemon started slowly?

A hamstring strain cost him most of training camp, and he had four catches for 9 yards through his first two games.