USC wide receiver Makai Lemon (5-11, 195) might not be the biggest pro prospect, but he’s long on confidence.<\/p>\n
“My best trait? Probably the things that I can do,” he told reporters Friday at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis. “I can catch, I can turn a 2-, 3-yard route into a big gain or even possibly a touchdown and then my blocking. The way I can impact the team without the ball in my hands.”<\/p>\n
In 12 games last season for the Trojans, Lemon hauled in 79 passes for 1,156 yards (14.6\/rec) and had 11 TDs.<\/p>\n
“I’m trying to get in the end zone,” Lemon said. “I ain’t going to let nobody in my way stop me from doing that, so the fastest way I can do that — I’m going to do that for sure.”<\/p>\n
Lemon is considered one of the top receiving talents in this draft class. He could be a consideration for the Jets with their second pick, No. 16 overall, in the first round.<\/p>\n
“I met with the Jets,” he said. “It went good, it went smooth. They talked ball, trying to see who I am as a person.”<\/p>\n
The last time the Jets took a USC wideout in the first round was 1996 when the club made Keyshawn Johnson the No. 1 overall pick.<\/p>\n
“He’s one of them greats and much respect to him,” Lemon said of Johnson. “It would be great to see him and chop it up with him one day.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"USC wide receiver Makai Lemon (5-11, 195) might not be the biggest pro prospect, but he’s long on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[109557,4955,7,226,929,1917,255,88,2321,2097,6,109777],"class_list":{"0":"post-786753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-jets","8":"tag-2026-combine","9":"tag-2026-nfl-draft","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-jets","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-jets","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkjets","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-path-to-the-2026-draft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116159946781473132","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}