The Miami Dolphins are busy scheduling and conducting top-30 visits ahead of the 2026 NFL Draft \u2014 and on Monday, one of the class\u2019 best pass catchers is in Miami Gardens visiting with the organization\u2019s brass.<\/p>\n
Makai Lemon of Southern California is meeting with Miami today \u2014 just ten days before the first round of this year\u2019s selection process is set to start. Lemon \u2014 5\u201911\u2019 and 192 lb \u2014 would give the Dolphins\u2019 wide receiver room a much needed boost following the departures of Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle earlier this offseason.<\/p>\n
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Here\u2019s what Lance Zierlein of the NFL\u2019s official website had to say regarding Lemon:<\/p>\n
\u201cHigh-skill, high-volume slot receiver with average size but extraordinary ball skills. Lemon has room for refinement, but not much. He\u2019s intelligent, confident and polished with the ability to make plays on all three levels. Tempo-driven route-runner who misdirects man coverage and separates out of turns but is fairly average after the catch. Quicker than fast, featuring early acceleration to open seam throws but flashes late burst when needed. More play strength is needed for NFL press and he needs to avoid rushing through multi-breaking routes. He\u2019s an exceptional ball-tracker with excellent catch timing and few focus drops. He wins more combat catches than he loses. Lemon is a plug-and-play, quarterback-friendly talent with first-round value and Pro Bowl upside.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to the praise Zierlein gave Lemon in his overview, he compared the wide receiver to Detroit Lions\u2019 star, Amon-Ra St. Brown.<\/p>\n
With the Dolphins holding both picks #11 and #30 in the 2026 NFL Draft, it will be a busy Thursday night for the franchise come April 23rd. We\u2019ll see how sweet \u2014 or sour \u2014 Miami is on Lemon once the selection process officially kicks off then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Dolphins are busy scheduling and conducting top-30 visits ahead of the 2026 NFL Draft \u2014 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2049],"tags":[4955,4566,113,217,7,14706,2527,1360,34748,216,251,13851,2087,6,1089],"class_list":{"0":"post-865688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-dolphins","8":"tag-2026-nfl-draft","9":"tag-amon-ra-st-brown","10":"tag-detroit-lions","11":"tag-dolphins","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-jaylen-waddle","14":"tag-lance-zierlein","15":"tag-lucas-oil-stadium","16":"tag-makai-lemon","17":"tag-miami","18":"tag-miami-dolphins","19":"tag-miami-gardens","20":"tag-miamidolphins","21":"tag-nfl","22":"tag-tyreek-hill"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116399014127454395","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865688","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=865688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}