On our recent USC show with Mark Rogers at The Voice of College Football, we predicted USC football’s rushing and receiving leaders for 2024. We wrote this about Makai Lemon earlier in the summer:
Look for Lemon’s role in the offense to greatly increase in 2024. He is arguably the most polished receiver among his 2022 enrollees, which also include Ja’Kobi Lane from Red Mountain High School in Mesa, Arizona. Lemon has an elite combination of speed and explosiveness that allows him to create separation in his routes. He has been praised for his reliability to catch the ball underneath and in traffic with his great hands. He is an all-around athlete who shows his playmaking skills with the ability to run clean routes and become a threat to score each time he touches the ball after the catch.
As the backup to Williams in previous seasons, Miller Moss has built up a lot of confidence with countless reps with the 2022 receiving class. Moss, Lemon and the other freshmen receivers put on a show in the Holiday Bowl. While Lemon only had two catches, they averaged 37.5 yards per completion. It would not be surprising, from what we saw of Lemon at Los Alamitos High School and in the Holiday Bowl, to see him fill the role played by 1,000-yard receiver Tahj Washington in 2023.
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