When shopping for a car, you don’t want to buy a lemon. When looking for a quality football player, USC was thrilled to find Makai Lemon. He has a motor that won’t quit.
The 6-foot, 180-pound four-star receiver finished his junior season with 65 receptions for 1,065 yards and 15 touchdowns, and he added four interceptions on defense at cornerback. The USC commit also averaged nearly 30 yards per kick return. He and future teammate Zachariah Branch are two of the fastest men in the national 2023 recruiting class.
Lemon was named to the MaxPreps Preseason All-America Team.
Lemon is committed to USC with his high quarterback Malachi Nelson, another All-American and five-star recruit in his own right.
The senior wide receiver is ranked as the No. 52 player in the class of 2023 and the ninth-best WR in the class according to On3.com.
The previously mentioned Nelson connected with Lemon for more than 1,000 yards and 15 touchdowns in 2021 after racking up 756 yards and nine scores in the fall of 2020.
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