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Eric Woodyard
ALLEN PARK, Mich. — First-Workforce All-Professional extensive receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown hasn’t been taking part within the Detroit Lions‘ low season practices after present process an offseason knee surgical procedure. Nevertheless, he anticipates being prepared for coaching camp in late July.
“I had a surgical procedure on my knee after the season simply to scrub some stuff up, so I have been rehabbing that, however I ought to be good to go for coaching camp,” St. Brown stated following Thursday’s observe. St. Brown, 25, is coming into his fifth season as one of many league’s premier receivers.
In 2024, he began in all 17 video games and led the Lions in receiving yards (1,263), receptions (115) and receiving touchdowns (12).
The 2021 fourth-round decide, a three-time Professional Bowl choice, has additionally logged the third-most 100-yard receiving video games in staff historical past with 19.
After a 15-win season in 2024, St. Brown says the mindset in Detroit is “Tremendous Bowl or nothing.”
“At this level, we wish to win a Tremendous Bowl; that is it,” St. Brown stated. “Clearly, we have got to make the playoffs to win the Tremendous Bowl, however that is understood by everybody, so, we wish to win the Tremendous Bowl. Plain and easy.”
After capturing back-to-back NFC North titles, the Lions will face one of many league’s hardest schedules this 12 months. Detroit is scheduled for 5 prime-time video games in 2025, along with its annual Thanksgiving Day recreation, versus the Packers on Nov. 27, and a matchup at Minnesota on Dec. 25.
Lions coach Dan Campbell and St. Brown say they’re prepared for the problem as they stay up for coaching camp subsequent month.
“I am excited for the way in which it is laid out. I really like the house video games, I really like the highway video games, I really like the night time video games — not as a lot,” Campbell stated of the powerful schedule. “We have some 1 o’clock this 12 months, which is sweet. However, we’ll be prepared. I do not care the way it strains up. We have to be able to go, and we shall be.”
Campbell additionally offered an up to date time-frame on the return of linebacker Malcolm Rodriguez, who suffered a torn proper ACL in final season’s Thanksgiving Day recreation.
“Conservatively? November. … Yeah, that is in all probability the easiest way to say it. In all probability November. Someplace in there.”
Rodriguez, 26, recorded 43 tackles and a couple of.0 sacks in 10 video games (six begins) earlier than sustaining the season-ending harm.
Info from Area Stage Media was used on this report.
