{"id":174542,"date":"2025-08-25T14:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/174542\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T14:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:33:08","slug":"lions-wr-amon-ra-st-brown-cracks-top-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/174542\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions WR Amon-Ra St. Brown cracks top 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2024 stats:<\/strong> 17 games | 115 rec | 1,263 rec yds | 11 ypr | 12 rec TD<\/p>\n<p>The Lions&#8217; high-powered offense led them to the playoffs once again in 2024, and while \ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/jared-goff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jared Goff<\/a>\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff shined at QB and \ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/david-montgomery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Montgomery<\/a>\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff and \ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/jahmyr-gibbs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jahmyr Gibbs<\/a>\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff made headlines as a running back duo, it was St. Brown who led the team&#8217;s receiving corps to great success and a No. 2 ranking. Given an extension ahead of last season, St. Brown followed that up with his third 1,000-yard season in four years as a pro. He had almost double the catches of any other Lions player and finished top-five in the league in receptions, yards and touchdowns, earning his third Pro Bowl berth and second first-team All-Pro nod. St. Brown also has often shown sure hands, posting the highest single-season catch rate (81.6%) by a wide receiver over the last three seasons (min. 50 targets), dropping only one pass all year, per Next Gen Stats.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: rgb(85, 85, 85);\">NFL Pro Insight for <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.nfl.com\/players\/player\/53541\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Brown<\/a><\/strong>: Amon-Ra St. Brown converted 27 first downs against the blitz in 2024, tied with \ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/mike-evans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Evans<\/a>\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff for the most in the NFL. St. Brown has ranked in the top two of first down receptions against the blitz in each of the last three seasons, and leads the NFL with 88 first downs against the blitz since 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2024 stats: 17 games | 115 rec | 1,263 rec yds | 11 ypr | 12 rec TD&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":174543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[38928,43574,9000,50,1232,530,62,99330,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-174542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-amon-ra-st-brown","9":"tag-around-the-nfl","10":"tag-detroit-lions","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-no-minute","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-top-players","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115089900562550052","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}