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Amon-Ra St. Brown convinces in the NFL
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Amon-Ra St. Brown has recently proven himself to be a sure passport recipient with the Detroit Lions who are still without a win.
Photo: AP/Paul Sancya
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Leverkusen After five games in the US professional league, the wide receiver with Hitdorf roots has 19 catches for 178 yards. However, his Detroit Lions remain without a win.
It looks like Amon-Ra St. Brown has finally made it into the NFL professional football league. After his promising performance in the away game in Chicago, the wide receiver (pass recipient) with Hitdorf roots also delivered well in the bitter 17:19 defeat of his Detroit Lions at the Minnesota Vikings. The young German-American caught seven of the eight passports addressed to him and gained 65 yards of space.
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After his first five games in the elite league, he now has 19 catches for 178 yards, but is still waiting for his first touchdown. Much more important, however, is that after three games with rather ordinary numbers for a newcomer to the league, the receiver, named after the Egyptian sun god, is increasingly meeting the great expectations that many experts have placed in him. The well-known expert Mike O’Hara, for example, sees him not only as a reliable pass-catcher, but already as a potential favorite stop for Lions quarterback Jared Goff.
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As well as things are going well for Amon-Ra personally, the season is just as difficult from his team’s point of view. As against the Baltimore Ravens two weeks earlier, Detroit also suffered a 17:19 defeat in Minnesota with a wide field goal from the opponent – at that time from the record range of 66 yards, this time from 54 yards – in the last play of the game. The Lions are the only team besides the Jacksonville Jaguars without a sense of achievement in the season.
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“It is really time for the first win,” St. Brown had emphasized before the game. Naturally, he is significantly more satisfied with his own start at the new place of work than with the Lions’ booty – and he has now got used to the higher pace in the NFL compared to college football: “It doesn’t feel as fast as it does At the beginning. “In the game with the Vikings he was not only the wide receiver with the most passes received as well as captured and the highest yard yield, but was also on the field for more offensive plays (47 of 68) than any of his for the first time Position colleagues.
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Far more difficult than Amon-Ra is currently his eldest brother Equanimeous. In his fourth year with the Green Bay Packers, he is only part of the Practice Squad. In week five he was in the matchday squad and on the field for the third time (twelve of 42 offense plays), but was not once targeted by quarterback Aaron Rodgers in the gripping 25:22 overtime win at the Cincinnati Bengals. The two regular missions that are possible for players from the training squad have now been used up. Now the Packers have two options: they can permanently promote “EQ” to the active squad or, given the still very manageable contributions (three games, 29 snaps on the offensive, a trapped pass, zero yards gain) and leave him in the practice squad leave if no other team obliges him. However, in this case, Equanimeous will only have further employment opportunities if, as in the previous week in the duel with the Pittsburgh Steelers, he expressly moves into the matchday squad as a replacement for a player on the Covid list.
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