Amon-Ra St. Brown Week 12 Outlook - Bills at Lions

By Derek Brown (FantasyPros), Thu, Nov 24th 2022, 1:05pm EST

The Sun God has been burning up the usage reports. He's tenth in target share (28.5%) and first in target per route run rate (35.1%). After seeing his red zone usage dry up, he's seen red zone targets in back-to-back games and ranks 26th among wide receivers. St. Brown is ninth in PFF receiving grade and sixth in yards per route run (minimum 25 targets). Since Week 8, he's played 53% of his snaps on the outside as the Lions' depth chart has been banged up. Over that span, he's still drawn 45.9% of his targets from the slot. When on the perimeter, he'll match up with Dane Jackson (since Week 7: 65.2% catch rate, 103.7 passer rating) and Christian Benford (since Week 7: 57.9% catch rate, 76.0 passer rating). It would be wise to move him inside more this week against Taron Johnson (since Week 7: 82.6% catch rate, 145.6 passer rating), who has been struggling mightily. St. Brown is a weekly WR1.