Lions' St. Brown eyes training camp after surgery

ALLEN PARK, Mich. - First-Team All-Pro wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown hasn't been participating successful the Detroit Lions' off-season practices aft undergoing an offseason genu surgery. However, helium anticipates being acceptable for grooming campy successful precocious July.

"I had a country connected my genu aft the play conscionable to cleanable immoderate worldly up, truthful I've been rehabbing that, but I should beryllium bully to spell for grooming camp," St. Brown said pursuing Thursday's practice. St. Brown, 25, is entering his 5th play arsenic 1 of the league's premier receivers.

In 2024, helium started successful each 17 games wherever helium led the Lions successful receiving yards (1,263), receptions (115) and receiving touchdowns (12).

The erstwhile fourth-round prime has besides logged the third-most 100-yard receiving games successful squad past with 19 arsenic a three-time Pro Bowl selection.

After a 15-win play successful 2024, St. Brown says the mindset successful Detroit is "Super Bowl oregon nothing."

"At this point, we privation to triumph a Super Bowl, that's it," St. Brown said. "Obviously, we've gotta marque the playoffs to triumph the Super Bowl, but that's understood by everyone, truthful we privation to triumph the Super Bowl. Plain and simple."

The Lions volition present look 1 of the league's toughest schedules this upcoming twelvemonth aft capturing back-to-back NFC North titles. Detroit is scheduled for 5 prime-time games successful 2025, successful summation to their yearly Thanksgiving Day game, versus the Packers connected Nov. 27, and a Christmas matchup astatine Minnesota connected Dec. 25.

Lions caput manager Dan Campbell and St. Brown accidental they're acceptable for the situation arsenic they look guardant to grooming campy adjacent month.

"I'm excited for the mode it's laid out. I emotion the location games, I emotion the roadworthy games, I emotion the nighttime games - not arsenic much," Campbell said of the pugnacious schedule. "We've got immoderate 1 o'clock this year, which is good. But, we'll beryllium ready. I don't attraction however it lines up. We've got to beryllium acceptable to spell and we volition be."

Campbell besides provided an updated timeframe connected the instrumentality of linebacker Malcolm Rodriguez, who suffered a torn close ACL successful past season's Thanksgiving Day game.

"Conservatively? November. ... Yeah, that's astir apt the champion mode to accidental it. Probably November. Somewhere successful there."

Rodriguez, 26, recorded 43 tackles and 2.0 sacks successful 10 games (six starts) earlier sustaining the season-ending injury.

Information from Field Level Media was utilized successful this report.