WRs not named Amon-Ra St. Brown

The 2024 Detroit Lions are poised on the precipice of greatness. Dan Campbell’s Lions were within one half of the franchise’s first Super Bowl appearance a year ago, and they’ve taken steps to significantly upgrade the pass defense.

Heck, I’ve picked Detroit to win the NFC this year. These Lions are that high-end.

Yet every team has flaws and vulnerabilities. Wrapping up the list of my biggest concerns (aside from “injuries”) about what might keep the Lions from achieving their full potential: wide receiver play from anyone not named Amon-Ra St. Brown.

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The Lions are in great hands with St. Brown, an All-Pro who was briefly the highest-paid wide receiver in NFL history earlier this offseason. He’s worth every penny, and St. Brown could very well set the league record for targets and receptions in 2024.

After St. Brown, well…

Every other wide receiver will be at least one spot higher on an NFL depth chart than they’ve ever been before. That starts with Jameson Williams, who has not done much in two star-crossed seasons.

Jamo

“Jamo” has the talent to step up and take over the No. 2 wideout role. With his incredible speed, lanky toughness and improved approach and maturity, Williams has done what he needed to do this offseason to earn the role and the respect. Yet as confident as I am that Williams will be an impact player, he’s caught all of 25 passes in 18 games (10 starts) in two years, hauling in less than half the balls thrown his way from Jared Goff.

I can see Williams, all 6-foot-1 and 180 pounds of him, being a high-variance player; one week he’ll catch eight passes for 111 yards and two TDs, then drops back to 2 catches for 27 yards the following week, with a drop mixed in for good measure. In the team’s final scrimmage of the summer, Williams didn’t see a ball thrown his way until very late in the action. On the weeks where Jamo is hitting big, the Lions have a fantastic 1-2 punch at WR.

Lif

Those other weeks require someone else to step up, be it Kalif Raymond or Isaiah Williams. Raymond is an effective outside vertical threat despite being just 5-foot-8 and 180 pounds, but he’s fairly limited by size. He’s been great as a subpackage player the last two seasons, but in his one year as a (mostly) full-time…