Lions’ fourth-spherical receiver motivated after falling in draft: ‘I am willing to purchase anyone’s job’

The exercise of the sting of a disappointing final outcome on the NFL draft as motivation to propel your self to a more a hit profession will not be any longer exactly a fresh art work. Tom Brady made that famed after being chosen No. 199 overall on the 2000 NFL Draft and there had been others for the duration of the history of the game to switch down a identical song. As we switch forward from the 2021 draft, can also Lions receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown be the next participant to apply this route? Judging by his most unusual feedback, it determined sounds like he’s up for the disaster.

The USC product did no longer enjoy the draft expertise that he’d hoped for, sitting there as 16 receivers got right here off the board sooner than Detroit got right here calling in the fourth spherical with the No. 112 obtain. Whereas that used to be hardly the originate he used to be shopping for, St. Brown is the exercise of this snub as gas to push more tough now that he’s in the league. He furthermore authorized that he’s “never going to put out of your mind the [16] receivers that went sooner than me in the draft.”

“(When the third spherical ended) I had a bittersweet feeling in my mouth and it factual made me ticket is I’ve got to switch more tough,” St. Brown acknowledged Sunday at Lions rookie minicamp, by the exercise of the Detroit Free Press. “I am contented that the Detroit Lions drafted me however this is factual the establish to commence for me. It be the foundation of a chapter for me and I am going to switch forward and work arduous and give it all the issues I’ve got.”

St. Brown does advance to Detroit after a productive profession at UCS. Over three seasons (30 video games), the 5-foot-11, 197 pounder caught 178 balls for 2,270 yards (12.8 yards per spend) and 16 touchdowns. Already he’s begun working with fresh Lions quarterback Jared Goff in California and is as motivated as ever to climb to the ladder of the receiver depth chart. 

“I am enraged to be right here,” he acknowledged. “I am enraged to work and I am willing to purchase anyone’s job.”

St. Brown, who has lined up both as an outdoors and slot receiver to this level, has seemingly opened some eyes for the duration of this early stage of Detroit’s offseason program as head coach Dan Campbell authorized that he “has no longer disappointed” over his first taste of NFL action at rookie camp. Can the receiver continue this particular momentum and create other groups kick themselves for no longer taking him earlier in the draft? We will soon fetch out.