While watching the Detroit Lions play, you may have noticed that star wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown has a German flag on his helmet. Is St. Brown from Germany? Let’s examine why he wears the decal on his helmet.
Is Amon-Ra St. Brown German? Explaining the Flag on His Helmet
St. Brown was born in Anaheim Hills, Calif. So, why does he wear the German flag on his helmet?
“My mom is from Germany, so I’m half German,” St. Brown explained in an episode of “Inside the Den,” which followed him to Germany.
Amon-Ra’s mother, Miriam Brown née Steyer, is from Leverkusen, Germany. St. Brown is a German citizen, and he speaks German too.
St. Brown explained that the family visited Germany every summer when he was growing up. Even now, he travels there every offseason to visit his mother’s side of the family and hold a football camp in the country.
“It’s a lot of fun to be out there,” St. Brown said of Germany. “I kinda grew up out there, I was out there a lot as a kid. I know the area — I’m familiar with the people, the culture, and everything.”
Amon-Ra’s father, John Brown, met Miriam while attending a fitness event in Germany in 1989, and they hit it off. They eventually got married and had three kids: Amon-Ra, Equanimeous, and Osiris.
All three brothers are German citizens who spent a lot of time in the country as kids. In addition to speaking English and German, they also speak French.
“It was nice to have them come here because it’s part of their culture,” John told Inside the Den while in Germany. “I’m from Compton — I never thought in my wildest dreams that my kids would be in Germany, talking German, playing with their in-laws.
“It was just a great honor. I just used to always sit back and watch them speak German and hang out with their grandad and their grandma, and just have fun. For me, it was nice just to witness that.”
The full 28-minute episode of Inside the Den is worth the watch. St. Brown visits his grandparents’ house, kindergarten classroom, the soccer club he played for, and more. He also tells stories from his childhood, interacts with locals, attends a Hungary-Switzerland soccer match, and much more.
Lions Players’ Fantasy Outlooks for Week 7
Here’s what PFSN’s Kyle Soppe wrote about the notable Lions players’ fantasy outlooks for the Week 7 matchup against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers:
Jared Goff
Jared Goff is going to do what Jared Goff is going to do. It’s productive, but it’s not the most fantasy-friendly skill set.
Goff has completed north of 70% of his throws in five of six games and has multiple passing scores in three straight. He makes the right call on almost every snap, which is generally good for winning NFL games, but not great for us who live in the fantasy world.
The irony of a conservative QB (7.0 aDOT or less in every season with Detroit) leading a Dan Campbell team is not lost on me. It’s a yin-and-yang situation that works for this team.
There’s a chance he gets caught up in a shootout with Baker Mayfield this week, but what’s most likely is a low-possession game where Detroit’s offense is on the field for 35 minutes. That means a lot of the running backs and maybe another 200-2-0 type of line from Goff.
If that’s the case, he’s not worth starting in standard-sized leagues. The Bucs allow the sixth-most yards per deep completion this season, so if you told me that a single Goff bomb vaulted him from QB14 to QB9, I wouldn’t be shocked, but you’re playing him for the high floor and hoping that your skill position players do more of the heavy lifting.
Amon-Ra St. Brown
Amon-Ra St. Brown might have the highest floor of any receiver in the game today. He’s caught at least seven passes in five straight contests
He’s sacrificed a little depth of target for an increased share of the pie in this post-Ben Johnson era, and it looks good on him. What specifically has me enthralled and believing this could be fantasy’s WR1 the rest of the way is that he’s been targeted on 46.2% of his red zone routes, a significant spike from the 33% rate a season ago.
You never want to put the cart before the horse, but a third season with over 1,200 receiving yards and at least 10 TD receptions is a good bet, and that’ll put him easily in the first round of 2026 redrafts (yes, I have a few teams that are dead, and I’ve begun looking ahead, sue me).
Jahmyr Gibbs
Am I annoyed that Jahmyr Gibbs doesn’t have more than two targets in three straight games? I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t, but that really is a first-world problem.
Gibbs has seized control of this backfield, carrying the ball at least 15 times in three of his past four games. While the target count has been down recently, his 92% catch rate helps mitigate those worries, and the elite efficiency is what gives him a realistic path to being the top-scoring running back in any given week.
Tampa Bay owns a top-10 run defense, but its strengths are up the middle, and Gibbs can make those field-flipping plays when ushered outside. I downgrade most backs when facing the Bucs; Gibbs isn’t “most backs.”
David Montgomery
Nope, I didn’t have “Lions trying to get David Montgomery a touchdown pass in consecutive weeks” on my Bingo card, but here we are. It got called back against the Chiefs (almost like Goff isn’t up to date with the rules of being in motion), but the fact that they are willing to be creative gives me more hope than some of the recent usage stuff does.
Sans a blowout of Cincinnati, Monty hasn’t cleared 12 carries in a game this season, and there’s really no reason to call his number in the passing game when you have access to Jahmyr Gibbs (six targets over the past five weeks).
We saw the juice he still has in the explosion effort against the Ravens, and we know he’s a drive finisher, but there is no denying that the development of Gibbs into a well-rounded option has come at the expense of Detroit’s RB2.
Even with a lower floor/ceiling combination than he had in the Ben Johnson scheme, this is a starting-level profile. The loss in Kansas City last week was the first time this season that he didn’t get multiple red-zone touches: you’re chasing scores to a degree, but there aren’t five situations in which I’d rather do it.
Sam LaPorta
Sam LaPorta has scored in consecutive weeks (19 touchdowns in 39 career games), and I worry less about his target ceiling than I do others at the position.
Of course, I’d love to see him clear six looks in a game, something he hasn’t done since Week 1, but the track record of efficiency is enough to make him a lineup lock, especially in a home game like this that carries shootout potential.
If you include the playoff loss, LaPorta has hauled in 39 of his past 47 targets, a success rate that looks more like my high school GPA than a catch percentage. Much like Travis Kelce in Kansas City, Detroit has dialed back his average depth of target (5.9 yards after posting 7.4 and 7.9 in his first two NFL seasons), and it’s helped stabilize his fantasy floor.
Don’t bemoan the target count; be happy you’re one of the five highest floors at the position.
