Amon-Ra St. Brown injury not long-term but Lions WR could miss time

The Detroit Lions are facing life without their two best receivers, at least for a little while.

Already down Pro Bowl tight end Sam LaPorta, who is out for the season with a back injury, the Lions lost All-Pro wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown to an ankle injury early in Detroit's Thanksgiving loss to the Green Bay Packers. St. Brown got rolled up from behind by teammates while run blocking on a play.

St. Brown left the game and did not return. As for when he returns, that's still unknown. Lions head coach Dan Campbell indicated after the game that St. Brown could return soon and that the injury doesn't appear to be a season-ending one.

“Well, I’ll know more tomorrow," Campbell said in his postgame press conference. "I don’t feel like this is long, long-term. So that’s the good news, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be here for – could be a week or two, maybe if we arelucky.”

The Lions play the Dallas Cowboys in Detroit next Thursday in Week 14 before a 10-day break ahead of a Week 15 trip to Los Angeles to face the Rams.

Campbell knows the Lions will miss St. Brown, but he expressed confidence in the remaining Lions players to help fill the void.

"(St. Brown's) a playmaker and he does a ton for us. And so, yeah, I certainly don’t want to say that it doesn’t influence you or affect you. But yet, I do have a lot of trust in Tom Kennedy. I do have a lot of trust in (Jameson Williams) Jamo, especially when we know what the coverage is and we’ve got him running. We’ve still got (Jahmyr) Gibbs."

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