Amon-Ra St. Brown did not sound like a guy in doubt . Hours before the Detroit Lions kicked off against the Dallas Cowboys , the wide receiver told the Amazon broadcast crew he knew on Wednesday he would play, even after a week without practice. He ran routes, tested his injured ankle, felt he could cut, and basically made up his mind. Teammate Jahmyr Gibbs took one look at him, gutting it out , and called him “Wolverine.”

The medical report painted a different picture. St. Brown suffered a low left ankle sprain in the Thanksgiving loss to the Green Bay Packers and played only four snaps in that game. Doctors initially expected him to miss one or two weeks, and the Lions listed him as questionable after he sat out practices from Monday through Wednesday.

Instead, he suited

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