Amon-Ra St. Brown Camp Update — August 31: Detroit Keeps Just Four Receivers

Detroit announced its initial roster Sunday and kept just four wide receivers — Amon-Ra St. Brown, Jameson Williams, Isaac TeSlaa and Tay Martin — a group Tim Twentyman at the team's website acknowledged "went a little light." The week's departures emptied the rest of the room: Greg Dortch and Tom Kennedy were among the cuts, per Dave Birkett at the Detroit Free Press, and Cedrick Wilson Jr., placed on injured reserve Monday, was released with an injury settlement Wednesday, per Nathan Dougherty at Heavy. John Whiticar at Pride of Detroit called St. Brown and Jameson Williams "arguably the league's best receiving duo, atop the depth chart" — and, of what sits behind them, wrote he is "fairly concerned about the receiver depth" and "would be surprised if it is not addressed in the near future."

St. Brown's own file stayed exactly as empty as he wants it: no injury reporting touched him all window, and he sat Saturday's 25 to 16 finale win at Indianapolis with the rest of the front-line offense. That last part settles the other question we were carrying. Jared Goff did not play the finale, per Twentyman, so Detroit finished the preseason without its starting offense taking a single live snap together.

Back in June we argued St. Brown's production is built on things that carry forward — a target role north of 10 looks a game held for half a decade, and an availability record almost no receiver can match — with new coordinator Drew Petzing's target tree the one open question. A week ago we said the real item was whether the first team would get any live work before the opener. The answer is no, and it's final: the where-does-the-ball-go question now gets answered in a game that counts, against New Orleans, with a receiver room built four deep around him. We'll pick that up when the real games arrive.

_Data via nflverse._