Amon-Ra St. Brown

With the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game being held in Los Angeles this year, it will be a homecoming of sorts for St. Brown and Allen.

Specifically, Petzing ran with much heavier personnel than the Lions are used to seeing and have run a lot of 13-personnel (three tight ends, one running back) since 2023. We doubt the Lions will go quite that big quite that often -- that means one of Jameson Williams or Amon-Ra St. Brown is off the field -- but we do think that Trey McBride's success under Petzing generally augurs well for LaPorta in 2026. Of course, given that LaPorta (back) seems questionable for training camp after surgery, we don't exactly know that the Lions will be able to pull this off. LaPorta seems like a boom-bust pick in Best Ball drafts from where we sit in January.