Five
weeks after hosting their traditional Thanksgiving games, the Cowboys and Lions
will square off at AT&T Stadium on Saturday night. Detroit just clinched its
first division title since 1993, when three different quarterbacks — Rodney
Peete, Erik Kramer and Andre Ware — started and earned victories. Jared Goff
has been at the controls throughout this 11-4 season, and as he prepares to
duel with Dak Prescott, his favorite receiver earns our support for top prop:
The
bet: Over 6½ receptions for Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown (FanDuel)
Famously
motivated by falling to the fourth round in the 2021 draft, St. Brown has become
one of the league’s elite weapons. The USC product readily rattles off the 16
wideouts selected ahead of him, and he has outperformed all of them but the Bengals’
Ja’Marr Chase.
So far this season, St. Brown has exactly matched his 2022 totals for targets (146) and receptions (106). Despite playing two fewer games — 14 vs. 16 — he has already set new career highs for receiving yards and touchdowns. And he’s averaging 7.6 catches per game, which is more than Dallas counterpart CeeDee Lamb (7.3).
The
Cowboys play man coverage at the highest rate in the league, which has led to some
high reception totals for opposing No. 1 receivers. Both the Eagles’ A.J. Brown
and the Dolphins’ Tyreek Hill posted nine catches against their defense in
recent weeks.
Viewing
himself as the equal of those two and Lamb, St. Brown will continue to prove
the doubters wrong.