Amon-Ra St. Brown wants a shot to take down the new champ.
The Lions wide receiver said on a recent episode of his podcast that he’s hoping Detroit opens the 2025 season with a trip to Philadelphia to face the Eagles, who won the Super Bowl on Sunday in decisive fashion over the Kansas City Chiefs.
The NFL traditionally schedules the Super Bowl champion at home in its opening game of the following season. The league has already announced matchups for 2025, with Lions at Eagles as one of them.
The only step left would be to schedule them for the opener, which St. Brown sees as a no-brainer.
“Eagles have the home opener next year, because they won the Super Bowl,” St. Brown said. “Can I read you the list of teams that could be in that first game? Commanders, Cowboys, Giants, Bears, Lions, Raiders, Rams, Broncos. Out of all those teams, if you’re the NFL, who are you putting in there?”
The Lions and Eagles didn’t play in the 2024 regular season en route to earning the top two seeds in the NFC playoffs. A potential playoff matchup was spoiled when the Lions were upset by the Commanders in the divisional round of the playoffs.
St. Brown insinuated that the Lions would relish the chance to play with a fully healthy defense after the unit was decimated by injuries come the 2024 playoffs.
“You would see what our healthy defense, how that (stuff) operates,” St. Brown said.
The Lions last participated in the NFL’s season kickoff game in 2023, when they beat the defending Super Bowl champion Chiefs on the road.
