Fantasy football allows fans to be an amateur general manager, and sometimes that fosters dreams of players they'd like to see on their favorite real-life team. It's sometimes not very realistic, based on pesky thinks like a contract or a current team being willing to trade said player(s), but fans can and do dream in hypotheticals-and there's nothing wrong with that.
Players definitely have thoughts about players they'd like to play with, if only hypothetically if not in eventual reality, whether they publicly acknowledge it or not.
On last week's episode of his podcast, "The St. Brown Podcast", Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown and his brother, Saints wide receiver Equanimeous St. Brown, fielded a fan question from Twitter about one player they'd like to add off any team to their respective teams if they could.
If you could pick any NFL player to add to the Lions or Saints, who would you add? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/iag4LnFJRG
— St. Brown Podcast (@StBrownPodcast) December 10, 2024
Amon-Ra St. Brown taps into Lions fans dreams with player he'd add to team
St. Brown pondered his answer for a bit, but then seemed to easily land on a name and the reasoning behind his choice.
"It would probably have to be Maxx Crosby. I feel like him, Z, the edge rushers we got, Aidan, would be crazy," St. Brown said. "At that point I feel like your DB's have to cover for like three seconds and that's that, because one of those is getting to the quarterback, one of those is getting a sack, a pressure, whatever it is."
"So I would say Maxx Crosby at this point in time, There's so many good players on this league, but just feel like, you know, he went to Eastern Michigan, it just feels right."
Crosby grew up in Lapeer, Michigan, and as St. Brown reminded us he went to school at Eastern Michigan. He has also expressed affinity for the Lions (when asked to pick another team he'd like to play for), head coach Dan Campbell and right tackle Penei Sewell over time. He was well aware of fans clamoring for the Lions to trade for him after Aidan Hutchinson went down earlier this season.
Crosby has also consistently professed his allegiance to the Raiders as the losing continues in Las Vegas, and he has two years left on a sizeable contract. So dreams of him teaming up with Aidan Hutchinson and possibly Za'Darius Smith in Detroit are going to have to wait, if the time ever comes. But St. Brown is right where a lot of fans would be if they could pick one player to add to the Lions' roster.