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Jared Goff has completed 30 consecutive passes to Amon-Ra St. Brown

Jared Goff has completed 30 consecutive passes to Amon-Ra St. Brown

In the Lions’ Week Three game against the Cardinals, Amon-Ra St. Brown caught seven of the eight passes Jared Goff threw him. That’s good, but what has happened since then is remarkable.

The only incomplete pass in that week three game is the last time St. Brown didn’t catch a pass thrown to him. From the end of week three’s game against the Cardinals through Sunday’s game against the Packers, Goff has thrown 30 passes to St. Brown, and St. Brown has caught all 30 of them.

That’s an extraordinary feat for a quarterback and a wide receiver. Goff leads the NFL in completion percentage at 74.9 percent, and St. Brown leads the NFL in catch percentage, having caught 81.4 percent of his targets. They play pitch-and-catch like no other pair in the NFL, and Lions coach Dan Campbell said after the win in Green Bay that they have a unique rapport.

“The connection between the two? It’s special. Those two have been clicking for four years now – actually three and a half years, it started about halfway through that ’21 season and it just built from there. If you’re a quarterback, we’ve got a damn good one, but it’s easy to throw to a guy like St. Brown because he’s open, he’s got body control, balance, he can separate, he’s got speed, he’s got play speed, strong hands ,” Campbell said. ‘They have done so well that they can think without speaking. They know each other, what they’re going to do, and all that. So it’s special and they make each other better.”

When a reporter asked Campbell about the streak of thirty consecutive completions, Campbell told him not to jinx it.

“I hate it when you guys do that,” Campbell said. “Someone finds something and what happens if it’s incomplete? Can you just keep that to yourself?”

The Goff-St. The brown combination is too good for anyone to keep quiet about.