Watch: Lions Pro Bowler lists all 16 WRs drafted before him

"I have it written down in my notebook," St. Brown said on the podcast. "I got 'round four, pick 112, never forget.' Then I got all the receivers 1-16 with their names and where they went to school, and I read it every day."

After winning eight of their last 10 games last season, and with the departure of Aaron Rodgers to the New York Jets, St. Brown and the Lions are favored to win the NFC North for the first time since 1993, per BetMGM. 

The are solid reasons for this. 

Detroit lost running backs Jamaal Williams and D'Andre Swift this offseason but replaced that tandem with a rookie/veteran combination of Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery. Despite new faces in the backfield, there is continuity between St. Brown, quarterback Jared Goff (who made his first Pro Bowl since 2018 last season) and the coaching staff.

Head coach Dan Campbell is in his third year, while offensive coordinator Ben Johnson is back after helping lead Detroit to the fifth-most points per game in his first season. Campbell said earlier this month that the offense is well ahead of where it was this time last year. 

 "We're further along with the details of what we do," he said per Pro Football Talk. "We're in 202 instead of 101."

The biggest hurdle in the division will likely be the Minnesota Vikings. 

Minnesota boasts the only other quarterback/wide receiver duo that should compete with Detroit in Kirk Cousins and Justin Jefferson. The Vikings also added an exciting prospect via the draft in wideout Jordan Addison as another weapon for Cousins. 

The difference between the teams will be who improves the most on defense. Detroit and Minnesota allowed the most and second-most yards per game in 2022, with both finishing in the top five most points allowed per game.  

With the NFC North as wide open as it has been in many years, the time is now for the Lions to end a two-decade drought.