ALLEN PARK >> Lions receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown has been one of the NFL’s most consistent producers over the last two seasons, and in his first game after signing a four-year extension worth $120 million with $77 million guaranteed, he turned in one of the least productive games of his career.

St. Brown was targeted six times and had three catches for 13 yards — his third-fewest in a game where he’s started — in a 26-20 overtime win against the Los Angeles Rams, while Jameson Williams exploded onto the scene with a career night of five receptions for 121 yards and a 52-yard touchdown.

The Lions stealing the win helped mitigate some of the frustration.

“A win is a win. A win is the most important thing for us to get to where we need to go, one week at a time,” St. Brown said. “Obviously, you’d love to have catches and whatnot, but we found a way to win.”

St. Brown is a two-time captain and is widely credited with being one of the players who have shaped Detroit’s hard-working, chip-on-its-shoulder culture.

But while his top goal is winning, it’s no secret that St. Brown also has very high standards for his own output. He wants the ball every play — which, to be fair, is kind of what you want from your No. 1 receiver — and makes no bones about the fact that he wants to be mentioned as one of the best receivers in the NFL. He was furious about initially being snubbed from the Pro Bowl last season and remains motivated for a draft-day slide that happened three years ago.

“He’s a leader, he’s a captain. He’s got the ‘C’ on his chest for a reason, and I think — I know he still wants the ball, of course he does, all those receivers want the ball,” head coach Dan Campbell said. “But I think he understands, when we’re able to win a game and he doesn’t get as involved as maybe he’d like, he’s good with it.

“We’re winning the game and we’re trying to win a Super Bowl this year.”

St. Brown said his final numbers weren’t for a lack of trying to get him the ball or because of anything in particular that the Rams did. One of his targets in the fourth quarter was intercepted by Rams safety John Johnson III, and on another, he slipped coming out of a cut and had to swat the ball down to avoid quarterback Jared Goff throwing another interception.

“I wouldn’t say they were doing anything too much. Maybe a little bit of cloud sometimes, but they were throwing a lot of different looks, different coverages on defense. Some plays we wanted to get to, we didn’t have the right look or we had a false start, so many little things that happened throughout the game,” St. Brown said. “It was just kind of unlucky. I slip on a route. So many things. It was just one of those games, but like I said, a win is a win, we’re happy.”

Offensive coordinator Ben Johnson said many of the passes to Williams “very easily could have gone to St. Brown,” it was just a matter of the Rams’ coverage. On Williams’ touchdown catch, he and St. Brown both ran the same route and both beat their defender — St. Brown even put his hand up to call for it — but with the safety help leaning toward St. Brown’s side of the field, it just ended up going to Williams.

“I’ve been around guys, particularly at that position in the past, that when they have a game that was below what they wanted it to be, they could pout, they could do this, that or the other,” Johnson said. “But immediately after the game, I don’t know if anybody had a bigger smile on his face than him. That’s what comes with wearing that ‘C’ on his chest and he’s a great example of what we want everybody on offense to be about.”

Williams said it meant a lot that St. Brown was happy for him despite a lackluster game for himself and is confident that St. Brown will be back to his old self very soon.

“That’s real. Because there are going to be days like that, you know? There’s going to be days like that for everybody. He was getting double covered…they had their eyes on him,” Williams said. “Somebody had to step up and make plays. The ball just came my way and I just made the plays that came my way. This week it might be different for him. They might look at somebody else, double somebody else, and it might be his week to go off for 200 (yards) or two touchdowns.”

There will be ample opportunity for St. Brown to rebound against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this weekend. All-Pro safety Antoine Winfield Jr. is expected to miss the game with a foot injury. Cornerback Bryce Hall is out for the year and Tampa had two other cornerbacks, Zyon McCollum (concussion protocol) and Josh Hayes (ankle), miss practice this week.

St. Brown won’t be taking the challenge lightly.

“Being banged up, I’ve learned not to really care about that or listen to that,” St. Brown said. “We played Green Bay last year and they were banged up too, and they came out to play. This is the NFL, everyone can play. There’s a reason why they’re here, so we’re not taking that easily or likely.”

Still, he’s confident that he’ll have a bounce-back performance in Week 2.

“I’m excited. I’m ready,” St. Brown said.