The Dallas Cowboys have a pair of wide receivers that is just about as good as anyone in the game of football.
Assuming both CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens stay on the field and Dak Prescott has no other injuries, they will likely do something that the group hasn’t had since 2019. They will both go over the 1,000-yard receiving mark.
For ESPN’s Mike Clay, in his 2025 projections, the Cowboys will have something they haven’t had since 2019 – two 1,000-yard receivers.
Clay projects Lamb to 1,436 yards and eight touchdowns from 117 receptions, and Pickens to have 1,023 yards and seven touchdowns from 72 receptions.
CeeDee will likely see far fewer double teams because George is on the other side, ready to cause havoc.
Long Time Ago
Having two 1,000-yard receivers for the first time since Amari Cooper and Michael Gallup did it six years ago would be quite the return for Dallas.
I bet you did not think it was going to be Cooper and Gallup as the last two guys both go over 1,000 yards in the same season.
The Cowboys gave Gallup a huge deal after that season, and it really hurt them in the long run.
Over his first three NFL seasons, Pickens eclipsed the 800-yard mark in each while hauling in a total of 174 passes and 12 touchdowns.
The best year of his career came in 2023 when he totaled 1,140 yards and five touchdowns on 106 targets. He even led the NFL with 18.1 yards per reception.
All of this, of course, is just a projection and who knows what will happen from now until the season starts in September?
Nonetheless, the time will not get any better for this Dallas team, and sure they are still super weak at running back, they have the best duo that Dak has maybe ever thrown to.
The defense will be a bit shaky until Trevon Diggs returns to 100%, but if you have a pair of WR both go for over 1,000 yards, you probably had a really good year on offense or were trailing in nearly every single game.
I think the offense is going to be really solid this season, and I am hoping on everything that I love, that all these guys can just play an entire year without missing a significant amount of time.
Think about it like this, Tee Higgins, in the last full season he played with Ja’Mar Chase on the other side of the field in 2022, had 109 targets, caught 74 for 1029 yards.
Higgs has missed a handful of games the last two seasons, so it was hard to pull the numbers from 2023 and 2024.
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I think your a little harsh on our RBs!! They’ll be better than you think!! We mite not have the best RB group in the NFL, but I guarantee we won’t have the worst either!! And we’ll have a better running game with this group than we’ve had in at least the last 2 or 3 years!! From the way most of you talk, I can guarantee our running game is gonna surprise a lot of people!! And I can’t wait for them to prove all the doubters wrong!!
And as far as our defense goes, I think they’ll be a lot better than most people think too!! And you said at least until Diggs returns to 100%, but I think we’ll be fine without Diggs!! Diggs has only gotten worse every year, and his play has dropped off even more after his first injury!! So I think we’ll be better off without him!! I think Kaiir Elam will come in and play better than Diggs has played the last few years!! And we still have Bland, even though his play has dropped off since his injury, but he didn’t have but 6 or 7 games to play after he got back from his injury, so it’s possible he can get back to his old self this year!! And then we have Shavon Revel…. I think we drafted him to take Diggs job, but it is possible that we drafted him to play opposite of Diggs so we don’t have to pay Bland!! I don’t think this front office wants to be paying 2 corners top of the market money, so one of Bland or Diggs is gonna be leaving, and Revel was drafted to take that spot!! But to get back to my point…. We also have Israel Mukuamu who is a lot better than he’s given credit for!! And after he shut down Chris Godwin in the playoffs, I’ll always be rooting for him to get more playing time!! So we have plenty of players to play in the secondary, and we really don’t need Diggs!! We can have Elam on one side, Mukuamu in the slot and Bland on the other side, or Bland in the slot and Mukuamu on the other side, and if Elam has any trouble then we can put Revel in his place, or if Elam plays fine and Bland keeps going down hill then Revel can take Blands place and Mukuamu can just be the slot guy!! And that’s just guys that can be starters, we have others who are good backups too, like Carson, and even he can be a starter if he can get just a little bit better!! He showed plenty of good stuff as a rookie, he just needs to put it all together!! But my point is, our defense is good, with all the good players we have on defense and the really good coaches we have on defense, we should have at least a top 10 defense!! And it could be even better when we get back Overshown, if he comes back this year!! But even without him and Diggs I still think we can have a top 10 defense!! I could be wrong about all of this stuff I said, but from what I’ve seen and know about these players and coaches, I really don’t think I am!! I think this team is gonna be a lot better than most people think!!
But as far as the receivers go, it is very possible that we will have 2 thousand yard receivers this year if Dak can stay healthy!! But it’s possible that we’ll only have one because our offensive coaches are guys that like to run the ball a lot!! And I think they’ll try to stick to that!! And another thing is that I think these guys are gonna try to keep from throwing the ball to Pickens as much as possible to see how he acts for one, and 2, I think they wanna resign him, but don’t wanna pay him so much, so if he has a bad year, we can sign him cheaper than what he would cost if he had a thousand yard season!! That’s what I would do…. I would find any way possible to get to be able to resign him to a new contract for as cheap as possible!! But who knows…. Maybe they just wanted to waste a 3rd round pick on a 1 year rental!! But I think wasting thar high of a draft pick on a 1 year rental would be stupid, so that’s why I would do whatever I could to get his price tag down as far as possible!! But I guess we’ll just have to see what happens!! Either way, I think Pickens and Lamb can be the best receiver duo in the NFL!! It would just suck to lose that after only one year!!
Astounding how it is missed that Dak having two competent receivers is the rare event. So, getting Dak 2 receivers is supposed to overcome the bad runners ands bad pass blocking offense line. The defense will be poor , so Dak will be running from opponent pass rushers and throwing , If that projects to 2 receivers getting 1000 yards each, then,,,ok.