The final two seasons have seen CeeDee Lamb emerge as one of many NFL’s finest huge receivers, and he has carried out all of it with Brandin Cooks because the Robin to his Batman.
Whereas being among the finest wideouts within the league clearly says how good you might be, each workforce wants quite a lot of choices to work within the passing recreation. The Cowboys traded for Cooks two years in the past and he was a authentic risk in 2023, however this previous season was damaged for the workforce in quite a lot of methods.
Nonetheless issues in the end get put again collectively, they may require items that aren’t named Brandin Cooks. It had felt uncertain that he would return to Dallas and now we formally know that he received’t. He is returning to someplace, however it’s to the New Orleans Saints, with new head coach Kellen Moore.
A reunion in New Orleans: 11-year veteran WR Brandin Cooks is headed again to the #Saints, sources inform The Insiders.
Cooks returns to the franchise that drafted him within the first spherical in 2014. pic.twitter.com/5hz6eNP0nu
— Mike Garafolo (@MikeGarafolo) March 21, 2025
New Orleans was the workforce who initially drafted Cooks and the place his profession started. Curiously with Cooks becoming a member of a workforce he has performed for, even when the season goes poorly for him, he can have had a minimum of one 1,000-yard season for each workforce that he performed for sans the Cowboys.
Cooks was a authentic choice for Dallas again in 2023. Throughout that season he performed in 16 video games and had 54 receptions for 657 yards with eight touchdowns. That landing mark was probably the most he had in any season since his remaining one (clearly prior to now) in New Orleans approach again in 2016.
Cooks solely performed in 10 video games final 12 months and had 26 receptions for 259 yards with three scores. A change of surroundings might be not a nasty concept for everybody concerned.
With Cooks now formally out of the fold the Cowboys nonetheless must discover a running-mate for CeeDee Lamb. They probably wish to give Jonathan Mingo, who they traded a fourth-round decide for again ultimately season’s deadline, an opportunity and now have choices like Jalen Tolbert, Jalen Brooks and Ryan Flournoy. KaVontae Turpin has a brand new deal and a possible function on offense, however he isn’t a pure huge receiver when it comes to utilization. For what it’s price, the Cowboys did signal Parris Campbell in free company.
Might Dallas spend their first-round decide at wideout? Is that why they’re so snug being shallow there proper now? We’ll see.
