CeeDee Lamb continues to produce at a high level, even in spite of challenging circumstances for the Cowboys this season.
It is not a secret that this season has been a challenge for the Dallas Cowboys. The front office spent quite literally the entire offseason dragging their feet on important extensions for CeeDee Lamb and Dak Prescott, both deals that they ultimately wound up doing and theoretically paid more for because of their delays.
Cowboys fans are well aware of how frugal the team was in free agency in how they did not sign many external players, in fact they did not sign many at all as they let a lot of their own talent walk. When it comes to the actual football, surely you have seen that the early part of the season was a disaster for the team and that injuries have exacerbated it. It reached the point that much of what they have done since mid-November (if not earlier) has felt meaningless relative to the overall actual goal.
In spite of all of this, the Cowboys have seen some tremendous performances from two of their most important cornerstones in Micah Parsons and the aforementioned CeeDee Lamb. Parsons is on his way to his own extension conversations, the Cowboys are already all over the place with how they are speaking about him as an overall brain trust, but the latter is turning in one of his finest campaigns even amid all of the chaos.
CeeDee Lamb is having one of his best individual seasons to date
Part of the reason you pay players like CeeDee Lamb is because you expect them to elevate things around them. Be the rising tide that lifts the other boats.
In the game of football an individual player can only do so much, but there is no question that Lamb is trying his best to achieve the challenge at hand. We are at a point now where Lamb has had to operate in six full games without his franchise quarterback throwing him passes, something that clearly impacts his abilities as a wide receiver, and if you looked at his statistics you would have no idea that this was the case.
Here are the first 14 games of each season of Lamb’s career:
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It goes without saying that last season – the greatest statistical season that any Cowboys wide receiver has ever had – was always going to be difficult to match for Lamb, so that he isn’t there is not exactly shocking.
But consider that Lamb’s yardage output these days is higher to date than any season before save for 2023. He has matched the touchdown total from the non-2023 years as well to this point on the season. He has significantly more receptions than his previous high if we exclude 2023 once more.
You pay players like Lamb for them to not skip a beat when the chaos is encircling them the way that it has engulfed him. He is delivering in every sense that he can and should be in consideration for individual honors like a Pro Bowl nod or All-Pro recognition.
Obviously, Cooper Rush deserves some credit here for being able to help put Lamb in positions to succeed over the last six games. Mike McCarthy is also due some props, but it seems like nobody on earth is willing to say that Mike McCarthy deserves even a high five for his efforts with this team.
Kudos to Lamb for continuing to not only succeed, but to do so at as high of a level as he ever has. Seeing that level of fight through what this season has been is a sign of hope for the future.
