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Dak Prescott excited to unveil elements CeeDee Lamb-George Pickens tandem brings Cowboys – Calvin Watkins, Dallas Morning News
Prescott is gearing up for what could be the best tandem of wide receivers he’s ever had.
FRISCO — You can tell when Dak Prescott is happy.
Check the football field and the Cowboys quarterback is throwing passes with a smile, knowing whose catching them.
Check the locker room when Prescott is raving about the talent running routes for him.
The Cowboys traded for George Pickens this offseason, giving them a dynamic wide receiver to pair with CeeDee Lamb and a potential near-unstoppable force for their offense.
“Huge. Huge. Yeah, very huge,” Prescott said of adding Pickens. “I mean looking at [the] guy’s tape, you see what he does, the kind of receiver he is. He’s going to win on one on ones. He can win two vs. one if he has to. Very, very talented guy. When you can add him alongside a CeeDee and the rest of the weapons we have, I’m super excited.”
In the last three seasons, no receiver has caught more passes than Lamb. He’s caught 343 passes over 49 games. Lamb has also picked up the third-most receiving yards (4,302) and fifth-most touchdowns (27) from 2022 to 2024.
Over that same time span in 48 games, Pickens has 2,841 receiving yards with 174 catches. Pickens brings speed and length to an offense that averaged 21.3 points per game with Prescott at quarterback before his injury in the eighth game of the 2024 season.
A healthy Prescott, with an improved running attack and combined with Pickens and Lamb, is dangerous for defenses.
Javonte Williams feels like himself again, excited by Cowboys’ playmakers – Tommy Yarrish, DallasCowboys.com
This is a good sign for the Cowboys likely RB1 to start the season.
FRISCO, Texas – Three years removed from an serious ACL, LCL and posterior lateral corner injury that he suffered in 2022, Javonte Williams arrives in Dallas feeling fully healthy and ready to produce for the Cowboys offense.
“I feel completely like myself…” Williams said. “I probably can get more flexible and things like that, but as far as healing up, that I feel like is done.”
In the two seasons he’s played following the injury for the Broncos, Williams posted 1,861 yards of offense to go along with nine touchdowns in 33 games. Everyone’s road to recovery is different, and now that he’s feeling back to himself, Williams is looking to prove himself once again.
“It just depends on who you are, it depends on your body… mine might take this amount of time, but somebody else might be different,” Williams said when asked about his recovery.
“It’s a lot that goes into it that people don’t really understand. Just to be back out here and have another opportunity and chance to show myself, I can’t ask for nothing else.”
In the early goings of OTAs, Williams has been taking a majority of the first team reps at running back. There are a lot of bodies in the room for the Cowboys, and it’s still early to tell how the Cowboys’ rushing attack will shape out.
“They didn’t really tell me too much about that stuff, all I know is just come in here and work every day, and everything else is going to take care of itself,” Williams said. “I’m not really big on the expectations and goals and stuff like that, I just go out and play well.”
In year of transition, Cowboys need Dak Prescott’s best, on and off the field – Saad Yousuf, The Athletic
2025 is a critical season for Dak Prescott.
Although the upcoming season may feel like a continuation for Prescott, it’s going to be a big step in his career. When Prescott entered the NFL, he talked about how crucial All-Pro center Travis Frederick was to the quarterback’s growth and instant success. Frederick, Smith and Martin took care of everything up front, from blocking to setting protections, so it was one less thing on Prescott’s plate.
This season, four of Prescott’s five projected starting offensive linemen have less than four years of NFL experience, including rookie Tyler Booker and second-year players Tyler Guyton and Cooper Beebe. Terence Steele, the senior member of the unit up front, entered the league in 2020. Whereas the offensive line once brought along Prescott, it’s now on him, especially after Martin’s retirement, to bring along the offensive line.
A similar sentiment holds true with the wide receiver group. Since Prescott’s third year in the NFL, the wide receiver room has featured the veteran leadership of Amari Cooper or Brandin Cooks in all but one season. Now, Lamb, who turned 26 years old last month and just completed his rookie deal, is the elder statesman of the position. Lamb is an unquestionably elite talent. Now, he’s tasked with tightening things up and carrying a group that includes Pickens, who has a checkered past but will be crucial to any success the Cowboys have in 2025.
Cowboys need latest reclamation project to pay off in order to field viable secondary – Ben Grimaldi, Cowboys Wire
Dallas will see their entire secondary elevate if Kaiir Elam plays well.
Cornerback is a position where the Dallas Cowboys could still use some help, despite OTAs kicking off this week. Injuries and questions about where each corner can and will line up has the position in flux. To try and combat those shortcomings, the team added pieces in the offseason, including trading for veteran Kaiir Elam, a former first-round pick.
Elam was highly regarded coming out of college, leading the Buffalo Bills to select him with the 23rd pick overall. Despite a solid rookie season where Elam started with two interceptions in his first six games, things have gone downhill since. Elam had picks in back-to-back games during Weeks 5 and 6 but hasn’t intercepted a pass since and was replaced in the Bills’ starting lineup. In the last two years, the young CB has started in just six games.
The big dip in production and play led the Bills to trade away a CB who is just 24-years old. In giving up fifth and seventh-round picks, the Cowboys were hoping a change of scenery could get Elam back to being the prospect he was when he entered the league.
Early indications are that’s exactly what’s happening. For whatever reason, Elam fell out of favor with the Bills, but he looks like he’s fitting in well with Dallas. Head coach Brian Schottenheimer singled out Elam ahead of OTAs as a reason to feel good about the CB group.
“I feel good about it,” Brian Schottenheimer said about the Cowboys CB depth.
Kaiir Elam has been “awesome for us,” mentioning his speed in the early phases in the offseason. Schottenheimer didn’t want to put a timeline on the injured guys. pic.twitter.com/FXOo1REsCx
— SleeperCowboys (@SleeperCowboys) May 20, 2025
In the first OTA session, Elam lined up as one of the starting outside CBs, an indication he’s ready to get back to his high level of play.
‘Seems the favorite’ – Cowboys’ quiet free agency signing already trending toward paying dividends after first OTAs practices – Mauricio Rodriguez, AtoZ Sports
Jack Sanborn appears to have a leg up on the competition at middle linebacker.
As usual, the Dallas Cowboys’ free agency in March was a very quiet one. The front office did pull off multiple trades and signings for former first-round picks, but each of them was a low-cost signing in an effort to acquire depth.
However, one of the quietest signings was that of linebacker Jack Sanborn. With only three starts in 2024 for the Chicago Bears, many brushed off Sanborn’s acquisition as not important.
Well, it’s time fans start thinking about him as a first-team linebacker, at least early in the season.
According to Calvin Watkins from Dallas Morning News, OTAs showed there’s an open competition for the middle linebacker spot between Sanborn and former first-rounder Kenneth Murray.
“Sanborn, the free agent pickup, seems the favorite,” Watkins wrote. “Murray, acquired in a trade, might surprise in training camp to make this a close race.”
Sanborn has a natural inside track for the job considering he’s already familiar with defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus’ scheme having been in Chicago the past three years.
Depth Chart: Where things stand at Offensive tackle – Nick Eatman, DallasCowboys.com
Things could get interesting at left tackle in the coming months.
Battle to Watch: At this point, Tyler Guyton needs to show everyone that he’s the left tackle for this team. That’s what the Cowboys drafted him to be last year and although his rookie season didn’t meet expectations, Guyton is still the player to watch at left tackle. Now, Brian Schottenheimer has said numerous times this offseason that the five best offensive linemen will start. So if Guyton isn’t among that group, it’s likely the Cowboys will go with another option and maybe that would be Asim Richards. But Guyton is the leader in the clubhouse and the Cowboys will give him every shot to keep it.
Time is Now: While you could also throw Guyton into this mix, let’s go with Asim Richards here. He’s the one on the outside looking in and it’s his third season. The Cowboys want him to be a rotational player and maybe the swing tackle but Richards won’t give up the left-tackle competition without a fight. But the “time is now” mantra works for Richards because if he doesn’t take advantage, the Cowboys will probably look at other options down the line.
