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Frisco, tx – Ceedee Lamb continues to prove one of the best receivers of all football, and a record, to that. But, for Dallas Cowboys, this off -season will again be to try to understand who can do the most damage as Robin in his Batman and, depending on the way the 2024 season has proven, it turns out to be a difficult task.
Jalen Tolbert and Jalen Brooks both made progress, as well as Kavontae Turpin, in their progress in the passing attack, and the Cowboys wrote Ryan Flournoy last April, after that by sending a choice of fourth round to the Panthers of Caroline to acquire Jonathan Mingo.
There are a lot of bodies in the room, but no final n ° 2, and this is a question that must be answered while Brandin Cooks is preparing for the free agency.
Going young with holders, writing another, signing a veteran or exchanging for one while they were cooked in 2023?
Brandin Cooks: Acquired via trade in 2023, after the defective ball date with Odell Beckham Jr., Cooks showed signs of what could be this season. However, his original campaign was not as exciting, because the veteran recipient fought against a knee infection which cost him part of the season and, on his return, there was not a lot of action thrown from the quarterrier of the Cooper Rush safeguard. His mentoring for Lamb and Tolbert remains invaluable, and he would be one of the most reasonable veterans options in the free agency – again.
[FYI: *Be sure to check out the entire ‘What’s Next?*‘ series as a primer to “Open Market”.]
Note: These players will be without restriction on March 13, unless a newly signed agreement with their outgoing team before this date.
Stefon Diggs: Ah, you knew that this name was going to make the list, if only for the romance of all this. Simply imagine a cowboys team that organizes both Stefon and Trevon Diggs in 2025 and, in addition, consider how crazy the practices would be all the pros being constantly aligning each other, driving to heights, only a blood brother can.
The problem with this image is not only the expected cost of $ 13 million a year (by Spotrac) to win the elder diggs, but the fact that, like the youngest Diggs, returns from a knee injury at the end of the season which makes the price requested potential a pill that is difficult to swallow, unless it decreases this to play alongside the little brother.
Keenan Allen: It is impossible not to like what Allen brings to a football team. About the same age as Diggs (early 1930s) and with six pro-bols pro in its name, Allen is the consumption pro and the definition of coherent production in the system to which he asked to operate. Consider his season “Down” in 2024 when he delivered seven touchdown and more than 700 yards in reception in 15 departures, and it is not difficult to decipher what Allen could be in tandem with the lamb. It is if you can work with the expected cost of $ 11 million a year.
Marquise Brown: This is an option that crosses the horizon of the event in addition to accessibility, at a expected annual price of $ 8 million, but it has a sort of cost. Of course, Brown can sometimes “Hollywood” and make his presence feel, as his career in the NFL on several occasions. It is if he can stay in the field, however. He fought injuries on several occasions and nothing more than in 2024, when he missed the start of the regular season except one due to a sternoclavicular injury before playing in the Super Bowl for the Chiefs. However, the old first round choice is young (27), extremely talented as a secondary option and cannot rightly order the same salary as Diggs or Allen.
Nick Westbrook-Ikhine: By keeping the expensive side of the spectrum, Westbrook landed about $ 3.5 million in expected prices, annually, and which could give it a solid chance to end up on cowboys radar – a team that will probably air and prefer, to add to the post through this year’s draft course. A non -drained talent that signed with the Titans in 2020, Westbrook was a second reliable option in Nashville and its nine receptions of 2024, a career in career, is more than literally all the other free agents appointed in this column; And he did it with a mixture of Will Levis and Mason Rudolph in the quarter.
Honorable mention: Deandre Hopkins, Darius Slayton – Two high -level names, but Hopkins experienced better days and both should order more than $ 15 million a year, so take a Sharpie and draw a thick black line through their names, in my opinion.
