{"id":19777,"date":"2025-07-24T05:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T05:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/19777\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T05:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T05:38:08","slug":"ceedee-lamb-im-a-dominant-receiver-and-will-remind-you-of-that-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/19777\/","title":{"rendered":"CeeDee Lamb: I’m a dominant receiver and will remind you of that this year"},"content":{"rendered":"

CeeDee Lamb missed all of training camp last year while awaiting a contract extension. That didn\u2019t come until 12 days before the season opener.<\/p>\n

He did not have a 100-yard game in the Cowboys\u2019 first six games and averaged five catches for 78 yards with two touchdowns in that span. <\/p>\n

Lamb acknowledged the obvious Wednesday: His slow start came because he didn\u2019t get reps with quarterback Dak Prescott last summer.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt first, I didn\u2019t, I didn\u2019t believe it, but obviously I was a little oblivious to the truth<\/a>,\u201d Lamb said, via Tommy Yarrish of the team website. \u201cI can be as strong, as fast, as explosive as I want to be, but if I can\u2019t control it to where Dak understands how explosive or how in and out my breaks I can be, I think I did that essentially just for me, and it\u2019s never just for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lamb extended his streak of seasons with 100 receptions and 1,000 yards to three despite Prescott missing nine games with a torn hamstring and Lamb missing the final two games with a shoulder injury. <\/p>\n

Prescott and Lamb are fully healthy and plan to stay that way this season. The last time they did that \u2014 in 2023 \u2014 Prescott finished second in MVP voting after throwing a league-leading 36 touchdowns and Lamb had a league-leading 135 receptions for 1,749 yards and 12 touchdowns.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like the league knows what happens when I\u2019m healthy, and I have Dak for a whole season,\u201d Lamb said. \u201cBut if you don\u2019t, I will happily show you what it\u2019s going to be like this year. Honestly, I\u2019m a dominant receiver. I don\u2019t like to speak highly of myself, but I can\u2019t wait to show you guys.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CeeDee Lamb missed all of training camp last year while awaiting a contract extension. That didn\u2019t come until…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-19777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}