{"id":401420,"date":"2026-08-08T22:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T22:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/401420\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T22:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T22:02:08","slug":"dallas-cowboys-fans-expect-big-things-from-caleb-downs-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/401420\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys fans expect big things from Caleb Downs this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Is it possible we\u2019re hyping Caleb Downs up too much?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It is a legitimate question considering how absolutely giddy Dallas Cowboys fans have been about getting Downs in the draft. It felt mostly like a pipe dream before the draft, but now we are living in the reality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Downs has been called the best defensive player in the draft, one of the highest football IQ rookies in a long time, and various other accolades, even the lofty \u2018generational player\u2019. That\u2019s a lot to heap upon a rookie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">But we\u2019re going to heap some more. We asked you where Downs would end up in the Defensive Rookie of the Year vote at the end of 2026. A majority of Cowboys fans (53%) think he will outright win it! Another 25% thought he would finish somewhere between third and fifth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Bonus question: Will Downs be the MVP of the Dallas defense? Or will someone else rise to the top? Let us know who you think the defensive MVP for Dallas will be. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is it possible we\u2019re hyping Caleb Downs up too much? It is a legitimate question considering how absolutely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,669,104,103],"class_list":["post-401420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-cowboys-roster","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}