{"id":71595,"date":"2025-08-10T04:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T04:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/71595\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T04:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T04:43:07","slug":"ceedee-lamb-in-street-garb-flagged-after-getting-hit-by-official-on-sideline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/71595\/","title":{"rendered":"CeeDee Lamb, in street garb, flagged after getting hit by official on sideline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INGLEWOOD, Calif. &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4241389\/ceedee-lamb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CeeDee Lamb<\/a> took a big hit and committed a penalty in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/dal\/dallas-cowboys\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a>&#8216; preseason opener &#8212; even though the star receiver wasn&#8217;t playing.<\/p>\n<p>A sprinting official ran straight into Lamb&#8217;s back when the four-time Pro Bowl receiver wandered too close to the field during the second quarter of the Cowboys&#8217; game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/lar\/los-angeles-rams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Rams<\/a> at SoFi Stadium on Saturday night, resulting in a 15-yard penalty to Dallas for making contact with an official.<\/p>\n<p>Dressed in street clothes, Lamb was watching Joe Milton&#8217;s deep pass to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4426485\/jonathan-mingo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Mingo<\/a> and signaling to his teammates while standing in the white paint on the edge of the sideline. The official was tracking the play while he ran, and he didn&#8217;t see Lamb before he knocked down the wideout with a big hit to the back.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/45703353\/2025-nfl-training-camp-dallas-cowboys-updates-buzz-intel-position-battles\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/r1524047_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lamb got up with no apparent ill effects, laughing about the collision with his teammates. Dallas was still whistled for unsportsmanlike conduct, which took 15 yards off the Cowboys&#8217; 51-yard gain for Los Angeles defensive back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4241008\/shaun-jolly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shaun Jolly<\/a>&#8216;s pass interference on Mingo.<\/p>\n<p>Lamb, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/2577417\/dak-prescott\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dak Prescott<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4426354\/george-pickens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George Pickens<\/a> and most of the Cowboys&#8217; key players aren&#8217;t participating in the preseason opener.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INGLEWOOD, Calif. &#8212; CeeDee Lamb took a big hit and committed a penalty in the Dallas Cowboys&#8216; preseason&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-71595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}