CeeDee Lamb is already an extremely skilled wide receiver as he enters his rookie season with the Dallas Cowboys. After making a spectacular grab in training camp, Lamb iterated that you have to ‘expect the unexpected' as a wide receiver.
“I feel like as a receiver, you have to expect the unexpected,” Lamb told ESPN’s Todd Archer. “No matter where the ball is, it's your job to catch it. The quarterback has done all the hard parts. He got the ball out of his hands. He made checks. He did everything else. Now it's you. Just understanding that everything is not going to go as planned and the ball is not going to be where it needs to be all the time. Prepare myself for the worst, and when the best happens, it feels great.”
Apparently in practice, Lamb made a remarkable catch on an errant pass from Dak Prescott. While some would say that Lamb bailed out Prescott on a bad throw, the rookie pass-catcher believes it's his job to make the play no matter what.
That attitude has helped Lamb become a dynamic wide receiver on the football field. In his final season at Oklahoma in 2019, Lamb hauled in 62 passes for 1,327 yards and 14 touchdowns. His 21.4 yards per reception were the third-most in college football a season ago.
Upon being selected with the No. 17 pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, Lamb is forming a talented receiving trio with Amari Cooper and Michael Gallup. And even though Prescott is known as an accurate passer, completing 65-plus percent of his passes in three of his first four seasons, he'll be glad to have a weapon like Lamb to target in the passing attack.
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