Cowboys’ CeeDee Lamb not ‘distracted’ by potential extension: ‘Just all about coming in and showing my worth’

The 2023 season shall be profession defining for CeeDee Lamb, the Dallas Cowboys’ 24-year-old best receiver. He has a faithful sidekick for the primary time in his position because the staff’s best receiver, due to the offseason business acquisition of Brandin Cooks, and it could not come at a greater time for Dallas’ newest No. 88 as he’s eligible for a moment contract for the primary time in his profession forward of his fourth NFL season. 

Outside of short of to have his monetary long run in a safe state, like many of us in and outdoor of the soccer phrase, Lamb says he is not phased by this new degree of his profession, particularly since Cowboys COO and EVP Stephen Jones made it transparent extensions for homegrown stars are in the works. 

“I’m going to be 100 percent honest, I’m not even distracted,” Lamb stated Thursday, by the use of The Athletic. “The money, definitely worried about it. But it’s not nothing that’s really on my mind every day that I wake up or when I come to the building. I don’t really think about how much money am I gonna make. It’s really just all about coming in and showing my worth, and then let everything else handle itself.”  

Lamb, the staff’s former first-round select in the 2020 draft, set profession highs around the board in 2022 with 107 catches, 1,359 receiving yards and 9 receiving touchdowns. That manufacturing earned him his moment profession Pro Bowl nod and Second Team All-Pro honors, his first All-Pro accolades in his profession. 

After Lamb’s 107 catches accounted for 30% of the Cowboys’ staff receptions, the second-highest price in the NFL in the back of 2022 First-Team All-Pro receiver Tyreek Hill’s 32% determine of the Miami Dolphins staff catches. Cooks has already earned rave opinions from teammates. No. 3 receiver Michael Gallup, the 27-year-old the Cowboys signed to a five-year, $57.5 million contract in the 2022 offseason in a while after tearing his ACL on the finish of the 2021 season, feels “springy again” now that he’s more or less a year-and-a-half got rid of from his knee damage. McCarthy additionally printed Thursday that 2022 third-round select wideout Jalen Tolbert “has made some really nice plays” in seven-on-seven and two-minute drills in OTAs, in step with The Athletic. 

Like he stated, all Lamb has to do is proceed to supply. If his 2023 output continues on an upward trajectory, he will have generational wealth faster moderately than later.