Cowboys free company: Why Dallas may contemplate bringing again Randall Cobb

Randall Cobb is about to change into a free agent and may very well be very useful to his former head coach.

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  JessHaynie
  
• on February 18, 2023 4:00 pm

Even should you don’t suppose it’s their largest want, large receiver is definitely on everybody’s record for the Dallas Cowboys’ prime offseason priorities. They’ll must make at the least a few strikes to have a succesful group for 2023. Whereas hardly the flashiest addition they may make, might veteran Randall Cobb be a free agent that draws their consideration?

Cobb performed for Dallas in 2019, changing Cole Beasley because the slot receiver and rounding out the highest three with Amari Cooper and Michael Gallup. He had a really productive 12 months with 55 catches for 828 yards and three touchdowns. With Jason Witten spending that season in Monday Evening Soccer sales space, Cobb supplied rapid worth as an skilled possibility working beneath routes for Dak Prescott.

Regardless of the great numbers, Dallas didn’t re-sign Cobb the next offseason. They wound up drafting CeeDee Lamb with their first-round decide, seemingly planning to draft a WR someplace early all alongside. Cobb went on to spend 2020 with the Texans and has been with the Packers for the final two seasons, reuniting with Aaron Rodgers and the group the place he’s spent the vast majority of his profession.

From 2011-2018, Cobb additionally labored with present Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy. He was a valued member of that Packers’ offense for a few years. And now that McCarthy is taking a firmer grip on the offense in Dallas, might he be serious about Cobb’s presence to assist with that transition?

Granted, Cobb turns 33 years previous in August. However age didn’t cease Dallas from including T.Y. Hilton off the road final December. Regardless of having zero expertise with the Cowboys’ coaches, Hilton got here in at 33 and made a stable impression with restricted alternatives.

Now one may ask why McCarthy would need Cobb now if he didn’t need him again in 2020. However bear in mind, that was nonetheless Kellen Moore’s offense. Plus, coming off his sturdy 12 months with the Cowboys, Cobb was capable of get a three-year, $27 million contract from Houston. There was no approach the miserly Cowboys have been going to pay that a lot for an growing older receiver.

Three years later, Cobb couldn’t anticipate far more than the veteran minimal. And even when his bodily abilities have suffered with elevated age, his worth to the group may very well be extra in the best way of veteran management and particularly offering a bridge between his former coach and former teammates.

With Kellen Moore leaving Dallas for the Chargers, McCarthy is taking up play-calling and Brian Schottenheimer is now the offensive coordinator. We are going to little doubt see a shift in direction of extra of the offensive philosophy that McCarthy utilized in Inexperienced Bay, which Cobb lived and breathed for nearly a decade.

This could hardly be the one transfer Dallas ought to make at WR this offseason. They should be occupied with Michael Gallup’s 2022 struggles and contemplating somebody who might doubtlessly step in because the number-two receiver. At greatest, Cobb can be fourth on the depth chart and hopefully getting pushed for enjoying time by youthful guys like Jalen Tolbert and Simi Fehoko.

However given the query marks swirling round all of these different receivers, couldn’t a man like Randall Cobb present some worth? His age is a priority, however he has the distinctive circumstance of getting starred for Mike McCarthy in Inexperienced Bay and efficiently working with Dak Prescott, Michael Gallup, and others only a few years in the past in Dallas. So long as he nonetheless has some juice left on the sector, Cobb may get consideration from the Cowboys’ entrance workplace within the coming months.

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