- CeeDee Lamb is one of the best well-rounded young wide receivers: Lamb has improved each season and is still only 24 years old.
- Lamb will have different teammates around him: The Dallas Cowboys added veteran Brandin Cooks while letting a number of other players leave in free agency.
- Mike McCarthy is the new play-caller: If McCarthy changes the offense to be a little more similar to his old Green Bay Packers teams, then Lamb has the potential to put up even bigger numbers.
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CeeDee Lamb‘s player outlook
Lamb is one of the best young wide receivers in the NFL.
- He averaged 17.7 PPR points per game last season, which ranked sixth out of 151 wide receivers with at least 10 games played.
- He’s been particularly good at making big plays — 6.4% of his routes run have turned into 15-plus-yard receptions over the last two seasons. That ranks third-highest among receivers in that time.
- Part of this has been due to his ability to avoid tackles, as his 0.033 avoided tackles per route run in that time ranked fourth-most.
- He played almost exclusively from the slot as a rookie. He switched to playing mostly on the outside in his sophomore season. Last year, he played slightly more in the slot compared to the outside.
- He averaged a league-leading 51 receiving yards from the slot per game last season.
- His career receiving grade is above 80.0 while lined up both out wide and in the slot.
- His PFF receiving grade has improved each season. He achieved an 87.0 grade last season, which ranked eighth among wide receivers.
- He joined the NFL at a young age, and he is only 24 years old despite already playing three seasons in the league.
- Four of the seven players ahead of him in PFF grade are 29 years old or older, making Lamb one of the top-four young receivers in the NFL.
- His route tree is more diverse than some of the other receivers ahead of him.
- Hitch routes have made up 17.9% of his targets in his career and none of his other routes are above 13%. Compared to someone like Amon-Ra St. Brown, 24.4% of his career targets have come from out routes, while another 17.1% are from crossing routes and 15.7% from hitches.
- It wouldn’t be surprising if Lamb joins the top-five NFL receivers this season, and stays among the best in the league for years to come.
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