20 Questions: 16, Where do Lamb and Pickens Rank as a Duo

[kskboys]

in the league...the best.
in cowboys history....3rd behind irvin/harper and drew/tony.

Ooooh, I don't know. I think Clarke/Howton and Hayes/McDonald are in there.

 

[ghst187]

Pre-season rankings are awesome. So important.

No real reason to even play the season….just look at rankings in July.

We’d have a lot more titles….

 

[StarOfGlory]

Top three. Rams and Bengals are in this conversation too.

 

[fivetwos]

We’d have a lot more titles….

That’s funnier than it actually sounds lol. Very correct

 

[ScotsCowboy]

1. Chase, Higgins
2. Lamb, Pickens
3. Nacua, Adams
4. Jefferson, Addison
5. St. Brown, Williams

After that, I’d give a mention to the new partnership of Brown and Doubs over at New England. That could be a great pairing.
JSN and Shaheed will also be interesting to watch after their first camp together.

 

[CT Dal Fan]

It's interesting because I think if you ranked the players, it would be something like

Chase
Puka
CD
Pickens
Davante
Higgins

I'm not sure if having the #3 and #4 WR is better than having #1 and #6 or whatever.

You can pick any two of these guys and have an elite WR corps.

 

[plasticman]

Last season the two Cowboys receivers had a combined 2500 receiving yards, almost the same as the Rams Nakua and Adams.

However, the Rams WRs doubled the Cowboys duo's scoring, 24 TDs to 12.

The Lions top two WRs also combined for that same 2500 yards. They scored a combined 18 TDs.

Any duo that played together last season will have an upper hand because we really don't know how a new duo will react.

How does a WR get a thousand yards in receptions and only scores 3 TDs? Perhaps Lamb's 47% catch percentage in the redzone answers that question.

The Cowboys can potentially have the best re3ceiving duo in 2026 only if they both remain healthy and Lamb regains his focus.

 

[LouBrown]

Last season the two Cowboys receivers had a combined 2500 receiving yards, almost the same as the Rams Nakua and Adams.

However, the Rams WRs doubled the Cowboys duo's scoring, 24 TDs to 12.

The Lions top two WRs also combined for that same 2500 yards. They scored a combined 18 TDs.

Any duo that played together last season will have an upper hand because we really don't know how a new duo will react.

How does a WR get a thousand yards in receptions and only scores 3 TDs? Perhaps Lamb's 47% catch percentage in the redzone answers that question.

The Cowboys can potentially have the best re3ceiving duo in 2026 only if they both remain healthy and Lamb regains his focus.

TDs is playcalling as much as anything.

Adams had 9 TDs of less than 5 yards. Those could just as easily have been runs

 

[blueblood70]

Does this take into account who is throwing g the ball, and the OL that protects them.

Look at Joe Burrow, and how many games he missed. And playing with, as well as the WR Duos they have, one of the NFL's worst OL if not the worst. And their WR duo still produced, so what if Joe played an entire season.

And not a knock on Dak, but a compliment in a way, but he had better protection. Though playing with what some say both OT's suck.
Many say how bad of a year Hurts had, but he too, plays behind what some call the best OL in the NFL.

Nice to backtrack out of that I mean come on dude what you want to count how many games Prescott's missed and you're right the offensive tackles are not good right now he's running for his life but all quarterbacks eventually have to take off and run and they're putting themselves at risk so we could just take that out of the equation as far as this conversation's going about the receivers..

But it does look like the people are picking Cincinnati Dallas and the Rams and there's no coincidence there that they all have really good quarterbacks as well...

But if you look to the 3rd target them at his Dallas rank clearly number one with Flournoy or do they all have a 3rd option that's just as good or better?

An honorable mention people are kind of right i'm not reading all of them but as good as Jefferson is Addison's not that bad on the other side and they've had a revolving door of quarterbacks...

 

[plasticman]

TDs is playcalling as much as anything.

Adams had 9 TDs of less than 5 yards. Those could just as easily have been runs

If they could have easily been runs then they would have been runs.

If a quarterback throws a pass there are three possible outcomes and two of them are bad so why would they throw?

Was it because of Adam's ability to get open?

 

[Cowboys5217]

Among the best in the league. Top 5 easily.

 

[TwentyOne]

I like this from the article: "They are two true WR1s that are also led by an All-Pro quarterback who, if not for a historically-bad defense in 2025, might've been in the MVP conversation (again). Everyone knows what Lamb can do, and that's why he's one of the best in the league at the position, regardless of who you ask."

If you like it then the author has done his job. Jerry will be happy and nobody will get fired.

 

[charron]

At least 3rd. And that should scare teams considering Pickens has been here 1 year.

 

[nate dizzle]

If Adams was younger, I would agree with those two.

What about Jefferson & Addison?

Adams is still a lethal RZ WR. Jefferson and Addison are nice, no doubt, but given the choice between the 2 combos I'd go with Puka/Adams any day.

 

[nate dizzle]

Does this take into account who is throwing g the ball, and the OL that protects them.

Look at Joe Burrow, and how many games he missed. And playing with, as well as the WR Duos they have, one of the NFL's worst OL if not the worst. And their WR duo still produced, so what if Joe played an entire season.

And not a knock on Dak, but a compliment in a way, but he had better protection. Though playing with what some say both OT's suck.
Many say how bad of a year Hurts had, but he too, plays behind what some call the best OL in the NFL.

I'll say this, if Burrow had even a moderately good offensive line he would undoubtedly have multiple rings and wouldn't have missed nearly as many games. Higgins and Chase would be unstoppable in that scenario.

 

[Kwyn]

I sure hope we get to see another great year of wideout play.

Probably the last for awhile

 

[McKDaddy]

Adams is still a lethal RZ WR. Jefferson and Addison are nice, no doubt, but given the choice between the 2 combos I'd go with Puka/Adams any day.

That's fair. Closer for me. If I went with Puka\Adams it would be because Puka is such a ridiculous play maker. Love watching him play.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Lamb regains his focus.

His drop percentage was 36th among receivers last year.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/no-16-where-does-ceedee-pickens-rank-as-wr-duos

This has been discussed in other threads. But this comes from the mothership.
Some good answers though.
Cowboys, Rams, Eagles, Lions, Bengals all get mentioned.

Lamb/Pickens?
NO. 1 !!!

 

[plasticman]

in the league...the best.
in cowboys history....3rd behind irvin/harper and drew/tony.

I think that Tony Hill is the most underrated receiver in Cowboys history.

The three-time Pro Bowler was the Cowboys leading receiver for eight consecutive seasons and is almost never mentioned. The only other receiver that can match that streak is Michael Irvin.