Every single one of those 1000+ yard seasons he was overwhelmingly the #1 WR on his team and was force fed the ball. There was one season in between though where he was the #2: when Kupp emerged in LAR 2019, Cooks had only 500 yards receiving despite playing over 700 snaps that year. He is not a full toolbox outside WR, he is a compliment to what Dallas already has.
Ridley’s monster season was bigger than anything Cooks has ever done by nearly 200 yards, and he didn’t even play all 16 games. On top of that, he was the #2 to Julio for more than half the season before Julio got hurt, where JJ was on pace for 1300 yards himself.
Ridley is 2 years removed from his big year, but not due to declining production. And the Dude is still only 28