Hey, bros? I'm going to point out something about Ceedee Lamb's production over his still young career. I'm not necessarily suggesting anything. I'm just providing the numbers. You can make of it what you wish. You can think its meaningful or meaningless. You can be okay with the discussion or come at me and deal with the Pennsylvania Hands Exchange.
~no hands neck crack~
Now on to Lamb. A couple of months ago he was a fraud #1 WR around here and of course now he's one of the top 10 WRs in the game. That's the way we (you) roll.
He's really matured into a dominant player. We're watching him grow before our eyes. This guy is so much better than Drew Pearson.
But check this out. In Lamb's rookie year he was targeted 111 times. Coincidentally he's also been targeted 111 times so far this year. Here is his production with equal opportunity as a wide eyed rookie to now a vet #1...
2020: 74-935-5
2022: 69-928-6
You can reference his stats here.
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/L/LambCe00.htm
Now before anyone says it, he's doing it now as the lead dog and getting that attention by defenses. He's also carrying more of a load with being targeted as many times in 12 games this year as he was in all of 2020. Some of you may think playing with Cooper Rush for 5 games this year helps explain it too but in 2020 Lamb had Andy Dalton for 9 and DiNucci and Gilbert for 1 each.
Maybe you think just attracting the attention as the 1 without Amari Cooper there to free you up explains this but aren't you at least a little bit surprised that this version of Ceedee in his 3rd year hasn't been any more productive on a per target basis than his rookie year with that motley crue of quarterbacks?
I certainly was.
Cowboys!