You can say Michael Irvin approves of CeeDee Lamb as No. 88, the Dallas Cowboys quantity he popularized. And, if you happen to did, you’d be monstrously understating the case.
To be clear, the flamboyant Corridor-of-Famer believes the first-round rookie has the upside of those that donned the digits earlier than him: Irvin, Drew Pearson, and Dez Bryant — mixed.
“I like this child. I ain’t speaking about I like this child, I like this child,” Irvin stated of Lamb on ESPN’s First Tackle Friday, by way of The Athletic. “I often name all of the younger broad receivers; earlier than I may try this, CeeDee known as me. We’ve had a number of conversations. I like the child. He’s going to be precisely what Dallas wants … Amari Cooper is a No. 1 (broad receiver). CeeDee Lamb is most undoubtedly a No. 1. This dude is a mixture of all three of these 88s. He can play exterior and he could make these Hail Mary kind performs like Drew Pearson. He can go up within the air and get the ball like Dez Bryant. And he’s a route-tree skilled like Michael Irvin. This child has manufacturing within the slot and out broad. He’s going to be the No. 1 proper there with Amari Cooper. (The Cowboys) are taking part in with two No. 1 receivers as a result of 88 is just a No. 1.”
How’s that for a rubber-stamp approval?
It’s been this type of week for Lamb, the 17th total choice on this yr’s draft who’s drawn NFL comparisons starting from Chad Johnson to DeAndre Hopkins to Jerry Rice. Throw within the aforementioned Cowboys legends.
Lamb wished to put on No. 10 earlier than Dallas proprietor/GM Jerry Jones interjected. At Jones’ behest, the stud Oklahoma product assumed 88 in honor of his boss’s late good friend and former school teammate, Jerry Lamb (no relation).
Not solely was Lamb lucky sufficient to land in a Cowboys offense buoyed by Cooper, Michael Gallup, Ezekiel Elliott, and Dak Prescott, he was blessed to inherit a pair of All-World mentors in Irvin and Bryant.
“I can’t really feel no means however be supportive of lamb and the remainder of these younger stars that’s getting into the league.. I imagine it’s my job to assist them succeed as a lot on and off the sector,” Bryant tweeted Thursday.
If Lamb is even half pretty much as good as GOATs like Irvin and Rice, the Cowboys might be doing cartwheels. Greater than they’re now.
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