Cowboys acquire WR Brandin Cooks from the Texans

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This move now allows the team to enter this year’s draft without having to target a wide receiver early. Additionally, it means the team won’t have to rely on a rookie wideout to make an impact early on, and they can focus on other positions.

But expect the team still target someone in the later rounds because you need to prepare for the future.

Expect Cooks to slide into the WR2 role and be a guy who can take the top off for the Cowboys. Although he is an older player (in NFL years), he still garners respect around the league from opposing defenses.

If you peek at his resume, you find that Cooks has only failed to reach 1,000-plus yards in three seasons during his nine-year career. While one of those seasons was last season, fans shouldn’t be worried since he was on a horrible Texans team.

And they had a revolving door at QB and were just a flat-out mess, so I can understand why Cooks likely wanted to book it out there.

But the most ironic and comical thing for me is that his down-year in receiving last season (699 yards) would have been second behind wideout CeeDee Lamb if he were on the team last season.

So, imagine if Cooks can reach 1,000 yards again? We may be talking about another pair of 1,000 WRs next season — which is always great.

Nonetheless, I’m going to prematurely jump the gun and label this trade as one of the best we have seen this NFL off-season.

You’re getting an experienced wideout for the price of two late-round picks for players you likely didn’t see hit the field this upcoming season. And if I may add, it feels nice to see the team being aggressive in team-building.

Now am I ready to say, “It’s our year?” Nope, not yet. Some other moves need to be made still in other personnel groups, but I’m happy that I won’t have to watch Quarterback Dak Prescott force-feed Lamb anymore.

With Cooks, Lamb, and Michael Gallup — you can argue that’s a solid trio. Especially if Gallup returns to form, then we’re talking business.

Welcome to Jerry World, Brandin. Now please go “cook” some defensive backs for us.