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Report: CeeDee Lamb Signs with Dallas

Former Sooner All-American puts pen to paper on a $14 million deal
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Report: CeeDee Lamb Signs with Dallas
Report: CeeDee Lamb Signs with Dallas

Rookie wide receiver CeeDee Lamb has signed his first professional contract.

According to NFL insider Ian Rapoport, the former Oklahoma Sooner signed a four-year, fully guaranteed deal worth $14.01 million with the Dallas Cowboys.

The contract also includes a fifth-year option.

Lamb was the 17th pick in the NFL Draft. Cowboys ownership and management openly fawned about Lamb, repeatedly saying how shocked they were that he fell to them at No. 17.

Lamb was an All-American at OU in 2019, and was a two-time All-Big 12 performer for the Sooners as he finished his three-year career with 173 receptions (sixth in OU history) for 3,292 yards (third) and 32 touchdown catches (second).

Lamb’s career average of 19.0 yards per catch ranks first in the OU record book among players with more than 70 career receptions.

In Dallas, he’ll be paired with Pro Bowler Amari Cooper and 2019 NFL passing yards leader Dak Prescott, as well as running back Ezekiel Elliot, who leads the NFL in rushing since joining the league in 2016.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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