'Very Rewarding!' CeeDee Lamb Leads 9 Cowboys with 1st- And 2nd-Team All-Pro Honors
FRISCO - Nine players from the Dallas Cowboys have made the AP All-Pro Squad as either first- or second-teamers, it was announced Friday.
CeeDee Lamb, DaRon Bland, Zack Martin and Brandon Aubrey earned first-team honors. Dak Prescott, Tyron Smith, Tyler Smith, Micah Parsons and Bryan Anger are second-teamers.
Lamb earns his first AP All-Pro first-team honor after a career year that saw him catch a league-leading 135 receptions for 1,749 yards and 12 touchdowns. His receptions and receiving yards totals set franchise records, breaking marks set by Michael Irvin back in 1995. Lamb was a second-team All-Pro in 2022, but jumped up to the first-team in 2023.
“It’s very rewarding,” said Lamb, who led the NFL with 135 receptions, with 1,749 yards and 12 touchdowns. “Obviously, all the hard work has paid off. It’s humbling, also.”
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Bland earns his first AP All-Pro first-team honor after leading the NFL with nine interceptions - highlighted by his NFL-record five pick-6's.
Martin gets his seventh AP All-Pro first-team honor here, meaning he now ties Bob Lilly and Randy White for the most AP All-Pro first-team nods in franchise history.
The rookie Aubrey's 36 makes on the season led the NFL and his 99 kickoff touchbacks set a single-season NFL record.
Prescott just missed making the first-team, but his AP All-Pro second-team honor gets him on one of the teams for the first time in his career. He led the NFL in TD passes with 36 while throwing for 4,516 yards and leading his team to a 12-5 record.
Tyron Smith has been a perennial honoree. Youngster Tyler Smith makes his first All-Pro team. Parsons missed out on a first-team honor for the first time in his three-year career. Anger set a career-high with a punting average of 51.4 yards.
