‘First Take’ Sorry For Showing Old Brandin Cooks Highlight During Cowboys Segment

'First Take' was tricked by a viral tweet during Tuesday's show.

‘First Take’ shows an old highlight of Brandin Cooks catching a pass from Dak Prescott. / ESPN / YouTub

NFL teams are starting training camp this week and everyone is excited to see highlights start to trickle in. This includes the folks at ESPN's First Take who were so enthusiastic they ran a two-year old highlight from Dallas Cowboys training camp thinking it had happened on Monday despite the fact that camp didn't start until Tuesday.

Here's how that happened.

X user @FegSZN was posting old Cowboys training highlights on Monday, passing them off as new. Two of them had a few hundred thousand views. One had over a million with a caption saying new receiver George Pickens had caught a long pass from quarterback Dak Prescott on the first play of camp.

First play of Cowboys Training Camp is a Dak Prescott BOMB to George Pickens 👀👀 pic.twitter.com/Vt9WIajpmP

— FergSZN (@FergSZN) July 21, 2025

While you can't see it here, if you click over to X, you'll notice there's a name below the video. if you click on that you'll see that the video was originally posted on July 31, 2023 and Brandin Cooks, who currently plays for the New Orleans Saints, is the player who caught the pass.

Dak Prescott hits Brandin Cooks on a DEEP BALL for a huge gain. Much to the delight of @IamSTANBACK, who loved the route and the throw. #CowboysCamp pic.twitter.com/YEfEDKrehj

— Kyle Youmans (@Kyle_Youmans) July 31, 2023

Without Stephen A. Smith there to fill every moment of silence, this clip was worked into Tuesday's show about 15-minutes into a 20-plus minute segment about the Cowboys. @FergSZN is credited for the video.

All they had to do was click. Instead, they let Molly Qerim narrate a two-year old play while telling the audience it was new, misidentified the player involved and credited someone who didn't own the video.

Eventually someone pointed at least part of the error out and Qerim apologized for saying that it was Pickens instead of Cooks, with no mention that the video was actually old.

First Take had a bit of a slip up this morning, claiming George Pickens was on the receiving end of this touchdown pass by Dak Prescott during training camp. He was not 😬

Molly Qerim issued a correction later in the show. pic.twitter.com/syyf2JEmor

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) July 22, 2025

Oops.

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