Dallas Cowboys select Oklahoma Sooners WR CeeDee Lamb with No. 17 overall pick in the NFL draft

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Oklahoma Sooners wide receiver CeeDee Lamb (2) flexes his muscles after he took a hit on a first quarter pass reception against the Baylor Bears in the Big 12 Championship at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Saturday, December 7, 2019.
Oklahoma Sooners wide receiver CeeDee Lamb (2) flexes his muscles after he took a hit on a first quarter pass reception against the Baylor Bears in the Big 12 Championship at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Saturday, December 7, 2019.(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)

Oklahoma wide receiver CeeDee Lamb has been selected by the Dallas Cowboys with the 17th overall pick in Round 1 of the 2020 NFL draft.

Dallas chose the dynamic wide receiver with defensive players such as Alabama safety Xavier McKinney and LSU defensive end K’Lavon Chaisson still on the board.
Lamb’s first-round selection means the Sooners have had receivers go on Day 1 in back-to-back years. The Ravens took Marquise Brown in the first round in the 2019 NFL draft.
The Richmond native was a 4-star prospect coming out of Foster High School in the 2017 recruiting class. Lamb’s first two seasons were spent partially in Brown’s shadow as he didn’t lead Oklahoma in receiving yards until 2019.
Lamb is coming off one of the best careers a receiver has ever had at Oklahoma. He has two of the top seven receiving yardage seasons in school history and is third all-time in program history in total receiving yards with 3,292. He’s also second all-time in touchdowns (32), trailing only Ryan Broyles’ 45 career scores.
Lamb’s 2019 season, though, vaulted him into the first round of the draft. He was a Biletnikoff Award finalist, catching 62 passes for 1,327 yards and 14 touchdowns. His 10-catch, three-touchdown effort against Texas in Arlington was the biggest reason the Sooners won that game. He also caught eight passes for 173 yards in the Big 12 Championship game against Baylor that OU won in overtime.

Scouting reports

NFL.com’s Lance Zeirlein: Explosive, three-level playmaker and vital cog in one of the most potent offensive machines in college football over the last three seasons. Lamb uses speed and separation quickness to dominate competition in a scheme that frequently created open throws in space. His routes will need to become more efficient and crisp to beat man-to-man coverage against NFL size and speed, but his ball skills and explosiveness with the ball in his hand should allow teams to scheme him into explosive opportunities right away. Lamb has the potential to play any of the three receiver positions as a pro and should benefit greatly from the NFL’s continued movement toward college-style passing attacks.

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