CeeDee Lamb added another line to his Cowboys legacy Sunday night, even in a 23-13 loss to the Packers that pushed Dallas to a second straight defeat.
The box score shows a busy night for Lamb: nine catches for 70 yards. It also shows just how much Dak Prescott leaned on him, with Lamb drawing 18 targets, the most on the season for Prescott’s No. 88-heavy offense.
That volume moved Lamb to 48 receptions on the year, third-most in the NFL behind Jaxon Smith-Njigba and Trey McBride, who are tied at 49. His 577 receiving yards also rank third, trailing only Smith-Njigba’s 717 and Chris Olave’s 580.
But the bigger moment for Lamb came late, when his final reception of the night - a 7-yard catch on Dallas’ last offensive drive - pushed him to 7,993 career receiving yards. That number moved him past Tony Hill for third place on the Cowboys’ all-time receiving yards list.
Lamb entered the season with 7,416 career receiving yards, already the most by any Cowboys player through his first six seasons and the eighth-most by any player in NFL history over that span. He began climbing the franchise list right away, opening the season with 44 yards against the Giants to pass Dez Bryant and move into the top five.
Then in Week 4, during his 17-catch, 189-yard eruption against the Texans, he passed Drew Pearson. On Sunday, Hill was the next name to fall.
The milestone puts Lamb behind only Michael Irvin, who finished with 11,904 receiving yards, and Jason Witten, who sits atop the franchise list with 12,977. Lamb is only 27, and he reached third place in just 101 regular-season games.
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