Dallas Cowboys acquire wide receiver Brandin Cooks from Houston Texans, CBS Sports NFL Insider Jonathan Jones Confirms. Houston will receive a 2023 fifth-round pick and a 2024 sixth-round pick as part of the deal, per ESPN.
Cooks, 29, had 57 receptions for 699 yards and three touchdowns despite missing four games last season. He slips into a Dallas smuggling group that also includes CeeDee Lamb, Michael Gallup and TY Hilton. Since joining the NFL, Cooks has recorded at least 42 receptions in each of his nine seasons. Six of his seasons ended north of 1,000 receiving yards.
The former No. 20 overall pick has now been traded four times in his career, after New Orleans traded him to enter the 2014 NFL Draft. He played for the Saints in his first three seasons in the NFL before being traded to the Patriots. After a year in New England (2017), he was dealt to the Rams, where he played two seasons, then was sent to the Texans, where he has played since 2020.
Cooks still has two years left on his contract with an average salary cap of $25.5 million over that span.
Houston ends up with Robert Woods and Nico Collins in the position. The Texans are loaded with draft picks as part of the Deshaun Watson trade, so general manager Nick Caserio has even more flexibility after the Cooks trade. Houston’s freshman head coach DeMeco Ryans is making some changes after the team went 3-13-1 last season. The team holds the No. 2 and No. 12 overall selections in the first round of the 2023 NFL Draft.
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Cooks’ numbers last season were his lowest totals since the 2019 season, the year before he moved to Houston. Cooks was frustrated with the organization after not being dealt with by the deadline, missing a game for personal reasons. Now the receiver will have a fresh start, this time in Dallas.
