The Cowboys’ receiving corps looks different than it did last season.
The Cowboys traded Amari Cooper to Cleveland. They wanted to keep Cedrick Wilson, but he left in free agency for the Dolphins. They retained Michael Gallup and signed free agent James Washington.
“This is the hardest part of the league to me, watching teammates, watching friends, watching men you’ve grown with over the past few years, on the field and off the field, leave,’’ Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott said Monday, via David Moore of the Dallas Morning News. “I’m excited for them, their next chapters. They’ll do great things.
“And I’m excited for this team.’’
Cooper was the league’s highest-paid receiver in 2021 with a $20 million base salary and a $22 million cap number. Yet, CeeDee Lamb was the Cowboys’ leading receiver.
That played into the Cowboys’ thinking with Cooper.
“Look at his trajectory,’’ Cowboys coach McCarthy told Moore this weekend. “Look at what he’s done…