The Ringer has listed the 8 aging players that need a bounceback season and a former Kentucky Football great is on the list.
Randall Cobb is beginning his first season with the Dallas Cowboys after playing 8 seasons with the Green Bay Packers.
This is the year to show the league that he is still an effective piece to the Dallas passing game.
At 28, Cobb checks in as the youngest player on this list. The former Packer must prove that he’s still got plenty of gas in the tank on a one-year, $5 million deal in Dallas. Green Bay let the eight-year vet walk in free agency after 38 catches, 383 yards, and two touchdowns in nine games last year—a season marred by concussion and hamstring injuries. Cobb’s performance dwindled even when he was on the field, as he notched career lows in receptions per game (4.2), yards per game (42.6), and yards per target (6.3) while watching his catch rate drop to 62.3 percent—second worst of his career.
But there’s plenty of reason to believe Cobb can resuscitate his career with the Cowboys, who lost Cole Beasley (who recorded 87 targets in 2018) to the Bills in free agency. And so far, the chemistry between Cobb and Dallas quarterback Dak Prescott has reportedly been strong. With the team’s receiver depth chart muddled after clear-cut no. 1 Amari Cooper, the Cowboys could lean hard on a veteran player like Cobb to master the necessary nuances of the passing game and provide Prescott with a security blanket and playmaker over the middle. Age and injury have robbed Cobb of some of the elusiveness he displayed early in his career, but the former college quarterback is a savvy route runner who understands defensive coverage schemes and how to exploit them. That could be the edge he needs to bounce back in Dallas.
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