FRISCO, Texas — CeeDee Lamb said Thursday that rookie receivers Camden Brown and Anthony Smith are the players who come to him most to pick his brain, three days before the Dallas Cowboys open the season against the New York Giants.
Kickoff at MetLife Stadium is Sunday at 7:20 p.m. CT on NBC. Lamb is in his seventh season. Brown, an undrafted free agent out of Georgia Southern, made the initial 53-man roster. Smith was the Cowboys’ seventh-round pick out of East Carolina in April, 218th overall.
Lamb does not want to seem like he has all the answers, he said, because sometimes he does not.
“Cam Brown, Camden Brown, he does, and Anthony Smith, obviously the guys in my room,” Lamb said. “And I’m asking Flo questions. I don’t want to just seem like I have all the answers, because sometimes I don’t. And realistically, it’s just about us believing in one another and wanting to help. I’m always wanting to help the guys.
“Like, I want them boys to win just as bad as I want to win,” Lamb continued. “We in this together. I don’t see no competition on our side. It’s just we got to find a way to gel together and go win this ring. You can’t win that competing within the locker room. That’s weird.”
Ryan Flournoy, a sixth-round pick in 2024 out of Southeast Missouri State, caught 40 passes for 475 yards last season. He starts alongside Lamb and George Pickens.
Lamb was the 17th overall pick out of Oklahoma in 2020. He has 571 catches for 7,416 yards and 41 touchdowns in 95 regular-season games, according to Pro Football Reference.
Camden Brown Made The Cowboys As An Undrafted Rookie
Brown spent three seasons at Auburn, where he caught 26 passes for 289 yards and three touchdowns. He transferred to Georgia Southern for 2025 and caught 65 passes for 1,079 yards and 14 touchdowns, the most touchdown catches in the Sun Belt. He was the first Georgia Southern receiver with 1,000 receiving yards in a season.
In Dallas’ preseason opener against the Seattle Seahawks, Brown caught all three of his targets for 62 yards and two touchdowns, ProFootballTalk reported. One of the touchdowns was a one-handed catch in the end zone on a pass from Joe Milton III.
“The game’s not too big for him,” Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer said after that game, according to ProFootballTalk. “He does that every day in practice. We see it all the time. He’s been doing this the whole time. What I love about him is he does the little things, too. You watch him on special teams, in one-on-one drills, he realizes that’s how you make this football team.”
Smith spent four seasons at NC State and two at East Carolina. Dallas drafted him with a pick acquired from the Tennessee Titans, according to NFL.com. In 2025, he caught 64 passes for 1,053 yards and seven touchdowns and was a first-team All-American Conference pick. He was the Military Bowl MVP after a 156-yard, two-touchdown game, and he ran a 4.43-second 40-yard dash at his pro day.
Nick Sorensen On Camden Brown’s Next Step
Making the 48-man game-day roster is the next step for Brown. For rookies, punt and kickoff are completely different from college, Cowboys special teams coordinator Nick Sorensen said.
“We meet extra,” Sorensen said. “He’s really eager. I think so much of it as a rookie is just totally new. Everything is completely different. Like, punt is different, so therefore punt return, I’m talking about from college to pros. Kickoff is different, so kickoff return is different. So not only do these guys probably not do a lot of it, maybe they did like three or four years ago, like Anthony Smith, he had some gunner clips when he was a younger player at ECU. But they hadn’t done it in a few years, and it’s totally different.
“So it’s really just putting in the extra work, whether it’s obviously during practice, if you’re on the look team, but also we do a lot of pre- and post-practice stuff, too, and just getting reps, get more comfortable with it,” Sorensen added. “But I think he has everything that you’d want, like the mentality, the size, the speed. He’s very competitive, too. So I think he’s going to be just fine.”
Brown is from Monroe, Louisiana, and played high school football at St. Thomas Aquinas in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He began his college career at Auburn in 2022.
