{"id":291951,"date":"2025-08-16T05:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T05:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/291951\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T05:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T05:27:12","slug":"see-which-dallas-cowboys-positional-groups-rank-among-the-nfls-best-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/291951\/","title":{"rendered":"See which Dallas Cowboys\u2019 positional groups rank among the NFL\u2019s best, worst"},"content":{"rendered":"

What are the 2025 Dallas Cowboys<\/a> strengths? Their weaknesses?<\/p>\n

A recent ranking<\/a> of all the offensive and defensive positional groups in the NFL by ESPN senior writer Mike Clay, gives some insight into those questions.<\/p>\n

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Cowboys\u2019 wide receiver room, led by All-Pro CeeDee Lamb<\/a> and newly-acquired WR2 George Pickens<\/a> is the team\u2019s best rated unit. They come as the ninth best in the league, with the Cincinnati Bengals\u2019 room, including the vaunted duo of Ja\u2019Marr Chase and Tee Higgins, comes in the top spot.<\/p>\n

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Their worst unit? Running back, where they come in at No. 32 and dead last in Clay\u2019s rankings. <\/p>\n

\u201cRunning back remained a low-priority position for Dallas this past offseason. Out is Rico Dowdle and in are Javonte Williams, Miles Sanders and Day 3 rookie Jaydon Blue,\u201d Clay writes.<\/p>\n

Clay then touched on Williams\u2019 recent inefficiency (3.6 yards per attempt) and Sanders\u2019 lack of production in Carolina (205 yards and 2 TDs in 11 games), concluding that Blue might end up seeing significant action in year one out of Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Overall, Clay ranked the Cowboys\u2019 positional groups at No. 17 in the league, right in the middle of the pack. With the overall ranking weighted for positional importance, Dallas\u2019 ranking is buoyed by the team\u2019s relative strength (No. 11) at the quarterback position. While most of the team\u2019s individual units were relatively middling, other outliers for Dallas were edge rusher on the positive side (No. 12) and linebacker on the negative end (No. 28).<\/p>\n

Find more Cowboys coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What are the 2025 Dallas Cowboys strengths? Their weaknesses? A recent ranking of all the offensive and defensive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066],"tags":[2009,1121,230,229,257,2461,7,467,6,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-291951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-cowboys","8":"tag-brief","9":"tag-ceedee-lamb","10":"tag-cowboys","11":"tag-dallas","12":"tag-dallas-cowboys","13":"tag-dallascowboys","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-george-pickens","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115036792394317791","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}