{"id":859235,"date":"2026-04-07T15:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/859235\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:58:17","slug":"cowboys-schedule-visit-with-explosive-wr-prospect-ahead-of-2026-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/859235\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys Schedule Visit With Explosive WR Prospect Ahead of 2026 NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wide receiver isn’t a big need for the Dallas Cowboys ahead of the 2026 NFL Draft, but it’s still a position they could address<\/a> over the course of the three-day event later this month.<\/p>\n

Knowing that, it comes as no surprise the Cowboys are taking a closer look at wide receivers<\/a>, and the team will do so again with Louisville wideout Chris Bell.<\/p>\n

According to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport<\/a>, Bell and the Cowboys are slated to meet after he visits with the New York Jets on Tuesday and the Indianapolis Colts later this week.<\/p>\n

“Louisville WR Chris Bell is at the Jets on a Top 30 visit today, then he has Colts and Combine Rechecks later in the week,” Rapoport said. “Bell had surgery for a torn ACL in December, and countless teams have had him in to check on his progress. He has Raiders and Cowboys after Indy.”<\/p>\n

The part that immediately jumps off the page is Bell having suffered a torn ACL<\/a>, which no doubt hurts his stock. If not for that, he likely would have garnered first-round consideration. That also means Bell could be a massive steal.<\/p>\n

Chris Bell scouting report\"Louisville<\/p>\n

Louisville Cardinals wide receiver Chris Bell. | Jerome Miron-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Putting the torn ACL aside for now, Bell is an intriguing prospect for multiple reasons.<\/p>\n

He’s more of an underneath receiver but sports a big frame at 6-foot-2 and 222 pounds, which in and of itself makes him hard to bring down. But Bell also has breakaway speed to turn short-to-intermediate passes into explosive plays.<\/p>\n

Of course, the hope is that Bell’s electric qualities with the ball in his hands won’t be impacted by his torn ACL<\/a>. The good news is players are recovering better than ever from that injury.<\/p>\n

Most current draft projections have Bell going somewhere in the middle of the second round.<\/p>\n

Why Bell makes sense for Cowboys\"Louisville<\/p>\n

Louisville Cardinals wide receiver Chris Bell and Miami Hurricanes defensive back Jr. Romanas Frederique. | Sam Navarro-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Dallas might have the best one-two punch at wide receiver in the NFL with George Pickens and CeeDee Lamb, but there are nothing but question marks behind those two. We’d even consider Pickens a question mark<\/a> until he signs a long-term deal.<\/p>\n

Ryan Flournoy is in line to be Dallas’ WR3 this season, and while he did show promise in 2025<\/a>, he is far from cemented. Behind Flournoy are guys like KaVontae Turpin, Jonathan Mingo and Parris Campbell battling it out for the scraps.<\/p>\n

The bad news for the Cowboys is they don’t have a pick in the vicinity of where Bell is projected to go, as Dallas only has a single Day 2 pick and it comes late in the third round. However, it’s very possible the Cowboys will make a trade in the first round that gets them the second-round pick they don’t currently have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wide receiver isn’t a big need for the Dallas Cowboys ahead of the 2026 NFL Draft, but it’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2066],"tags":[230,229,257,2461,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-859235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-cowboys","8":"tag-cowboys","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-cowboys","11":"tag-dallascowboys","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116364256433416831","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859235","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=859235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}