{"id":94600,"date":"2025-06-01T01:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T01:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/94600\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T01:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T01:36:10","slug":"former-commanders-star-gives-shocking-take-on-nfc-east-wideouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/94600\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Commanders Star Gives Shocking Take on NFC East Wideouts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Commanders Star Gives Shocking Take on NFC East Wideouts<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When the Washington Commanders traded for All-Pro wide receiver Deebo Samuel, the team hoped they finally had a receiving group that could compete pound for pound with the Philadelphia Eagles and their elite duo of AJ Brown and DeVonta Smith.<\/p>\n

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Not everyone is as high on the Samuel acquisition as the Commanders are, however.<\/p>\n

On the latest episode of the Up and Adams podcast, former Commanders and Eagles receiver DeSean Jackson spoke out in his belief that while the Commanders did bolster their receiving room, they didn’t supplant another team in their decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, Deebo – I think he\u2019s a good (addition) over there. Jayden Daniels had a heck of a year as well too. Dak (Prescott) \u2026 you know Dak, he\u2019s a regular-season hero. I just don\u2019t know how it\u2019s going to transition into the playoffs,\u201d Jackson said. \u201cBut as far as regular season, I think the Cowboys will have better production from CeeDee (Lamb) and George Pickens if we\u2019re just talking about receivers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jackson’s comments about the Cowboys receiving room might be shocking to some. Dallas added George Pickens to the room in an offseason trade with the Steelers. Pickens is set to join a unit with an All-Pro in Lamb.<\/p>\n

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One argument: Is Samuel is a better player than Pickens at this time in their careers?<\/p>\n

The other, and we can settle this: As good as Terry McLaurin is, he isn’t better than Lamb.<\/p>\n

And that’s the demarcation point that the NFC East legend Jackson is speaking of here. In at least this one area, the Cowboys may have moved themselves up and over Washington.<\/p>\n

Related: Commanders Trade Paying Off As A Steal as Deebo Stars at OTAs<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Commanders Rookie Putting On Show for Kingsbury at OTAs<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on May 31, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Commanders Star Gives Shocking Take on NFC East Wideouts originally appeared on Athlon Sports. When the Washington…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2069],"tags":[5831,427,1705,21172,5640,7,467,734,6,109,24946,7186,855,111,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-94600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-commanders","8":"tag-aj-brown","9":"tag-commanders","10":"tag-deebo-samuel","11":"tag-desean-jackson","12":"tag-devonta-smith","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-george-pickens","15":"tag-jayden-daniels","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","18":"tag-receiving-room","19":"tag-terry-mclaurin","20":"tag-washington","21":"tag-washington-commanders","22":"tag-washingtoncommanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94600","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=94600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}