Bryan Broaddus is still in Oxnard to cover Cowboys practices, and he gives us a recap of what he saw at during the workouts from Tuesday. He highlights wide receiver Jalen Cropper who's making a case to make the 2024 squad, if tight end John Stephens might end up as the backup to Jake Ferguson and more.
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00:00Really nice day for your guy, Cropper, by the way.
00:19Nice.
00:20I mean, he is...
00:21Okay, I'm trying to figure out here, how many receivers are we going to keep?
00:24And this kid keeps making plays.
00:27So we keep talking about Tolbert and Cooks, and I'm just going down the list, and Turpin,
00:33and then Flournoy started practicing again, and then Brooks, but we don't have any Seedy
00:39Lamb here.
00:40But Cropper is showing up on these daily things.
00:45He's got a little something the others don't when it comes to the burst, the speed.
00:49He knows how to get open.
00:50He's smooth.
00:51I mean, he does not...
00:52His ability to accelerate and get in and out of his cuts on a dime.
00:56The kid was impressive the first couple days of camp, and then he kind of slowed down a
00:59little bit.
01:00So today, it looked like an impressive day from some of the clips that came out, Brian.
01:04It was.
01:05And when they put him on the move, he's especially good, because he could separate.
01:10He has a feel, as you mentioned there, Wooley, that when he runs routes, it's like he's going
01:16full speed.
01:18It's not like any hesitation or slowing up or, oh, I'm worried about running into somebody.
01:24He knows where he wants to go, and he gets there.
01:27And I'll tell you what, he got some work with the ones today.
01:31So he's been like a ones or a twos and that kind of thing.
01:36But I've been kind of impressed.
01:38I mean, they throw the ball to him on the out.
01:40It's a first down.
01:41They throw him the ball down the field.
01:42It's a catch in the middle of the field.
01:43They throw him the ball down to the end zone.
01:46He's separated from Jordan Lewis.
01:49By the way, Jordan Lewis did have a good day today.
01:51I know I was kind of talking about him getting caught up for a defensive holding.
01:56But this Cropper kid, they're going to have to figure out, and we'll see more practices,
02:01preseason, how many numbers they keep at wide receiver.
02:06Because this kid right here is making them, it might be one of those things like, you
02:09know, we talked to Steven Jones, and I'm going to try and grab him tonight too.
02:13Maybe not about Cropper.
02:14We've got the media party tonight.
02:16I'm going to see if Clarence Hill lets me ask a question, I might be able to get some
02:21information.
02:22Yeah, I'm going to lose that battle tonight.
02:25Just get ready.
02:26That battle's going to be lost.
02:27You boozing tonight?
02:28No, I can't.
02:30I promised.