QB Dak Prescott
(2025 QB Rank – No. 5, 22.2 FPts/G)
Dak Prescott may have put the "cooked" narrative to rest this
past year. After missing half the season in 2024, Prescott bounced
back and played all 17 games, passing for 4,552 yards and hitting
30 touchdowns with only 10 interceptions. The rushing floor from
the past is gone, but his passing volume carries the load since
the Cowboys had to pass constantly given their 511 points conceded
as a team -- sixth-most in NFL history. While not a great unit,
the core of the Dallas offensive line stays intact heading into
2026.
Now 33 years old, Prescott is a veteran and a pure pocket passer,
but he has among the best skill position supporting casts in the
league. CeeDee Lamb, George Pickens, and Jake Ferguson all return
this season, while Ryan Flournoy also returns alongside speedster
KaVontae Turpin and field stretching veteran Marques Valdes-Scantling
who joined the team during the offseason. Prescott lacks the rushing
upside of the elite QBs, but his passing floor makes him a very
safe bet to be a steady low-end QB1 who also still has the potential
to break into being a top 5 QB again through a highly efficient
passing touchdown season, similar to how he and Matthew Stafford
performed in 2025. Treat Dak as a safe, low-end QB1 in all formats.
RB Javonte Williams
(2025 RB Rank – No. 12, 15.4 FPts/G)
Javonte Williams capitalized big time on his one-year deal with
Dallas. He racked up a career-high 1,201 rushing yards and 11
touchdowns on 252 carries over 16 games, showing his pre-injury
burst is finally back. The Cowboys locked him up with a three-year,
$24 million contract in February and the team did not spend other
significant assets on the position during the offseason, solidifying
Williams as the clear lead back in a high-scoring offense for
2026.
Williams' passing game involvement dropped to just 35 receptions
last year after averaging about 50 receptions over his previous
two seasons in Denver, but he owns the goal-line work. The depth
chart behind him is thin, with Jaydon Blue and Malik Davis merely
occupying change-of-pace roles. Williams will get the high-value
touches, making him a rock-solid RB2 in the third or fourth round
with low-end RB1 upside if the touchdowns continue to stack up
like they did in 2026.
WR CeeDee Lamb
(2025 WR Rank – No. 21, 15.5 FPts/G)
Injuries meant that CeeDee Lamb had a down year by his standards
in 2025, but he still finished with 75 catches for 1,077 yards
and three scores in 14 games. Soft-tissue issues are a concern
heading into this season and George Pickens' explosion in the
Dallas offense has many questioning which of these stud pass-catchers
is the true “WR1” for Dak Prescott, but Lamb's efficiency remains
elite enough to make him a reliable fantasy WR1. He averaged 2.27
yards per route run in 2025 and should continue to command a heavy
share of the intermediate targets given the make-up of the receiver
room around him. There will be competition for the deep targets
now that the Cowboys have added Pickens and Valdes-Scantling over
the past two offseasons, but when it's third down and the Cowboys
need to move the sticks, Prescott is going to continue to look
to the receiver who's gone for over 1,000 yards in five straight
seasons.
Additionally, fantasy managers should expect a big jump back
to the norm from Lamb in the touchdown department this year. He
scored just three times in all of 2025, but his skill set remains
elite so there shouldn't be any concerns about his ability to
get into the end zone. The Dallas offense throws enough to sustain
two high-end receivers, and Lamb remains the focal point from
the slot. Don't overthink the target split. He is a locked-in,
first-round WR1.
WR George
Pickens
(2025 WR Rank – No. 5, 17.1 FPts/G)
Sometimes all a player needs is a change of scenery. That's what
happened with George Pickens in 2025 when he joined the Cowboys
and immediately exploded into fantasy stardom. Paired for the
first time in his career with an elite passer, Pickens caught
93 passes for 1,429 yards and nine touchdowns across 17 games.
He is a huge mismatch on the perimeter against most teams and
showed that he can make players miss after the catch as well,
as he picked up 479 yards after the catch last season -- 12th-most
in the NFL.
His draft price is steep now, but the ceiling matches the cost.
Defenses have often chosen to bracket Lamb inside, leaving Pickens
in single coverage outside. That's a recipe for big plays and
touchdown celebrations. Look at Pickens as a high-end WR2 with
week-winning upside who can realistically clear top-5 numbers
again, especially if Lamb continues to struggle with the nagging
injuries that bothered him in 2025.
WR Ryan Flournoy
(2025 WR Rank – No. 56, 8.8 FPts/G)
He's not going to be a cornerstone of any drafts, but Ryan Flournoy
is a deep-sleeper target who has big game potential. He was highly
efficient in 2025, turning limited looks into 40 catches, 475
yards, and four touchdowns. His best game came in Week 14 against
Detroit, where he caught 9 passes for 115 yards and a score when
injuries opened up the rotation. He also turned in another six-catch,
114-yard performance against the Jets in Week 5. It's not often
that a team produces two weekly borderline WR1s, a top-five TE,
and another player who still manages to turn in multiple 100-yard
games in the same season. But that's the kind of depth that we're
talking about in this high-octane Dallas passing game.
Flournoy enters 2026 as the definitive WR3 in Dallas. He won't
see consistent weekly volume behind Lamb and Pickens, but he is
one of the few legitimate “handcuff” insurance policy WRs in the
league. If either starter goes down, Flournoy steps into a high-volume
role immediately. Stash him late if you have deep rosters, or
keep him at the top of your waiver watchlist. If Lamb starts struggling
with soft tissue injuries again then it's time to break the “in
case of emergency” glass and be the first to invest in Flournoy.
TE Jake Ferguson
(2025 TE Rank – No. 4, 11.2 FPts/G)
Cowboys TE Jake Ferguson locked himself in as Prescott's primary
safety valve last year, catching 82 passes and a career-high eight
touchdowns. His yards per catch fell to 7.3 after averaging above
10 yards per reception over the course of his first three NFL
seasons, but the catch efficiency was elite. It took just 102
targets for Ferguson to make an impressive 82 receptions -- the
highest catch rate of any TE who saw at least 70 targets in 2025.
While we've seen that he has the skill set to be a field-stretching
tight end, the Cowboys' investments in big play-making wide receivers
likely means that Ferguson's value is tied in large part to short-yardage
PPR volume and red-zone targets.
Ferguson's yardage ceiling is capped barring a disaster where
both Lamb and Pickens go down, but Ferguson absolutely benefits
from defenses dropping back to stop the wideouts. He's shown shades
of Jason Witten with his ability to sit right in the soft spots
of zone coverage. Draft him as a reliable, mid-tier TE1 with a
high weekly floor, but understand that we could see some touchdown
regression this season.
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