Dallas Cowboys: 5 reasons the Amari Cooper trade was a good move

3. Amari Cooper is a two-time Pro Bowler

The 24-year former first rounder is already a two-time Pro Bowler. That’s two more Pro Bowls than anyone else on the Cowboys wide receiver corps. That’s two more Pro Bowls than any rookie Dallas would have drafted in the first round of the 2019 NFL Draft.

Cooper is a known quantity. There is no mystery as to whether he can play at a high level. His first two seasons in the NFL proved that he can. And Cooper can be special.

His rookie season, Cooper racked up 72 receptions for 1,070 yards and six touchdowns. The following year, 83 catches for 1,153 yards and five scores. Cooper is only the ninth player in the history of the league to record back-to-back 1,000 receiving yard seasons in his first two years in the NFL.

In 2017, Cooper’s production dropped as he struggled with injuries all year and was playing under a new offensive coordinator (OC) in Todd Downing. His two Pro Bowl seasons were had under the previous OC, Bill Musgrave, who left Oakland to join the Denver Broncos in the same role. Cooper would record 48 receptions for 680 yards and a career-high seven touchdowns in 14 games.

This season, under his third offensive coordinator in three years, Cooper has been a boom-or-bust player. He’s recorded a total of 22 catches for 280 yards and one score in six games. But most of that production came from two contests where he posted a total of 18 receptions for 244 yards and that touchdown. The other four games he was all but invisible.

Still, the Cowboys will likely throw Cooper right into the fire after the bye week, making him their number one receiving option as soon as he walks through the door.