The Dallas Cowboys are excited to get a healthy Dak Prescott back for the 2025 season. After suffering a season ending injury just eight games into the 2024 season, the 31-year-old quarterback has been training non-stop to get back on the field.
However, he could be doing so with a surprise weapon that fans don’t know too much about.
“This Could Be Big” Cowboys Add 4.5 40-Yard-Dash Weapon For Dak Prescott (Breaking)
Too often, we look for smoke where there is none when a player doesn’t get selected in the NFL draft. There are times when picks are subjective to the person or team making them. However, Dallas believes there is plenty of smoke around one UDFA they signed:
In the case of Dallas Cowboys undrafted free agent wide receiver Traeshon Holden, the writing was on the wall ahead of the 2025 NFL draft and going 7 rounds without hearing a team call his name could be the motivating factor that propels his career forward.
“I was hurt,” Holden told DallasCowboys.com’s Tommy Yarish. “That 24-hour rule, I was hurting. But now, I’m here, and I’m ready to make it happen. I’ll do what I can to show everybody that I belong … (I want) to prove everybody wrong. Everybody. I’m coming for heads. That’s it.”
Holden spent the first 3 seasons of his college career playing at Alabama, where he won a College Football Playoff national championship a a freshman in 2020 and played in the CFP National Championship Game in 2022, where the Crimson Tide lost to Georgia.
He transferred to Oregon for his final 2 seasons, where he had a career high 462 receiving yards and 3 touchdowns in just 8 games in 2024.
Holden’s time at Alabama and Oregon had something in common — he scored a lot of touchdowns on not a lot of touches.
“Touchdown-maker who averaged a TD grab for every 7.1 catches,” NFL draft analyst Lance Zierlein wrote about Holden in his pre-draft evaluation. ” … The tape doesn’t stand out, but his physicality and willingness as a run blocker is a differentiator that could help his cause.”
There aren’t many better compliments you can get as a wide receiver than being called a great run blocker and someone who scores a lot of touchdowns in an efficient way. Holden also has ideal wide receiver size at 6-foot-2 and 205 pounds.
Here is a look at Holden’s college numbers:
| Season | Season | Games | Receiving | Rushing | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | GS | Rec | Yds | Avg | TD | Att | Yds | Avg | TD | ||
| 2020 | Alabama | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| 2021 | Alabama | 15 | 0 | 21 | 239 | 11.4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| 2022 | Alabama | 10 | 5 | 25 | 331 | 13.2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
| 2023 | Oregon | 14 | 2 | 37 | 452 | 12.2 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 6.0 | 1 |
| 2024 | Oregon | 8 | 6 | 28 | 462 | 16.5 | 3 | 2 | 22 | 11.0 | 0 |
| Career[7] | 52 | 13 | 111 | 1,484 | 13.4 | 16 | 4 | 34 | 8.5 | 1 | |
