Brandin Tawan Cooks was born on September 25,1993 and is an American football wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League.
38 Facts About Brandin Cooks
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Brandin Cooks played college football at Oregon State, where he received consensus All-American honors, and was selected by the New Orleans Saints in the first round of the 2014 NFL Draft.
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Brandin Cooks was born in Stockton, California to Worth Brandin Cooks Sr.
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Brandin Cooks attended Lincoln High School in Stockton, where he played high school football for the Trojans.
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Brandin Cooks originally committed to play college football at the UCLA but changed to Oregon State University.
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Brandin Cooks played at Oregon State from 2011 to 2013 under head coach Mike Riley.
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Brandin Cooks played in all 12 games with three starts and recorded 31 receptions for 391 yards and three touchdowns.
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Brandin Cooks's 232 receiving yards were the second-most in a game in school history, behind Mike Hass's 293 against Boise State in 2004.
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Brandin Cooks finished the 2013 season with 128 receptions for 1,730 yards and 16 touchdowns.
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Brandin Cooks was held to under 100 yards only four times and exceeded 200 yards in a game twice.
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Brandin Cooks was the second Oregon State player to win the Biletnikoff Award, the first being Mike Hass in 2005.
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Brandin Cooks finished his collegiate career among the best in school history by being second in receptions, third in receiving yards, and first in receiving touchdowns.
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On January 2,2014, Brandin Cooks announced that he would forgo his senior season and enter the 2014 NFL Draft.
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Brandin Cooks was selected by the New Orleans Saints as the 20th overall pick of the first round of the 2014 NFL Draft; the Saints traded up from the 27th spot, giving their first and third-round picks to the Arizona Cardinals in return for Arizona's first-round pick, in order to get Brandin Cooks.
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Brandin Cooks was the highest drafted player out of Oregon State since Ken Carpenter went 13th overall in the first round of the 1950 NFL Draft.
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Brandin Cooks began the 2015 season as the number-one wide receiver for the Saints.
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In Weeks 15 and 16 combined, Brandin Cooks had 15 catches for 247 yards and two touchdowns against the Detroit Lions and Jacksonville Jaguars.
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Brandin Cooks finished his second professional season with 84 catches for 1,138 yards and nine touchdowns in 16 games and 12 starts, leading the Saints in all of those categories.
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Brandin Cooks caught a 98-yard touchdown pass in the third quarter to set the Saints' franchise record for the longest play from scrimmage.
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Brandin Cooks finished the 2016 season catching 78 receptions for a then career-high in receiving yards with 1,173 and eight touchdowns in 16 games and 12 starts.
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Brandin Cooks finished seventh in the NFL in receiving yards.
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Brandin Cooks finished his only season with the Patriots with 65 receptions for 1,082 yards and seven touchdowns in 16 games and 15 starts.
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Brandin Cooks finished second on the team to Gronkowski in receptions, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns on the season.
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On July 17,2018, Brandin Cooks signed a five-year, $81 million extension with the Rams with $50.5 million guaranteed.
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In one of the highest-scoring back-and-forth games in NFL history, Brandin Cooks helped convert a key first down on a 22-yard reception on the drive that put the Rams up for good.
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Brandin Cooks finished the regular season with 80 receptions for a career-high 1,204 yards and five touchdowns in 16 games and starts.
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Brandin Cooks rushed 10 times for 68 yards and a rushing touchdown.
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Brandin Cooks had three chances at scoring pivotal receiving touchdowns in the game.
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The last occurred on the next play when Goff threw a pressured pass to Brandin Cooks that ended up being under thrown and picked off by Stephon Gilmore.
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Brandin Cooks returned in Week 12 against the Baltimore Ravens.
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Brandin Cooks finished the 2019 season with 42 receptions for 583 yards and two touchdowns in 14 games and starts, all his lowest totals since his rookie season in 2014.
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Brandin Cooks joined Brandon Marshall as the only players in NFL history to record a 1,000-yard receiving season with four different teams.
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Brandin Cooks entered the season as a starting wide receiver for the Texans.
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Brandin Cooks finished the season as the team's leading receiver in all major statistical categories, recording a career-high 90 catches with 1,037 yards and six touchdowns.
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Brandin Cooks became the third player in franchise history to have consecutive 1,000-yard receiving seasons.
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Brandin Cooks led the team in receptions and receiving yards.
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Brandin Cooks followed big plays in the 2016 season with a bow-and-arrow motion, referencing a Bible verse in which a boy named Ishmael used his archery skills to survive in the desert after he nearly died there without water.
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In 2020, Brandin Cooks donated $50,000 to his hometown of Stockton, California.