{"id":14966,"date":"2025-08-10T03:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T03:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=14966"},"modified":"2025-08-10T03:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T03:53:11","slug":"cowboys-ceedee-lamb-leveled-by-official-while-in-street-clothes-then-hit-with-15-yard-penalty-dallas-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=14966","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys\u2019 CeeDee Lamb leveled by official while in street clothes, then hit with 15-yard penalty | Dallas Cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">CeeDee Lamb took a big hit and committed a penalty in the Dallas Cowboys\u2019 preseason opener \u2013 even though the star receiver wasn\u2019t playing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A sprinting official ran straight into Lamb\u2019s back when the four-time Pro Bowl receiver wandered too close to the field during the second quarter of the Cowboys\u2019 game against the Los Angeles Rams at SoFi Stadium on Saturday night, resulting in a 15-yard penalty to Dallas for making contact with an official.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Dressed in street clothes, Lamb was watching Joe Milton\u2019s deep pass to Jonathan Mingo and signaling to his teammates while standing in the white paint on the edge of the sideline. The official was tracking the play while he ran, and he didn\u2019t see Lamb before he knocked down the wideout with a big hit to the back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Lamb got up with no apparent ill effects, laughing about the collision with his teammates. Dallas was still whistled for unsportsmanlike conduct, which took 15 yards off the Cowboys\u2019 51-yard gain for Los Angeles defensive back Shaun Jolly\u2019s pass interference on Mingo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Lamb, Dak Prescott, George Pickens and most of the Cowboys\u2019 key players aren\u2019t participating in the preseason opener.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CeeDee Lamb took a big hit and committed a penalty in the Dallas Cowboys\u2019 preseason opener \u2013 even though the star receiver wasn\u2019t playing. A sprinting official ran straight into Lamb\u2019s back when the four-time Pro Bowl receiver wandered too close to the field during the second quarter of the Cowboys\u2019 game against the Los<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[8566,8562,8565,5149,8567,70,8563,8564,5323,4749,1276],"class_list":{"0":"post-14966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-15yard","9":"tag-ceedee","10":"tag-clothes","11":"tag-cowboys","12":"tag-dallas","13":"tag-hit","14":"tag-lamb","15":"tag-leveled","16":"tag-official","17":"tag-penalty","18":"tag-street"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}