Dallas piled up 508 yards Sunday at Indianapolis, and CeeDee Lamb accounted for 195 of them. He caught 10 passes, scored once and kept the offense moving through a second half that nearly got away from the Cowboys in a 27-23 win over the Colts.
The Associated Press and the team's website both listed it as the second-highest receiving total of Lamb's career. He produced it with George Pickens inactive because of a hamstring injury, and with tight end Jake Ferguson leaving in the third quarter with a left knee injury.
Twenty-one seconds before the half
Lamb's biggest play capped a two-minute drive. With 38 seconds left in the second quarter he caught a 22-yarder from Dak Prescott near midfield. On the next snap Prescott went deep right to him again, and Lamb finished a 44-yard touchdown with 21 seconds left that sent Dallas to the locker room ahead 17-7.
He nearly added a second score late in the third. An 11-yard catch in the end zone was ruled a touchdown on the field, but replay reversed it because, as the AP described it, he did not get both feet down. Dallas settled for a 28-yard Brandon Aubrey field goal and a 20-10 lead.
The fumble, and the flags
Early in the fourth, Lamb hauled in a 48-yard pass and was initially ruled down at the Indianapolis 13. The Colts challenged, the ruling was reversed to a fumble, and Indianapolis recovered at its 9. DallasCowboys.com also counted two offensive pass interference calls and a false start against him.
"I think I had, like, three penalties alone in the second half, and a fumble," Lamb told the club's website. "The numbers look crazy, but it could have been more."
