{"id":506340,"date":"2026-01-10T14:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T14:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/506340\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T14:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T14:41:10","slug":"george-pickens-2-others-earn-2nd-team-ap-all-pro-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/506340\/","title":{"rendered":"George Pickens, 2 others earn 2nd-team AP All-Pro honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his first season with the Cowboys, wide receiver George Pickens wasn&#8217;t just trying to benefit from having a fresh start, but was eyeing a big season in his &#8220;contract year&#8221; knowing he&#8217;d be a free agent in March.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did Pickens produce his best season with career-highs in every major category, but now he can add All-Pro to his list of accomplishments, that also saw him make his first Pro Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>Pickens is one of three Cowboys to earn second-team All-Pro honors by The Associated Press (AP). The list was announced on Saturday and also included a pair of special teams standouts.<\/p>\n<p>Kicker <strong>Brandon Aubrey<\/strong> and return specialist <strong>KaVontae Turpin<\/strong> were also second-team All-Pros.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second year in a row the Cowboys landed a receiver, kicker and returner on the AP All-Pro teams. Last year, CeeDee Lamb and Turpin were first-teamers and Aubrey made the second-team.<\/p>\n<p>For Aubrey, he&#8217;s been selected on the All-Pro squad in each of his first three seasons in the NFL. In 2023, he was a first-team selection.<\/p>\n<p>Aubrey was 36-of-42 on field goals, with all six misses occurring from 50 yards or more. He did make a 64-yard field goal as time expired in regulation, sending a Week 2 game vs. the Giants to overtime. Aubrey then became the first kicker in NFL history to make field goals to end regulation and overtime, helping Dallas to a 40-37 win.<\/p>\n<p>Turpin set all sorts of Cowboys records this year, including most net yards with 2,351, surpassing DeMarco Murray (2,261 in 2014). Most of Turpin&#8217;s yardage came from kickoff returns, where he set the Cowboys&#8217; single-season records for attempts with 69 and yards with 1,814 \u2013 which both also led the NFL this year.<\/p>\n<p>Turpin was not among the five Cowboys selected to the upcoming Pro Bowl. Aubrey and Pickens were both on the list, along with Quinnen Williams, Dak Prescott and Tyler Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his first season with the Cowboys, wide receiver George Pickens wasn&#8217;t just trying to benefit from having&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":506341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,80594,1596,222001,35777,50464,1292,65211,102863,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-506340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brandon-aubrey","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-featured-offseason-2026","12":"tag-george-pickens","13":"tag-kavontae-turpin","14":"tag-news-all-news","15":"tag-news-nick-eatman","16":"tag-news-regular-season-2025","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-tx","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115871330040451176","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}