BIOGRAPHY
Brandin Cooks was born on September 25th, 1993 in Stockton, California. He is a wide receiver in the National Football League.
He attended Lincoln High School in Stockton, California, where he played high school football for the Trojans. In addition to football, Cooks played basketball and ran track in high school. In football Cooks was a two-time Section Offensive Player of the Year, All-Area selection, and team Most Valuable Player. As a senior, Cooks registered 66 receptions for 1,125 yards and 11 touchdowns and finished his senior campaign with 1,525 all-purpose yards. He originally committed to play college football at UCLA but changed to Oregon State University.
Cooks attended Oregon State where he started 29 of the 38 career games played in as a two-year starter for the Beavers. Cooks posted 226 receptions for 3,272 yards with 24 touchdowns, added 61 carries for 340 yards. He also returned 12 punts for 72 yards and returned eight kicks s for 179 yards for a career total of 3,863 all-purpose yards. In 2013 he was named First-Team All Pac-12, named a Consensus All-American, and was a Biletnikoff Award winner.
Brandin Cooks was selected in the first round by the New Orleans Saints with the 20th overall pick in the 2014 NFL Draft. Cooks is a sixth-year pro has played in 74 regular-season games with 62 starts. He has totaled 360 receptions for 5,147 yards and 32 receiving touchdowns and is one of only four players to record at least three seasons of 1,000-plus receiving yards and seven touchdowns before his 25th birthday, (Randy Moss, John Jefferson and Odell Beckham Jr.). Cooks joins only Steelers WR Antonio Brown as only wide receivers with at least 1,000 receiving yards and seven touchdowns in each season from 2015-17. He became the first player in NFL history to record three consecutive 1,000-plus yard seasons on three different teams and started back-to-back Super Bowls.
Cooks was selected by New Orleans as a first-round draft choice traded to New England on March, 10th 2017, and traded to the Rams April 5th, 2018.
In 2018, Cooks became the first player in NFL history with 1,000 receiving yards in three consecutive seasons with three different teams. During the regular-season finale against the 49ers, he caught five passes for 62 yards and two touchdowns as the Rams won 48–32. On April 10, 2020, Cooks and a 2022 fourth-round draft pick were traded to the Houston Texans in exchange for the Texans second-round draft pick, which was later used on Van Jefferson) in the 2020 NFL Draft.
Cooks finished the regular season with 80 receptions for a career-high 1,204 receiving yards and five receiving touchdowns. He also rushed 10 times for 68 yards and a rushing touchdown.
Cooks was traded to the Dallas Cowboys in 2023.
