WATCH: Dez Bryant makes incredible touchdown catch in training session
Just because Dez Bryant hasn’t played football since 2020 doesn’t mean that the former All-Pro NFL wide receiver isn’t training for a comeback. Judging by a recent viral catch Bryant made during a training session, he could be ready for another run in the league by the time the season rolls around in September.
Here is an even more incredible angle of Bryant’s one-handed snag.
Bryant’s last stint in the league was with the Baltimore Ravens in 2020 where he was action in six games and caught six passes for 47 yards and two touchdowns in a comeback season after leaving the Cowboys in 2017.
He recorded three consecutive 1,000-plus yard receiving seasons between 2012 and 2014 before a broken foot cut his production by more than half the following season. Between 2016-2017, Bryant caught 119 passes for 1,634 yards and 14 touchdowns before being released before the 2018 season and not see himself back on a field for three more seasons.
During the middle of his three-season, career-defining run with the Cowboys, Bryant noted multiple times how much he strived to be the best receiver in the league during a time that was rich with receiving talent throughout the NFL.
“I believe I can do whatever he can do,” Bryant said in 2013, according to ESPN, when talking about future Hall of Famer Calvin Johnson, who had just nearly recorded 2,000 receiving yards the previous season. “I think it’s just a pride thing. When it comes to football, just being on the field, it’s a mindset and having a mentality. I honestly believe when I’m there, I’ll be feeling like there’s nothing I can’t do. Whatever the coaches ask me to do, I’m going to do it.”
It seems that mentality has continued over and he helping lead him back to the field and back to the league where he was once one of it’s top wide receivers.
At age 33, Bryant’s window for a NFL comeback is dwindling by the season, and if this type of catch can’t coax a coach to bring the veteran receiver into their organization, potentially nothing will. Though, with three Pro Bowls under his belt, being a formerfirst round pick and five-star recruit, then go through all the drama he has over the last six years and still be willing to put in the time for a comeback is something to be said whether he receives a third chance or not.