Cowboys 'Surreal' Trades: Brandin Cooks & Stephon Gilmore BFFs in Dallas

If Brandin Cooks was going to hand-pick a new teammate in a new city? He’d pick Stephon Gilmore - and now two trades have the best pals reunited with the Cowboys.

FRISCO - The Dallas Cowboys used affordable trades this spring to acquire Brandin Cooks to help the offense and Stephon Gilmore to help the defense.

Coincidentally, Cooks and Gilmore happened to have developed a deep friendship from their days together with the New England Patriots ...

Or maybe it’s not “coincidence” at all.

“He got traded first,” said Cooks. “So I’m like, “How do we make things happen?” and next thing you know, we’re back on the same team together, so I’m excited.”

Cooks shared his views via a recent appearance on The Adam Schefter Podcast and spoke on his history with Gilmore.

Said Cooks:  No exaggeration, we probably talk every single day for the past three or four years. Every week at least for sure. Somebody I’ve got a lot of respect for, that I run things by.”

OK, maybe a little bit of exaggeration. 

But the point is, if Cooks, who was granted his wish to exit the Houston Texans (not unlike what the Colts did for Gilmore), was going to hand-pick a new teammate in a new city?

He’d pick Dallas … and he’d pick “Gilly.”

“It was one of those things that were so surreal,” Cooks said. “We knew it was a possibility, but then the next thing you know, we both get traded. … And we were just looking at each other like, “Man this is really real.”

“Like, we were both in a situation that we obviously would have hoped to be different but now we’re both back to an incredible franchise.”

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