Top 7 Cowboys players we wished we had played with on EA Sports College Football videogame

You likely have heard that EA Sports College Football 25 is making its triumphant return this summer after an 11-year hiatus. It's an exciting time to be a fan of the game many consider the best among the very best in the sports genre.

With it being removed from the market back in 2014, however, there are some remaining bittersweet feelings because there are a lot of players we didn't get to play as.

That's why - in celebration of the imminent release of the game - I decided I'd take a look at a handful of current Dallas Cowboys players we would've loved to have played as in the iconic videogame. And no, a made-up version of Jourdan Lewis that is taller won't be included on the list. 

WR CeeDee Lamb

Lamb was a production machine at Oklahoma, posting crazy numbers in each of his three seasons as a Sooner. As a freshman, he caught 46 passes for 807 yards and seven touchdowns. That was only the beginning as he took it up a notch the following couple of years:

2018: 65 catches, 1,158 yards, 11 touchdowns
2019: 62 catches, 1,327 yards, 14 touchdowns 

He was a play-maker as well, averaging 19 yards per catch throughout his three-year career. A lot of that happened after the catch and we just know it would've been fun as heck to play as Lamb in the game. 

RB Deuce Vaughn

Vaughn might not be a roster lock ahead of the 2024 NFL season but he was electric at Kansas State. In his last couple of seasons as a Wildcat, he averaged 1,904 yards from scrimmage per year. That's an outstanding number, specially for a 5-foot-6 player like him.

Vaughn was a consensus All-American in both his sophomore and junior seasons in college and became one of two players in Big 12 history to ever register 3,600 rushing yards and 1,250 receiving yards. 

CB Trevon Diggs

This is a little bit of a wildcard but Diggs is the ultimate Road to Glory type player. In his freshman year at Alabama, he logged snaps at safety, wide receiver, and return specialist. While he didn't play much, he got some stats on the sheet, registering five tackles and a forced fumble as well as 88 yards and a touchdown on offense.

One year later, Diggs was playing cornerback for Nick Saban and the rest is history.

EDGE Micah Parsons

When Parsons first started out at Penn State, he led the Nittany Lions with 82 tackles and that's with him only getting one official start in the stat sheet. Back then, Parsons played middle linebacker for James Franklin. Of course we would've loved to play as him, specially because that also means seeing the Penn State whiteout more often in the game.

Parsons later became a more versatile weapon and in 2019 he got five sacks and four forced fumbles en route to becoming the Big Ten Linebacker of the Year. 

LB DeMarvion Overshown

This is a little bit of personal preference for me as one of the best positions to play in the game is linebacker, specially if you're doing so with a rangy player who can cover sideline to sideline.

That's Overshown, who started his career at safety before transitioning to linebacker as a junior.  

QB Dak Prescott & RB Ezekiel Elliott 

Okay, I'm cheating a little bit with these two: They were both technically in the final edition of the game but both had yet to have their respective staple seasons in the sport. 

In 2014, one year after NCAA 14, Prescott led the Mississippi State Bulldogs to #1 in the rankings in an iconic season that saw him dominate SEC defenses like few mobile quarterbacks are able to. The Bulldogs website still describes his 2014 season as "the most prolific season by a quarterback in MSU history and one of the best in SEC annals," as his 41 touchdowns and 986 rushing yards back it up. 

As for Elliott, he helped lead the Ohio State Buckeyes to a National Championship with 1,878 rushing yards and 220 more receiving. He scored 18 touchdowns as he sparked life into an offense dealing with multiple QB injuries in the playoffs. Playing with that version of Zeke would've been unique.