Which Cowboys earned 2025 All-Pro according to ESPN?

With the 2025 regular season coming to its end over the next 72 hours, there's not much that's going to happen that will end up swinging most of the individual awards. The Pro Bowl bids for the annual all-star game are already decided, with only opting out or reaching the Super Bowl amending that list of participants. As for the season-end honors, 16 of 17 games have been played, and with more than half the playoff field choosing to rest their starters to some degree, the top players won't be making a full accounting of themselves on a broad scale.

To that measure, ESPN's resident super brain, Bill Barnwell has declared winners for his version of he 2025 All-Pro team. He chooses both first-team and second-team members, using advanced statistics as the foundation of his selections, rather than volume stats and vibes.

Three members of the Cowboys made his lists, based on their performances across the season. WR George Pickens, left guard Tyler Smith and kicker Brandon Aubrey were named in his exercise. Pickens was the only one who made first team, so he was the only one with an extended section on his inclusion, though he included Aubrey's season in his detailed explanation for not picking him.

Here's the criteria Barnwell used for making his decisions.

This is my own All-Pro team based on the tape I've watched and the numbers I've crunched this season, as opposed to a prediction of who will actually be on those teams when they're announced later in January. . .

One big difference for this team versus the Pro Bowl teams that were just announced is that I really care about player availability.  This is a roster designed to represent the most productive and impactful players of 2025 as opposed to the best guys on any individual snap.

WR George Pickens, First-Team All-Pro

Pickens [has been] the perfect fit for what the Cowboys needed as an outside receiver next to CeeDee Lamb for Dak Prescott. Pickens had consistently run higher-than-expected catch rates in Pittsburgh, but playing with subpar quarterbacks in run-first offenses, it was unclear whether all of that would translate to Dallas.

It did. Pickens' expected catch rate rose, but so did his actual catch rate. Among wide receivers with 300-plus routes run this season, Pickens ranks sixth in the league in catch rate over expectation, third in receiving yards over expectation (trailing only my two other first-team All-Pros) and first in yards after catch over expectation (199 YACOE), per NGS. Generating loads of YACOE as a downfield receiver isn't easy, and it's a testament to how good Pickens has been at both bringing in contested catches and creating once he has the ball in his hands.

Kicker Will Reichard, Vikings

Brandon Aubrey gets deserved plaudits as the league's best kicker on a weekly basis, but Reichard has actually been slightly better this season per advanced metrics. He has attempted eight fewer field goals than Aubrey, but Reichard has gone 30-for-32, whereas Aubrey is 35-for-40. Even with the slightly reduced volume, Reichard has made 6.7 more field goals than expected (per NGS), compared with 6.5 for Aubrey, as his average field goal make has been from a yard further out. Reichard has also been perfect on extra points. Vikings fans endured about a decade of frustrating kickers, but Reichard has broken that trend.

One other note, quarterback Dak Prescott didn't make the team, but there's a strong hint Barnwell saw him as in the next tier behind Drake Maye (first team) and Matthew Stafford (second team). Here's part of his writeup of Maye.

There are six receivers who have run 300 or more routes this season with a CROE at least 10% better than average. Two of them are the obvious first-team All-Pros in Puka Nacua and Jaxon Smith-Njigba. Jake Ferguson is fifth, and George Pickens is just outside of that top six, a testament to what Dak Prescott can do for you at quarterback. The other three guys in the top six are all Patriots. Kayshon Boutte (plus-23.5% CROE), Stefon Diggs (plus-15.8%) and Mack Hollins (plus-10.2%) are all running what would comfortably be the highest catch rates over expectation of their respective careers. Three receivers in the top six is a Maye stat.

This article originally appeared on Cowboys Wire: George Pickens named ESPN All-Pro for 2025, who else earned the honor?