Dez Bryant predicts NFC East team will win Super Bowl this year, takes shot at Giants

The NFC East whitethorn person 1 of the toughest schedules successful the NFL this season, but that isn’t deterring Dez Bryant from predicting which part volition beryllium taking location the Vince Lombardi Trophy successful 2026. 

Bryant, the Dallas Cowboys legend, is assured successful predicting that a squad from the NFC East volition erstwhile again hoist the trophy erstwhile Super Bowl LX comes to a finish. 

"That’s the part to watch. I deliberation the Super Bowl is coming retired of the East this year," Bryant told Fox News Digital astatine Fanatics Fest. 

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Former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant walks connected the tract earlier the crippled betwixt the New York Giants and the Dallas Cowboys astatine MetLife Stadium connected September 26, 2022, successful East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Elsa/Getty Images)

Earlier this year, the Philadelphia Eagles took location the trophy, defeating the Kansas City Chiefs, 40-22, successful a ascendant show successful New Orleans. 

The Eagles are expected to beryllium the squad to bushed erstwhile again retired of the NFC, fto unsocial the East division, arsenic they instrumentality each of their cardinal violative players, including Saquon Barkley, who received an hold connected apical of the woody helium signed with Philadelphia this past offseason. 

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But Bryant’s loyalties haven’t wavered from his erstwhile Dallas squad, a radical nether caller enactment successful caput manager Brian Schottenheimer. 

After dealing for George Pickens with the Pittsburgh Steelers, Bryant thinks the Cowboys’ discourtesy tin detonate this year. 

"It opens up a lot," Bryant said. "I don’t cognize however you don’t beryllium palmy with George Pickens and CeeDee Lamb connected the tract astatine the aforesaid time. It’s going to origin a batch of trouble. Schotty got to get successful determination and fig retired the champion strategy to people points. If we people points, we’re good."

Bryant intends connected heading down to Texas for the team’s grooming campy to spot however Schottenheimer is getting the radical moving earlier Week 1. He believes the longtime NFL coach, who is successful his archetypal twelvemonth arsenic a caput coach, is already establishing the close culture. 

Nov. 30, 2023; Arlington, Texas: Dallas Cowboys wide receiver CeeDee Lamb (88) celebrates during the 2nd fractional against the Seattle Seahawks astatine AT&T Stadium. (Tim Heitman-USA Today Sports)

"I emotion everything he’s been doing arsenic of late," Bryant said. "You gotta springiness him his credit. He’s got the vigor flowing successful the building, the guys are blessed to beryllium there, and the guys would tally done a partition for him. So, I’m looking guardant to seeing what’s going on."

But determination are besides the Washington Commanders, 1 of the astir astonishing teams successful 2025 aft rookie Jayden Daniels led the squad to its archetypal NFC Championship Game successful decades. They mislaid to the Eagles, but there’s a batch to emotion astir Washington, moving guardant with Daniels astatine the helm. 

Now, the last squad successful the part is 1 of Bryant’s aged rivals. And to this day, helium doesn’t caput sending shots their way. 

"The NFC East is brainsick close now. Look astatine the Commanders, the Eagles, [the Cowboys] now. Giants, they’re inactive astatine the bottom, I’m sorry," helium said. "But [first-round prime Jaxson] Dart has a accidental to beryllium special."

Dez Bryant astatine JAY-Z's 40/40 Club during Fanatics Fest NYC held astatine the Javits Center connected June 20, 2025, successful New York, New York. (Stephanie Augello/Variety via Getty Images)

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With the NFC East facing the NFC North and AFC West divisions during the regular season, the Giants, with Russell Wilson expected to pb the mode astatine quarterback, whitethorn person a pugnacious clip getting backmost into the playoffs. 

But Bryant believes the different 3 teams from the part could beryllium primed to marque a run. Of course, he’s hoping it volition beryllium the Cowboys getting backmost into the Super Bowl for the archetypal clip since the aboriginal 1990s, but it volition beryllium amusive to ticker however this part shakes retired with the remainder of the competition. 

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