DALLAS — Cooper Beebe is about to make his football dreams a reality.

“This is something I’ve dreamed about my entire life, and now that’s right around the corner. I’m just through the roof,” Beebe said.

The Cowboys rookie has been impressive in his first NFL training camp while being asked to play center. It’s a position he never played in college at Kansas State.

“This is my job. This position they want me to play,” Beebe said. “I’m gonna continue to get better at it and give it my all each day.”

Going all in with the position change earlier this summer included his mom taking snaps in the backyard while she was on lunch break. It’s a work ethic that will make it tough for the team to keep Beebe off the field in week 1.

“Dealing with the new position was a new challenge for me,” said Beebe, who was a third-round pick in the 2024 NFL Draft. “But I didn’t want to give any excuses, anything like that. I have stuff to prove, so I was still going to go out there and give it my all."

But proving himself is nothing new, according to his oldest brother Colton.

“He’s always had that obstacle to go through being the middle child and having some older brothers and older neighbors kind of beaten up on him,” said Colton, who played college football at Minnesota. “But he took his punches and gave ‘em back.”

A typical rite of passage for the second-youngest of four brothers. Especially when you grow up in a football family.

And once Cooper started making a name for himself in high school and college, the entire family noticed he was different.

“After any game at K-State, he’d go to me and my dad and my brothers, ‘Man, was that guy just not as good as I thought he was?’,” Colton Beebe said. “My dad didn’t say this to him, but he was just like, yeah, I’m pretty sure he’s just that good.”

Cooper became the first Beebe to make it to the NFL last April. 

“That night of him getting drafted was just, you know, a surreal moment for us all,” Colton said. “Sometimes, I think about it and it’s not even real to me yet.”

Excitement that the same flesh and blood is achieving a shared dream. 

“Oh, they love it. I mean, they’re so proud of me,” Cooper Beebe said. “Just to see all the hard work that I put into it