B-
Dallas Cowboys
The Cowboys won the night they stopped Neal from sliding. Grade: B-.
by arngar ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 9 picks
· 4 steals
· 4 reaches
The Cowboys spent the weekend waiting on one name, and it fell: Devin Neal, the No. 95 name on the board, in the 186th overall pick. They moved the roster forward and banked a B- for it.
They are betting Lacy proves the room right and everyone else wrong. A whole weekend of picks and cornerback is somehow still a want.
Good work on the whole, with cornerback the one box left unchecked.
Pick-by-Pick
In the 11th overall pick they get an anchor for the offensive line, though they paid up to get him. Exactly the need they had to hit.
They reached into another round for Tyleik Williams, and the board is nowhere close to agreeing. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
Value said wait; Alfred Collins in the Round 3 slot says they were not listening. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
They paid sticker price for Jaeden Roberts in the 149th pick, and that is fine. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
A linebacker of that caliber at pick No. 169 is the definition of value, full stop. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
They stopped a slide they were happy to see, landing Dane Key in pick 170. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
Kyren Lacy at Round 5, Pick 33 is an overdraft of the loud, memorable kind. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
Circle this one: Devin Neal at No. 186 is a fall that decides a draft. It patches a soft spot without any drama.
Ollie Gordon II at pick No. 209 is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.