B
Dallas Cowboys
Grand theft in the 244th pick: the Cowboys steal Dixon and grade out a B.
by justinjsmithstudio ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 7 picks
· 2 steals
· 1 reaches
The value of the weekend has a name and a slot: Johnny Dixon, slot 244, roughly 53 picks past where he belonged.
They covered a lot of ground and still skipped quarterback, which is a strange place to end up. Every board in the league had Bills lower, and that gap is the story.
Solid rather than spectacular, and there is nothing wrong with that.
Pick-by-Pick
In the 24th pick they get a run-stuffing presence up front at fair value.
Keon Coleman at pick No. 56 is money in the bank, a wide receiver taken below his worth. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
Dominick Puni at pick 87 is right where the board had him, plain and simple. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Dillon Johnson at Round 5, Pick 38 nudges the ledger their way without any fuss. A need, and now a little less of one.
No drama and no debate, JD Bertrand went about where he belonged in No. 216. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
They went early on Keaton Bills in the 233rd overall pick, and the value did not follow. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
Johnny Dixon at the Round 7 slot is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.