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Dallas Cowboys
Grand theft in the Round 5 slot: the Cowboys steal Jones and grade out a D-.
by rbowlbs ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 11 picks
· 6 steals
· 1 reaches
You can lose a draft before you make a pick. The Cowboys did it at the trade table, overpaying to chase players the board did not price nearly as high. A weekend that fought the value and lost, hence the D-.
If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through quarterback. If Jackson pans out, nobody remembers the price. If not, this is the pick they hear about.
The Jones value carries more weight than any single miss elsewhere. They are betting the present roster is worth a lighter draft next spring.
A rough weekend that leaves the roster with more questions than answers.
Pick-by-Pick
In No. 9 they get a problem off the edge at fair value. More want than need.
In pick No. 17 they get protection for the quarterback. The biggest hole, addressed.
Keon Coleman in slot 56 is a gift, value that borders on unfair. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Jeremiah Trotter Jr. at the 62nd pick nudges the ledger their way without any fuss. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
A reach for McKinnley Jackson in pick 109; a little patience would have been rewarded. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
MarShawn Lloyd at Round 4, Pick 21 is the sort of value that quietly wins a weekend. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
They read the board right and Josh Newton was the payoff at No. 134. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Jarrian Jones in the 173rd pick should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
No drama and no debate, Tayvion Robinson went about where he belonged in the Round 7 slot. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
The board had Trevin Wallace higher than Round 7, Pick 24, and the linebacker fell to them anyway. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
KT Leveston at slot 250 is money in the bank, a offensive lineman taken below his worth. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.