B+
Dallas Cowboys
The Cowboys won the night they stopped McCord from sliding. Grade: B+.
by brad1000 ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 9 picks
· 6 steals
· 1 reaches
The value of the weekend has a name and a slot: Kyle McCord, slot 171, roughly 51 picks past where he belonged.
The cost of the Phillips reach is exactly the players who went right after him. The phones were where this weekend was really won.
They will regret leaving tight end for another day if the season turns on it. The Cordell Volson deal gives the class an established piece to lean on.
In short, they left a little better than they arrived, which is the whole idea.
Pick-by-Pick
In Round 1, Pick 17 they get a featured back at a price that makes it sweeter.
A market-rate wide receiver, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Tre Harris. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
They will replay Jalon Walker at No. 49 for years; that is how good the value is. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Jordan Phillips at slot 76 is a steep price for a hunch, hard to square with any board. It fills a real need, too.
Circle this one: Dylan Fairchild at the 132nd pick is a fall that decides a draft. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
You do not let a quarterback like Kyle McCord reach pick 171 and blink. They did not. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
They robbed the room for Nohl Williams here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
A slide stopped in the 239th overall pick, with Jabbar Muhammad worth more than the price. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
No edge and no loss on Cody Lindenberg in pick No. 247; it is a wash and a sensible one. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.