B
Dallas Cowboys
The Cowboys won the night they stopped Ford from sliding. Grade: B.
by cowboys22220 ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 11 picks
· 7 steals
· 1 reaches
Every so often the board makes a mistake, and the Cowboys were there to profit. Jaylan Ford, the No. 205 name on the board, should have been long gone before No. 233.
If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through tight end. The cost of the Wright reach is exactly the players who went right after him. A modest surplus at the table, banked quietly.
Good work on the whole, with tight end the one box left unchecked.
Pick-by-Pick
In the 31st pick they get an anchor for the offensive line. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
Fair-plus on Edgerrin Cooper, a quiet win that adds up over a draft. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
A reach for Jaylen Wright in pick No. 63; a little patience would have been rewarded. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
Max Melton in Round 3, Pick 33 should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
Javon Baker at slot 117 is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Jordan Travis in No. 174 is exactly on the number, no argument either way. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
Dillon Johnson in pick 191 is a gift, value that borders on unfair. The roster fit checks out.
The board fumbled Johnny Dixon all the way to the 211th overall pick, and they scooped it up. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
A linebacker of that caliber at No. 216 is the definition of value, full stop. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
Jaylan Ford at slot 233 is the steal of the weekend, a first-round talent at a bargain-bin price. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
The board had Tylan Grable higher than pick No. 244, and the offensive lineman fell to them anyway. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
