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Best value of the weekend goes to the Cowboys for Sampson: D.

by CowboysAngel · 2025 NFL Draft · 13 picks · 4 steals · 4 reaches
Value B
Need B
Trades F
Future B

There was a run on nobody at that position, and the Cowboys started one anyway for Que Robinson, 91 picks ahead of schedule.

Sampson at that cost is the sort of edge that compounds over a roster. The dealing is the wound this class cannot quite close. A whole weekend of picks and quarterback is somehow still a want.

Job largely done: wide receiver settled and 7 of 8 of the wish list covered.

Bottom line, they will need several of these picks to beat their grades just to break even.

Pick-by-Pick

R1.3 · Pick 3 · Ashton Jeanty · RB · rank 2
In slot 3 they get a featured back. A clean fit for the roster.
R1.8 · Pick 8 · Tetairoa McMillan · WR · rank 6
In No. 8 they get a No. 1 receiver at fair value. Exactly the need they had to hit.
R1.13 · Pick 13 · Mason Graham · DT · rank 8
In pick No. 13 they get a wrecking ball inside at fair value. A real need, handled.
R2.17 · Pick 49 · Harold Fannin Jr. · TE · rank 22
Steal is underselling it; Harold Fannin Jr. at the 49th pick is a heist with the alarm still ringing. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
R3.6 · Pick 70 · Malaki Starks · S · rank 20
A safety of that caliber at slot 70 is the definition of value, full stop. A minor need, but a need all the same.
R3.13 · Pick 77 · Danny Stutsman · LB · rank 91
Danny Stutsman at the 77th pick is a conviction pick that outran the value. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
R4.12 · Pick 113 · Que Robinson · LB-EDGE · rank 204
Que Robinson in the Round 4 slot is a reach so steep the board needed a second look to believe it. Useful body for a position without much behind the starter.
R5.13 · Pick 151 · Dont'e Thornton Jr. · WR · rank 158
Dont'e Thornton Jr. at pick No. 151 is neither steal nor reach, just the going rate. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
R5.31 · Pick 169 · Dylan Sampson · RB · rank 53
They will replay Dylan Sampson at Round 5, Pick 31 for years; that is how good the value is. The roster fit checks out.
R5.32 · Pick 170 · Bryce Foster · C · rank 172
They paid sticker price for Bryce Foster in No. 170, and that is fine. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
R5.34 · Pick 172 · Andrew Mukuba · S · rank 80
Andrew Mukuba at the 172nd overall pick is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. Depth on depth, at a spot that was hardly crying out.
R6.13 · Pick 188 · Kyren Lacy · WR · rank 237
They reached a country mile for Kyren Lacy at pick 188, and the board is aghast. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
R6.34 · Pick 209 · Aydan White · CB · rank 249
Aydan White at the 209th overall pick is an overdraft of the loud, memorable kind. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
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