B-
Dallas Cowboys
The Cowboys did the meat-and-potatoes work well: B-.
by TheCowboyFan ·
2026 NFL Draft
· 10 picks
· 0 steals
· 6 reaches
Call it belief, call it a gut call, but Marvin Jones Jr. at the 218th overall pick is 118 spots clear of consensus, and that is the headline. Solid and sensible more than spectacular: a B-.
The quarterback spot stays a question, and it was the one they most needed an answer at. On the needs board they went 5 of 8, with wide receiver the one that mattered most.
All told, a solid class that does its job everywhere but quarterback.
Pick-by-Pick
A clean, defensible pick in Round 1, Pick 12 with a little surplus value in Mansoor Delane. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
In No. 28 they get a downhill thumper at linebacker. Exactly the need they had to hit.
By-the-book stuff, Jacob Rodriguez at pick No. 69 squarely in line with his ranking. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
Mason Reiger at pick 110 is the kind of overdraft that needs everything to break right. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
Caleb Douglas in the 112th pick is a reach so steep the board needed a second look to believe it. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
A wild overpay on Albert Regis in slot 152, the sort that defines a class for the wrong reasons. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
Bobby Jamison-Travis at No. 183 is the pick scouts circle, and not in a good way. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
Kobe Baynes in pick No. 189 is fair value, right on his grade. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
The board screamed and they did not listen, reaching into the next round for Marvin Jones Jr.. Depth on depth, at a spot that was hardly crying out.
A real head-scratcher, Jordan Hall in the 257th overall pick is miles ahead of his ranking. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
