F
Dallas Cowboys
The Cowboys let Gabriel fall into their laps, and walked away with a F.
by MWILDCAT7 ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 8 picks
· 4 steals
· 2 reaches
It is the swing that defines the weekend: Riley Leonard in slot 44, a good 57 spots before the room expected him.
On value alone, Gabriel makes the weekend a net positive. The dealing is the wound this class cannot quite close.
They punted on wide receiver, and it is the miss that keeps the grade honest. Spend now, pay later; the math only works if this class delivers.
There is no soft landing here: they fought the board and left wide receiver open, and the grade is the bill.
Pick-by-Pick
In pick 2 they get a sticky cover corner. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
Value said wait; Riley Leonard in the 44th pick says they were not listening. The roster fit checks out.
Steal is underselling it; Cam Skattebo at pick No. 149 is a heist with the alarm still ringing. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
Cobee Bryant at Round 5, Pick 36 is neither steal nor reach, just the going rate. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Jaylen Reed in the 204th pick should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
They robbed the room for Dillon Gabriel here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. A need, and now a little less of one.
Shilo Sanders at the Round 7 slot is an overdraft of the loud, memorable kind. They added to a strength when a need was still open elsewhere.
Cody Lindenberg in pick No. 257 is a bargain the rest of the room will envy. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.