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Best value of the weekend goes to the Cowboys for Trotter Jr.: B.

by frankefridrich · 2024 NFL Draft · 13 picks · 5 steals · 4 reaches
Value B
Need B+
Trades B+
Future B-

The value of the weekend has a name and a slot: Jeremiah Trotter Jr., pick No. 87, roughly 19 picks past where he belonged.

They are betting Watts proves the room right and everyone else wrong. That quarterback hole did not close this weekend, and it was the biggest one on the wall.

On the needs board they went 6 of 8, with wide receiver the one that mattered most. The trade work was a quiet net positive.

In short, they left a little better than they arrived, which is the whole idea.

Pick-by-Pick

R1.32 · Pick 32 · Graham Barton · OT · rank 26
In pick No. 32 they get a plug-and-play piece up front. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
R2.24 · Pick 56 · Jonathon Brooks · RB · rank 48
Jonathon Brooks slipping to Round 2, Pick 24 is the kind of luck good rooms make for themselves. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
R3.24 · Pick 87 · Jeremiah Trotter Jr. · LB · rank 68
Jeremiah Trotter Jr. in No. 87 is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
R3.32 · Pick 95 · Calen Bullock · S · rank 83
The board had Calen Bullock higher than pick 95, and the safety fell to them anyway. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
R4.1 · Pick 101 · Brenden Rice · WR · rank 97
A tidy little value on Brenden Rice in slot 101, a step better than break-even. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
R4.32 · Pick 132 · Roger Rosengarten · OT · rank 135
Roger Rosengarten in the 132nd pick is fair value, right on his grade. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
R5.6 · Pick 142 · Jalyx Hunt · DE-EDGE · rank 152
They went early on Jalyx Hunt in the 142nd overall pick, and the value did not follow. Depth more than a fix, but depth they can use.
R5.30 · Pick 166 · Isaiah Davis · RB · rank 155
Quietly one of the better values of the day, Isaiah Davis at the Round 5 slot. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
R5.38 · Pick 174 · Fabien Lovett · DL · rank 183
They paid a round early for Fabien Lovett in the Round 5 slot, more than the board wanted. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
R6.41 · Pick 216 · Jaylan Ford · LB · rank 205
They let Jaylan Ford come to them and pounced at the 216th pick. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
R7.13 · Pick 233 · Keaton Bills · OG · rank 240
Keaton Bills in the 233rd overall pick is exactly on the number, no argument either way. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
R7.20 · Pick 240 · Jordan Whittington · WR · rank 248
They liked Jordan Whittington enough to skip the value, taking him in No. 240. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
R7.24 · Pick 244 · Ryan Watts · CB · rank 260
A reach on Ryan Watts in pick 244; the board had better options right there. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
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