B
Dallas Cowboys
Grand theft in pick No. 249: the Cowboys steal Gordon II and grade out a B.
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2025 NFL Draft
· 9 picks
· 8 steals
· 0 reaches
The board owed the Cowboys one, and it paid up: Ollie Gordon II, the No. 175 name on the board, sitting there at pick No. 249 like a gift left on the doorstep.
For all the activity, cornerback went untouched, which is hard to explain. Small wins on the phones, but wins all the same.
Good work on the whole, with cornerback the one box left unchecked.
Pick-by-Pick
In Round 1, Pick 12 they get a weapon on the perimeter. The biggest hole, addressed.
Malaki Starks at pick 44 is a first-round grade at a bargain-bin price, no notes. Depth more than a fix, but depth they can use.
A slide stopped in pick No. 76, with Demetrius Knight Jr. worth more than the price. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
A top-tier interior defensive lineman at a bargain, Darius Alexander in No. 170, plain and simple. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
They robbed the room for Kyren Lacy here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
Raheim Sanders slid further than he should have, and the Round 5 slot is lovely value for the running back. It patches a soft spot without any drama.
Somehow Mitchell Evans was still sitting there in the 190th pick, and they pounced on premier tight end value. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
Antwane Wells Jr. in the 211th overall pick is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
They will replay Ollie Gordon II at No. 249 for years; that is how good the value is. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
