B
Dallas Cowboys
The Cowboys robbed the room for Higgins. Final grade: B.
by PEDRO EL VAQUERO ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 10 picks
· 5 steals
· 3 reaches
The board owed the Cowboys one, and it paid up: Jay Higgins, the No. 61 name on the board, sitting there at the 149th pick like a gift left on the doorstep.
Wedig has a lot of ground to make up just to look fairly priced. They covered a lot of ground and still skipped quarterback, which is a strange place to end up.
All told, a draft that does its job without fuss, and there is real value in that.
Pick-by-Pick
In Round 1, Pick 13 they get a wrecking ball inside at fair value.
Value with a capital V on Luther Burden III in pick No. 42, a genuine coup. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
They robbed the room for Omarion Hampton here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. It patches a soft spot without any drama.
LT Overton in No. 114 is a reach so steep the board needed a second look to believe it. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
Circle this one: Jay Higgins at the Round 5 slot is a fall that decides a draft. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
You do not let a safety like Keon Sabb reach pick 169 and blink. They did not. Useful body for a position without much behind the starter.
Steal is underselling it; Deontae Lawson at the 170th overall pick is a heist with the alarm still ringing. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
By-the-book stuff, Donovan Jackson at the 171st pick squarely in line with his ranking. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
Davison Igbinosun at the 186th pick is the kind of overdraft that needs everything to break right. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
Trey Wedig in the 209th overall pick is a bet on their own eyes over everyone else's grade. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
