COWBOYS MOCK DRAFT GRADE B

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

by apassaro · 2025 NFL Draft · 13 picks · 13 steals · 0 reaches
Value A+
Need B+
Trades C+
Future B-

You build a draft on nights like this. Xavier Restrepo had no business being available in pick 242, and the Cowboys did the only sane thing and turned in the card. Good, not great, and the B says as much.

A whole weekend of picks and tight end is somehow still a want. Wide receiver was the priority and it is no longer a question, which is most of the job.

Value over need was the throughline, for better and worse.

In sum, a sturdy weekend with one asterisk, the tight end spot they never got to.

Pick-by-Pick

R1.16 · Pick 16 · Travis Hunter · CB · rank 1
Travis Hunter slipping to slot 16 is the kind of luck good rooms make for themselves. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
R2.15 · Pick 47 · Ashton Jeanty · RB · rank 2
Steal is underselling it; Ashton Jeanty at Round 2, Pick 15 is a heist with the alarm still ringing. It patches a soft spot without any drama.
R3.14 · Pick 78 · Walter Nolen · DT · rank 16
Circle this one: Walter Nolen at pick No. 78 is a fall that decides a draft. The roster fit checks out.
R5.9 · Pick 147 · Josaiah Stewart · DE-EDGE · rank 52
Josaiah Stewart at No. 147 is the steal of the weekend, a first-round talent at a bargain-bin price. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
R5.15 · Pick 153 · Tre Harris · WR · rank 14
Tre Harris in the 153rd pick is a gift, value that borders on unfair. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
R5.31 · Pick 169 · Cam Ward · QB · rank 4
They robbed the room for Cam Ward here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
R5.32 · Pick 170 · Wyatt Milum · OT · rank 24
A top-tier offensive lineman at a bargain, Wyatt Milum in the 170th overall pick, plain and simple. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
R6.14 · Pick 189 · T.J. Sanders · DT · rank 72
T.J. Sanders at the Round 6 slot is a first-round grade at a bargain-bin price, no notes. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
R6.31 · Pick 206 · Deontae Lawson · LB · rank 84
A linebacker of that caliber at slot 206 is the definition of value, full stop. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
R6.33 · Pick 208 · Dylan Fairchild · OG · rank 60
Taking Dylan Fairchild in pick 208 is close to grand larceny; an offensive lineman that good had no business lasting this long. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
R7.7 · Pick 221 · Raheim Sanders · RB · rank 124
Raheim Sanders in the Round 7 slot should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
R7.16 · Pick 230 · Rylie Mills · DL · rank 114
They will replay Rylie Mills at pick No. 230 for years; that is how good the value is. A need, and now a little less of one.
R7.28 · Pick 242 · Xavier Restrepo · WR · rank 13
Xavier Restrepo at No. 242 is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
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