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Dallas Cowboys

A costly weekend of dealing drags the Cowboys to a D-.

by CowboyAngel · 2025 NFL Draft · 14 picks · 2 steals · 6 reaches
Value B-
Need B
Trades F
Future B-

Some picks age like wine; Trey Moore at pick 113 will need to, sitting 129 spots clear of his grade.

The trade table is where this weekend went wrong. The Moore pick is fine in a vacuum, less so with quarterback still on the board.

Whatever else happened, they won the night they took Starks. If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through quarterback.

Add it up and it is a weekend the front office will hope everyone forgets, quarterback very much included.

Pick-by-Pick

R1.5 · Pick 5 · Tetairoa McMillan · WR · rank 6
In slot 5 they get a matchup problem out wide at fair value. Exactly the need they had to hit.
R1.8 · Pick 8 · Ashton Jeanty · RB · rank 2
In Round 1, Pick 8 they get a lead back with juice. A clean fit for the roster.
R1.13 · Pick 13 · Mason Graham · DT · rank 8
In No. 13 they get a wrecking ball inside at fair value. A real need, handled.
R2.12 · Pick 44 · Smael Mondon Jr. · LB · rank 42
They paid sticker price for Smael Mondon Jr. in the Round 2 slot, and that is fine. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
R3.3 · Pick 67 · Malaki Starks · S · rank 19
Malaki Starks at pick 67 is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. It adds depth where they could use a little.
R3.6 · Pick 70 · Deone Walker · DT · rank 121
Value said wait; Deone Walker in the 70th overall pick says they were not listening. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
R3.13 · Pick 77 · Antwaun Powell-Ryland · DL-EDGE · rank 139
They left a pile of value on the table to take Antwaun Powell-Ryland this early at the 77th pick. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
R4.12 · Pick 113 · Trey Moore · LB-EDGE · rank 242
Of all the spots to shop, they chose edge rusher. Trey Moore in pick No. 113 leaves quarterback for later.
R5.13 · Pick 151 · Dont'e Thornton Jr. · WR · rank 158
Dont'e Thornton Jr. in the 151st overall pick is exactly on the number, no argument either way. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
R5.31 · Pick 169 · Gunnar Helm · TE · rank 181
A premium they did not need to pay, Gunnar Helm a notch or two before his time. It patches a soft spot without any drama.
R5.32 · Pick 170 · Xavier Nwankpa · S · rank 170
Xavier Nwankpa at slot 170 is right where the board had him, plain and simple. A luxury on a unit that was already in good shape.
R5.34 · Pick 172 · Davison Igbinosun · CB · rank 201
Davison Igbinosun at the Round 5 slot is an overdraft of the loud, memorable kind. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
R6.13 · Pick 188 · Connor Colby · OG · rank 155
Connor Colby at Round 6, Pick 13 is a first-round grade at a bargain-bin price, no notes. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
R6.34 · Pick 209 · Kyren Lacy · WR · rank 237
Kyren Lacy at pick 209 is the kind of overdraft that needs everything to break right. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
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