B+
Dallas Cowboys
The Cowboys won the weekend at the trade table. Grade: B+.
by psicosis6878yahoocom ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 9 picks
· 3 steals
· 4 reaches
The tape said wait; the Cowboys did not. Curtis Jacobs went at Round 5, Pick 1, a good 46 picks before the board was ready.
The dealing alone would carry a lesser class. They covered a lot of ground and still skipped wide receiver, which is a strange place to end up. The Hart pick alone nudges the whole weekend up a notch.
Good work on the whole, with wide receiver the one box left unchecked.
Pick-by-Pick
In No. 25 they get a cornerstone up front. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
They reached into another round for Christian Haynes, and the board is nowhere close to agreeing. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
Tykee Smith at pick No. 100 is a sound buy, the sort that quietly helps a class. Useful depth more than a marquee fix.
Curtis Jacobs at Round 5, Pick 1 is an overdraft of the loud, memorable kind. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
Quietly one of the better values of the day, Cam Hart at slot 153. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
They liked Jaylan Ford enough to skip the value, taking him in the 173rd pick. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
A slide stopped in the 188th pick, with Roger Rosengarten worth more than the price. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
A real head-scratcher, Trevor Keegan in Round 6, Pick 38 is miles ahead of his ranking. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Daequan Hardy at No. 242 is the sort of value that quietly wins a weekend. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
