COWBOYS MOCK DRAFT GRADE B+

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Dallas Cowboys

The Cowboys did the meat-and-potatoes work well: B+.

by arngar · 2025 NFL Draft · 10 picks · 3 steals · 6 reaches
Value C
Need B+
Trades A
Future B+

If confidence were a draft strategy, the Cowboys would have aced it. Jaydon Blue at the Round 7 slot is 81 spots clear of where he belonged. A sturdy weekend that grades out a B+.

That is a cornerback worth more than the slot they spent on him, plainly. That quarterback hole did not close this weekend, and it was the biggest one on the wall.

Wide receiver was the priority and it is no longer a question, which is most of the job.

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

Pick-by-Pick

R1.15 · Pick 15 · Grey Zabel · OT · rank 33
In pick 15 they get a building block for the line, though the board says they badly overpaid. Exactly the need they had to hit.
R2.12 · Pick 44 · Jalon Walker · LB · rank 20
You do not let a linebacker like Jalon Walker reach slot 44 and blink. They did not. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
R3.12 · Pick 76 · Savion Williams · WR · rank 98
Savion Williams at the Round 3 slot is the pick scouts circle, and not in a good way. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
R5.11 · Pick 150 · Joshua Farmer · DT · rank 123
Joshua Farmer at Round 5, Pick 11 is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
R5.31 · Pick 170 · Cam Jackson · DT · rank 230
Cam Jackson at pick No. 170 is the kind of overdraft that needs everything to break right. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
R5.33 · Pick 172 · Ollie Gordon II · RB · rank 175
They took Ollie Gordon II at par in the 172nd pick, which is nothing to complain about. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
R5.35 · Pick 174 · Jaylen Reed · S · rank 188
Jaylen Reed at slot 174 is a clear overpay, with better names still on the board. Useful body for a position without much behind the starter.
R6.12 · Pick 190 · Jaishawn Barham · LB · rank 237
Jaishawn Barham at Round 6, Pick 12 is an overdraft of the loud, memorable kind. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
R6.33 · Pick 211 · Dorian Strong · CB · rank 174
They robbed the room for Dorian Strong here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
R7.31 · Pick 249 · Jaydon Blue · RB · rank 330
A swing that ignored the value entirely, Jaydon Blue well ahead of where he belonged. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
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