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Dallas Cowboys
The steal of the weekend belongs to the Cowboys and Ferguson: D.
by 88822 ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 15 picks
· 12 steals
· 0 reaches
The value of the weekend has a name and a slot: Terrance Ferguson, the Round 6 slot, roughly 93 picks past where he belonged.
They handed away value on the phones that the picks cannot earn back. They left with wide receiver solved and the rest of the wish list mostly ticked off.
The offense got the lion's share of the attention. Trading back for volume was the quiet throughline of their weekend.
It is a steep hill from here, and the grade knows it.
Pick-by-Pick
Ashton Jeanty in Round 1, Pick 12 is a bargain the rest of the room will envy. It patches a soft spot without any drama.
Emeka Egbuka at pick 37 is money in the bank, a wide receiver taken below his worth. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
Jihaad Campbell at slot 45 is a sound buy, the sort that quietly helps a class. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Value with a capital V on Azareye'h Thomas in No. 76, a genuine coup. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
Jake Majors at the 118th pick is the sort of value that quietly wins a weekend. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
Luke Kandra in the 119th overall pick lands just on the right side of the ledger. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
Somehow Joshua Farmer was still sitting there in pick No. 150, and they pounced on premier interior defensive lineman value. The roster fit checks out.
You do not let an offensive lineman like Hollin Pierce reach the Round 5 slot and blink. They did not. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
They barely believed it either: Jalen Milroe still on the board at slot 170. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
They took JJ Pegues at par in No. 172, which is nothing to complain about. It fills a real need, too.
Kalel Mullings in pick No. 174 is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
A safety of that caliber at the Round 6 slot is the definition of value, full stop. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
They robbed the room for Terrance Ferguson here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
Jay Higgins at the 234th overall pick is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
KeAndre Lambert-Smith at the 249th pick is a first-round grade at a bargain-bin price, no notes. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.