B-
Dallas Cowboys
The Cowboys let Neal fall and pounced. Final grade: B-.
by jmt1980 ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 11 picks
· 8 steals
· 0 reaches
The value of the weekend has a name and a slot: Devin Neal, slot 170, roughly 87 picks past where he belonged.
The cornerback spot stays a question, and it was the one they most needed an answer at. A small leak at the table, if not a fatal one. The roster is better shaped than it was, with wide receiver chief among the fixes.
The skill positions did well by the weekend.
In sum, a sensible class that nudges the roster the right way.
Pick-by-Pick
In pick 21 they get a difference-maker at receiver. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
Omarion Hampton at Round 2, Pick 12 is the steal of the weekend, a first-round talent at a bargain-bin price. The roster fit checks out.
Fair-plus on Deone Walker, a quiet win that adds up over a draft. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
They will replay Jake Majors at the 124th overall pick for years; that is how good the value is. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
The board fumbled Barrett Carter all the way to No. 148, and they scooped it up. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Taking Rod Moore in slot 168 is close to grand larceny; a safety that good had no business lasting this long. A minor need, but a need all the same.
You do not let a running back like Devin Neal reach the Round 5 slot and blink. They did not. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
They robbed the room for Danny Stutsman here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
They paid sticker price for Addison West in No. 187, and that is fine. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Somehow Hunter Wohler was still sitting there in the 247th pick, and they pounced on premier safety value. A want dressed up as a pick, at a spot they had covered.
They barely believed it either: Terrance Ferguson still on the board at Round 7, Pick 39. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
