B
Dallas Cowboys
More right than wrong for the Cowboys, and a B to prove it.
by Derrick ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 10 picks
· 5 steals
· 1 reaches
The Cowboys treated their own grade as gospel and everyone else's as noise, spending the 170th pick on Barryn Sorrell a full 158 spots early. More right than wrong, and a B to match.
The Higgins value carries more weight than any single miss elsewhere. They punted on quarterback, and it is the miss that keeps the grade honest.
Good work on the whole, with quarterback the one box left unchecked.
Pick-by-Pick
In the Round 1 slot they get an island corner. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
Jalon Walker in pick 44 should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
They let Dylan Sampson come to them and pounced at No. 76. It fills a real need, too.
They robbed the room for Ajani Cornelius here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
A big swing on Barryn Sorrell at pick No. 170, well ahead of any board in the building. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
Value with a capital V on Nick Nash in Round 5, Pick 33, a genuine coup. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Steal is underselling it; Jay Higgins at Round 5, Pick 35 is a heist with the alarm still ringing. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
Connor Colby at pick No. 190 is a sound buy, the sort that quietly helps a class. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
Good price on Ricky White III in the 211th pick, a hair ahead of his grade with no real quibbles. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
A straight-up fair deal on Cody Lindenberg at the 249th overall pick, value and slot in agreement. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
