COWBOYS MOCK DRAFT GRADE B

God first then commen sense B

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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
Value B
Need B+
Trades B-
Future B-

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

R1.12 · Pick 12 · Will Johnson · CB · rank 8
In the Round 1 slot they get an island corner. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
R2.12 · Pick 44 · Jalon Walker · LB · rank 20
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.
R3.12 · Pick 76 · Dylan Sampson · RB · rank 65
They let Dylan Sampson come to them and pounced at No. 76. It fills a real need, too.
R5.11 · Pick 150 · Ajani Cornelius · OT · rank 114
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.
R5.31 · Pick 170 · Barryn Sorrell · LB-EDGE · rank 328
A big swing on Barryn Sorrell at pick No. 170, well ahead of any board in the building. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
R5.33 · Pick 172 · Nick Nash · WR · rank 155
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.
R5.35 · Pick 174 · Jay Higgins · LB · rank 137
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.
R6.12 · Pick 190 · Connor Colby · OG · rank 183
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.
R6.33 · Pick 211 · Ricky White III · WR · rank 206
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.
R7.31 · Pick 249 · Cody Lindenberg · LB · rank 249
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.