C
Dallas Cowboys
The Cowboys land in the muddy middle: C.
by Al Tha Pal ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 11 picks
· 2 steals
· 7 reaches
The move everyone will second-guess came early. The Cowboys reached some 29 spots for Zach Frazier, and value like that does not grow back. The good and the questionable cancel out to a C.
If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through quarterback. The Phillips value carries more weight than any single miss elsewhere.
It is a win-now wager, and the future is the stake.
If Jordan Morgan and a couple of the gambles land, hindsight will be kinder than this grade.
Pick-by-Pick
In slot 30 they get a plug-and-play piece up front. The biggest hole, addressed.
In Round 1, Pick 32 they get a building block for the line, a steep price for the projection. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
This one needs a full-page explanation: Kingsley Suamataia in the 37th overall pick, miles early. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Junior Colson in the Round 2 slot lands just on the right side of the ledger. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Trey Benson in No. 87 is the kind of reach that only looks good if he outplays it. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
Tommy Eichenberg in pick 131 is early enough to raise a brow, if not a full objection. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
Andru Phillips is a better player than slot 133 suggests; smart patience, rewarded. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Good things come to war rooms that wait, and Isaiah Davis at No. 173 is the proof. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
They paid a round early for Nathaniel Watson in the 196th overall pick, more than the board wanted. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
Joshua Cephus in pick No. 231 is a bet on their own eyes over everyone else's grade. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
The board screamed and they did not listen, reaching into the next round for De'Corian Clark. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.