COWBOYS MOCK DRAFT GRADE B+

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Dallas Cowboys

The Cowboys cashed the board's mistake on Milum: B+.

by HR · 2025 NFL Draft · 12 picks · 12 steals · 0 reaches
Value A+
Need B+
Trades C+
Future B

Thirty-one other rooms let Wyatt Milum slide, and the Cowboys were the ones holding the card at pick 173. Highway robbery. They moved the roster forward and banked a B+ for it.

The roster is better shaped than it was, with wide receiver chief among the fixes. The weekend tilted hard toward the defense.

They chose more darts over a bigger single swing.

In sum, a sensible class that nudges the roster the right way.

Pick-by-Pick

R1.14 · Pick 14 · Travis Hunter · CB · rank 1
In pick 14 they get a potential shutdown corner at a price that makes it sweeter. The biggest hole, addressed.
R2.12 · Pick 44 · Ashton Jeanty · RB · rank 2
Circle this one: Ashton Jeanty at No. 44 is a fall that decides a draft. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
R3.12 · Pick 76 · Jahdae Barron · CB · rank 11
Jahdae Barron at Round 3, Pick 12 is the steal of the weekend, a first-round talent at a bargain-bin price. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
R4.14 · Pick 115 · Nick Emmanwori · S · rank 13
Steal is underselling it; Nick Emmanwori at the 115th overall pick is a heist with the alarm still ringing. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
R5.11 · Pick 148 · Walter Nolen · DT · rank 22
Taking Walter Nolen in slot 148 is close to grand larceny; an interior defensive lineman that good had no business lasting this long. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
R5.31 · Pick 168 · Tre Harris · WR · rank 24
Tre Harris at the Round 5 slot is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
R5.33 · Pick 170 · Jihaad Campbell · LB · rank 38
A top-tier linebacker at a bargain, Jihaad Campbell in pick No. 170, plain and simple. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
R5.36 · Pick 173 · Wyatt Milum · OT · rank 28
They barely believed it either: Wyatt Milum still on the board at the 173rd pick. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
R6.11 · Pick 186 · Dylan Fairchild · OG · rank 86
You do not let an offensive lineman like Dylan Fairchild reach slot 186 and blink. They did not. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
R6.12 · Pick 187 · Kyle Kennard · DE-EDGE · rank 75
Somehow Kyle Kennard was still sitting there in pick 187, and they pounced on premier edge rusher value. A minor need, but a need all the same.
R6.34 · Pick 209 · Gunnar Helm · TE · rank 67
They robbed the room for Gunnar Helm here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. The roster fit checks out.
R7.32 · Pick 248 · Kurtis Rourke · QB · rank 136
A quarterback of that caliber at the 248th overall pick is the definition of value, full stop. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
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