B
Dallas Cowboys
The Cowboys let Knight Jr. fall into their laps, and walked away with a B.
by HR ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 10 picks
· 7 steals
· 2 reaches
The Cowboys did not reach, did not trade up, did not blink. They just waited, and Demetrius Knight Jr. fell into the 170th pick. It nets out to a B, which feels about right.
The Crenshaw-Dickson pick is the one the value grade keeps tripping over. They punted on quarterback, and it is the miss that keeps the grade honest.
All told, a draft that does its job without fuss, and there is real value in that.
Pick-by-Pick
In pick No. 12 they get a premier pass rusher at a price that makes it sweeter.
A wide receiver of that caliber at Round 2, Pick 12 is the definition of value, full stop. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
Circle this one: Malaki Starks at the 76th pick is a fall that decides a draft. Depth more than a fix, but depth they can use.
They robbed the room for TreVeyon Henderson here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
Howard Cross III in No. 168 lands just on the right side of the ledger. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
Demetrius Knight Jr. at the Round 5 slot is a first-round grade at a bargain-bin price, no notes. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Jake Majors in pick 173 is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
They reached into another round for Brandon Crenshaw-Dickson, and the board is nowhere close to agreeing. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Terrance Ferguson in slot 209 is a gift, value that borders on unfair. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
They left a pile of value on the table to take Justin Walley this early at pick No. 248. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.