B
Dallas Cowboys
Alexander should have been long gone. The Cowboys pounced, and earned a B.
by HR ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 14 picks
· 11 steals
· 2 reaches
Thirty-one other rooms let Zy Alexander slide, and the Cowboys were the ones holding the card at No. 150. Highway robbery.
They will need Higgins to outplay his draft slot in a hurry to justify it. They went 8 of 8 on their needs, which is most of what a draft is for.
Not a headline-grabber, but a perfectly good weekend's work.
Pick-by-Pick
In slot 12 they get a quarterback's worst nightmare at a price that makes it sweeter.
A top-tier wide receiver at a bargain, Emeka Egbuka in the 45th pick, plain and simple. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
They let Dylan Sampson come to them and pounced at the 76th overall pick. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
Maxwell Hairston at No. 116 is a first-round grade at a bargain-bin price, no notes. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
Taking Zy Alexander in pick 150 is close to grand larceny; a cornerback that good had no business lasting this long. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
Jay Higgins in the Round 5 slot is a reach so steep the board needed a second look to believe it. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
They robbed the room for Kurtis Rourke here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
Logan Brown in Round 5, Pick 33 is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
Connor Colby in pick 174 is fair value, right on his grade. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
The board had cheaper options than CJ West at the 198th pick, and it noticed. A need, and now a little less of one.
A tight end of that caliber at Round 6, Pick 33 is the definition of value, full stop. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
Jordan Hancock in the 234th overall pick is a gift, value that borders on unfair. Depth more than a fix, but depth they can use.
A slide stopped in pick No. 246, with Oluwafemi Oladejo worth more than the price. They doubled down on a strength rather than a need.
You do not let a wide receiver like Dont'e Thornton Jr. reach the Round 7 slot and blink. They did not. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.