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Dallas Cowboys

The Cowboys answered their biggest question with Sanders. Grade: D-.

by Top Gun · 2025 NFL Draft · 10 picks · 6 steals · 0 reaches
Value B
Need B+
Trades F
Future C

The rest of the league will want that one back. Deontae Lawson tumbling to the Cowboys in pick No. 168 is a gift they did not have to think twice about. Put together, it is a D-.

Shedeur Sanders gives the offense a face and a plan, and the grade leans heavily on whether he hits. The dealing is the wound this class cannot quite close.

The cornerback spot stays a question, and it was the one they most needed an answer at.

Bottom line, they will need several of these picks to beat their grades just to break even.

Pick-by-Pick

R1.2 · Pick 2 · Shedeur Sanders · QB · rank 4
In No. 2 they get a long-term answer under center at fair value. A real need, handled.
R1.3 · Pick 3 · Tetairoa McMillan · WR · rank 5
No edge and no loss on Tetairoa McMillan in pick No. 3; it is a wash and a sensible one. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
R1.6 · Pick 6 · Mason Graham · DT · rank 6
In Round 1, Pick 6 they get a pocket-collapsing interior rusher. A clean fit for the roster.
R2.2 · Pick 34 · Omarion Hampton · RB · rank 18
Omarion Hampton slipping to the 34th overall pick is the kind of luck good rooms make for themselves. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
R3.12 · Pick 76 · Tyleik Williams · DT · rank 55
Steal is underselling it; Tyleik Williams at slot 76 is a heist with the alarm still ringing. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
R3.29 · Pick 93 · Dylan Fairchild · OG · rank 57
The board fumbled Dylan Fairchild all the way to No. 93, and they scooped it up. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
R5.11 · Pick 148 · Quinshon Judkins · RB · rank 74
A top-tier running back at a bargain, Quinshon Judkins in the Round 5 slot, plain and simple. It fills a real need, too.
R5.31 · Pick 168 · Deontae Lawson · LB · rank 82
They barely believed it either: Deontae Lawson still on the board at pick 168. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
R5.33 · Pick 170 · Danny Stutsman · LB · rank 87
Danny Stutsman in the 170th pick should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
R5.36 · Pick 173 · Shemar Turner · DL · rank 172
Shemar Turner in pick No. 173 is fair value, right on his grade. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
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