B+
Dallas Cowboys
The Cowboys robbed the room for Stukes. Final grade: B+.
by Crazylife ·
2026 NFL Draft
· 11 picks
· 6 steals
· 0 reaches
Whoever sat across the table from the Cowboys should ask for a receipt. They cleaned the room out, prying loose far more value than they gave up, and it was the quiet MVP of their weekend.
That is a cornerback worth more than the slot they spent on him, plainly. That quarterback hole did not close this weekend, and it was the biggest one on the wall.
In sum, a sturdy weekend with one asterisk, the quarterback spot they never got to.
Pick-by-Pick
In pick 18 they get a coverage-and-run second-level piece at a price that makes it sweeter. The biggest hole, addressed.
In the 20th overall pick they get a bell-cow for the offense, and a steal at that. A real need, handled.
D'Angelo Ponds at the Round 2 slot is right where the board had him, plain and simple. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
Michael Taaffe at slot 92 is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. Depth more than a fix, but depth they can use.
Somehow Treydan Stukes was still sitting there in the 97th pick, and they pounced on premier cornerback value. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
They robbed the room for Deion Burks here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
A clean, defensible pick in No. 152 with a little surplus value in Isaiah World. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
A straight-up fair deal on Bryce Boettcher at the 177th overall pick, value and slot in agreement. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Aamil Wagner at pick No. 180 is a sound buy, the sort that quietly helps a class. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
The board had Domani Jackson higher than slot 196, and the cornerback fell to them anyway. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
They paid sticker price for Bobby Jamison-Travis in the Round 7 slot, and that is fine. A need, and now a little less of one.
