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Dallas Cowboys
The Cowboys cashed the board's mistake on Kiser: A-.
by jehill72 ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 12 picks
· 8 steals
· 0 reaches
You build a draft on nights like this. Jack Kiser had no business being available in No. 247, and the Cowboys did the only sane thing and turned in the card. This is how you run a draft, and the A- reflects it.
The trade ledger is the best part of the whole weekend. The cornerback spot stays a question, and it was the one they most needed an answer at.
Add it up and this is about as clean as a draft weekend gets.
Pick-by-Pick
In pick 14 they get a true top target. The biggest hole, addressed.
A market-rate interior defensive lineman, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Tyleik Williams. A need, and now a little less of one.
They robbed the room for Devin Neal here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
A interior defensive lineman of that caliber at No. 149 is the definition of value, full stop. It fills a real need, too.
Kyle McCord at the 151st overall pick is a first-round grade at a bargain-bin price, no notes. It patches a soft spot without any drama.
Chase Lundt in pick No. 170 is a bargain the rest of the room will envy. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
A clean, defensible pick in slot 171 with a little surplus value in Ajani Cornelius. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
No drama and no debate, JJ Pegues went about where he belonged in Round 5, Pick 36. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
Somehow Jack Nelson was still sitting there in the 188th pick, and they pounced on premier offensive lineman value. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
They stopped a slide they were happy to see, landing Upton Stout in slot 189. It adds depth where they could use a little.
KeAndre Lambert-Smith at the Round 6 slot is the steal of the weekend, a first-round talent at a bargain-bin price. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
Taking Jack Kiser in the 247th overall pick is close to grand larceny; a linebacker that good had no business lasting this long. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.