COWBOYS MOCK DRAFT GRADE B

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Dallas Cowboys

The Cowboys cashed the board's mistake on Hadden: B.

by Rockkicker · 2024 NFL Draft · 7 picks · 7 steals · 0 reaches
Value A
Need B+
Trades B-
Future B-

Somewhere a general manager is explaining how Kamal Hadden got past him. The Cowboys do not have to explain a thing at No. 233. It does the job without flash, and the B reflects it.

A whole weekend of picks and quarterback is somehow still a want. Wide receiver is handled and the depth chart looks a good deal healthier for it.

In sum, a sturdy weekend with one asterisk, the quarterback spot they never got to.

Pick-by-Pick

R1.24 · Pick 24 · Olumuyiwa Fashanu · OT · rank 8
In pick No. 24 they get protection for the quarterback at a price that makes it sweeter. Exactly the need they had to hit.
R2.24 · Pick 56 · Jonathon Brooks · RB · rank 48
Nice patience on Jonathon Brooks, who had no business lasting to pick 56. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
R3.24 · Pick 87 · Jeremiah Trotter Jr. · LB · rank 67
Somehow Jeremiah Trotter Jr. was still sitting there in Round 3, Pick 24, and they pounced on premier linebacker value. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
R5.38 · Pick 174 · Anthony Gould · WR · rank 142
Taking Anthony Gould in No. 174 is close to grand larceny; a wide receiver that good had no business lasting this long. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
R6.41 · Pick 216 · Grayson Murphy · DL-EDGE · rank 177
Steal is underselling it; Grayson Murphy at the 216th pick is a heist with the alarm still ringing. Useful body for a position without much behind the starter.
R7.13 · Pick 233 · Kamal Hadden · CB · rank 168
Kamal Hadden in slot 233 is a gift, value that borders on unfair. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
R7.24 · Pick 244 · Fabien Lovett · DL · rank 184
Circle this one: Fabien Lovett at the 244th overall pick is a fall that decides a draft. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.