D
Dallas Cowboys
The phones sank the Cowboys this weekend: D.
by Grumpy ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 20 picks
· 1 steals
· 9 reaches
Some picks age like wine; Tanner Mordecai at the Round 7 slot will need to, sitting 65 spots clear of his grade. A D that will need time and luck to look better.
Overpaying at the table undid a lot of the good work elsewhere. The Watson value carries more weight than any single miss elsewhere. The hoard sets up next April more than it helps this September.
A rough weekend that leaves the roster with more questions than answers.
Pick-by-Pick
In the 26th overall pick they get an island corner. Exactly the need they had to hit.
They liked J.J. McCarthy enough to skip the value, taking him in Round 2, Pick 4. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
Jackson Powers-Johnson in No. 40 is early enough to raise a brow, if not a full objection. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
A reach for Brenden Rice in the Round 2 slot; a little patience would have been rewarded. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
They paid sticker price for Jonathon Brooks in pick No. 56, and that is fine. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
They paid a round early for Cooper Beebe in slot 66, more than the board wanted. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
They did well to land Jeremiah Trotter Jr. in the 67th pick, just ahead of his grade. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
Blake Corum at the Round 3 slot is right where the board had him, plain and simple. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
By-the-book stuff, Payton Wilson at the 70th overall pick squarely in line with his ranking. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Mekhi Wingo at pick No. 71 is a sound buy, the sort that quietly helps a class. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
Javon Foster at pick 100 is a steep price for a hunch, hard to square with any board. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
James Williams at Round 4, Pick 33 nudges the ledger their way without any fuss. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
They went early on Josh Proctor in No. 174, and the value did not follow. Stacking talent where they were already deep.
Nothing to complain about; Jase McClellan went a shade earlier than his grade, which is fine. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
Evan Anderson in Round 6, Pick 40 is a reach so steep the board needed a second look to believe it. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
A market-rate offensive lineman, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Trevor Keegan. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
A tidy little value on Taulia Tagovailoa in pick 226, a step better than break-even. The roster fit checks out.
Value said wait; Tanner Mordecai in No. 227 says they were not listening. It fills a real need, too.
Nice patience on Nathaniel Watson, who had no business lasting to the 245th pick. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
Mason Fairchild at pick No. 252 is an overdraft of the loud, memorable kind. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.