COWBOYS MOCK DRAFT GRADE D

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Dallas Cowboys

The phones sank the Cowboys this weekend: D.

by UKNOW · 2024 NFL Draft · 17 picks · 2 steals · 7 reaches
Value B-
Need B
Trades F
Future A+

The Ben Sinnott selection is the head-turner. The Cowboys reached 51 spots for him, and it will define how this weekend is remembered. The board pushed back all weekend, and the D is the result.

Overpaying at the table undid a lot of the good work elsewhere. Whatever else happened, they won the night they took Rice.

The verdict is not kind, and fairly so; this class has a hill to climb.

Pick-by-Pick

R1.9 · Pick 9 · Dallas Turner · LB-EDGE · rank 14
In Round 1, Pick 9 they get a disruptor off the edge. Need was not the driver here.
R1.24 · Pick 24 · Byron Murphy II · DL · rank 21
In pick 24 they get a disruptive interior force at fair value. A clean fit for the roster.
R1.29 · Pick 29 · Jordan Morgan · OT · rank 26
In No. 29 they get an anchor for the offensive line. Exactly the need they had to hit.
R2.3 · Pick 35 · J.J. McCarthy · QB · rank 43
They went early on J.J. McCarthy in the Round 2 slot, and the value did not follow. It patches a soft spot without any drama.
R2.24 · Pick 56 · Jermaine Burton · WR · rank 49
They did well to land Jermaine Burton in pick No. 56, just ahead of his grade. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
R3.2 · Pick 66 · Cooper Beebe · OG · rank 77
Cooper Beebe at the 66th pick is a clear overpay, with better names still on the board. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
R3.7 · Pick 71 · Junior Colson · LB · rank 75
A market-rate linebacker, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Junior Colson. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
R3.11 · Pick 75 · Payton Wilson · LB · rank 68
Payton Wilson in pick No. 75 is fine work, a shade of surplus and no downside. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
R3.24 · Pick 87 · Christian Mahogany · OG · rank 79
They let Christian Mahogany come to them and pounced at Round 3, Pick 24. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
R3.27 · Pick 90 · Brenden Rice · WR · rank 69
Somehow Brenden Rice was still sitting there in pick 90, and they pounced on premier wide receiver value. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
R3.29 · Pick 92 · Ben Sinnott · TE · rank 143
This one needs a full-page explanation: Ben Sinnott in the 92nd overall pick, miles early. The roster fit checks out.
R4.11 · Pick 111 · MarShawn Lloyd · RB · rank 130
They reached into another round for MarShawn Lloyd, and the board is nowhere close to agreeing. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
R4.25 · Pick 125 · Javon Foster · OT · rank 128
Javon Foster in the 125th pick is exactly on the number, no argument either way. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
R5.37 · Pick 173 · Grayson Murphy · DL-EDGE · rank 168
A clean, defensible pick in No. 173 with a little surplus value in Grayson Murphy. Nice player, but the depth chart did not need him here.
R6.13 · Pick 188 · Christian Jones · OT · rank 197
A reach for Christian Jones in the 188th pick; a little patience would have been rewarded. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
R6.38 · Pick 213 · Marcus Harris · DE-EDGE · rank 237
A wild overpay on Marcus Harris in Round 6, Pick 38, the sort that defines a class for the wrong reasons. A luxury on a unit that was already in good shape.
R7.22 · Pick 242 · Dwight McGlothern · CB · rank 257
They liked Dwight McGlothern enough to skip the value, taking him in No. 242. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
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