B
Dallas Cowboys
The Cowboys won the night they stopped Kennard from sliding. Grade: B.
by Daunte61 ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 23 picks
· 17 steals
· 2 reaches
The rest of the league will want that one back. Kyle Kennard tumbling to the Cowboys in Round 7, Pick 31 is a gift they did not have to think twice about. It nets out to a B, which feels about right.
Every deal seemed to tilt their way, which is not luck. They are betting Thornton Jr. proves the room right and everyone else wrong.
A workmanlike haul that should hold up just fine.
Pick-by-Pick
In No. 20 they get a downhill hitter at safety. Need was not the driver here.
In pick No. 21 they get a downhill thumper at linebacker at fair value. Exactly the need they had to hit.
Taking Ashton Jeanty in pick 48 is close to grand larceny; a running back that good had no business lasting this long. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
Dylan Sampson slipping to slot 76 is the kind of luck good rooms make for themselves. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
A top-tier interior defensive lineman at a bargain, Walter Nolen in the 81st pick, plain and simple. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
They will replay Wyatt Milum at the Round 3 slot for years; that is how good the value is. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
Dylan Fairchild at the 84th overall pick is a clear overpay, with better names still on the board. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
Jack Bech is a better player than Round 3, Pick 21 suggests; smart patience, rewarded. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
Savion Williams in pick No. 98 is exactly on the number, no argument either way. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
The board fumbled Jihaad Campbell all the way to the 99th overall pick, and they scooped it up. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Circle this one: Jahdae Barron at the Round 4 slot is a fall that decides a draft. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
Quietly one of the better values of the day, Cam Skattebo at the 120th pick. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
Jaxson Dart in pick 138 is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
A cornerback of that caliber at slot 139 is the definition of value, full stop. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
You do not let an interior defensive lineman like Alfred Collins reach Round 5, Pick 11 and blink. They did not. It fills a real need, too.
By-the-book stuff, Tyler Shough at No. 154 squarely in line with his ranking. The roster fit checks out.
They paid a round early for Dont'e Thornton Jr. in No. 170, more than the board wanted. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
Somehow Mason Taylor was still sitting there in the Round 5 slot, and they pounced on premier tight end value. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
Steal is underselling it; Darien Porter at pick No. 174 is a heist with the alarm still ringing. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
They barely believed it either: Malachi Moore still on the board at the 190th pick. A luxury on a unit that was already in good shape.
Armand Membou in the 195th overall pick is a gift, value that borders on unfair. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
Demetrius Knight Jr. at slot 211 is the steal of the weekend, a first-round talent at a bargain-bin price. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Kyle Kennard at Round 7, Pick 31 is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.