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Draft Selections
Taliese Fuaga Head Shot
PICK: 24 RND: 1 (DAL)
Taliese Fuaga
OT Oregon State
T'Vondre Sweat Head Shot
PICK: 56 RND: 2 (DAL)
T'Vondre Sweat
DT Texas
Trey Benson Head Shot
PICK: 87 RND: 3 (DAL)
Trey Benson
RB Florida State
Marist Liufau Head Shot
PICK: 174 RND: 5 (DAL)
Marist Liufau
LB Notre Dame
Jha'Quan Jackson Head Shot
PICK: 216 RND: 6 (DAL)
Jha'Quan Jackson
WR Tulane
C.J. Hanson Head Shot
PICK: 233 RND: 7 (DAL)
C.J. Hanson
OG Holy Cross
Tyrice Knight Head Shot
PICK: 244 RND: 7 (DAL)
Tyrice Knight
LB UTEP
Draft Grade — Cowboys
Overall B
ValueB NeedB+ TradesB- FutureB-
Best value of the weekend goes to the Cowboys for Jackson: B.

Every so often the board makes a mistake, and the Cowboys were there to profit. Jha'Quan Jackson, the No. 177 name on the board, should have been long gone before pick No. 216. Nothing here to lose sleep over; call it a B.

They are betting Hanson proves the room right and everyone else wrong. They covered a lot of ground and still skipped cornerback, which is a strange place to end up.

They went 5 of 8 on their needs, which is most of what a draft is for. The trenches got the money picks, top to bottom.

Good work on the whole, with cornerback the one box left unchecked.

Pick Analysis
Pick24 Rnd1 Taliese Fuaga
In slot 24 they get a building block for the line, outstanding value to boot. Exactly the need they had to hit.
Pick56 Rnd2 T'Vondre Sweat
Nice patience on T'Vondre Sweat, who had no business lasting to Round 2, Pick 24. A need, and now a little less of one.
Pick87 Rnd3 Trey Benson
They paid sticker price for Trey Benson in No. 87, and that is fine. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
Pick174 Rnd5 Marist Liufau
Marist Liufau slipping to pick No. 174 is the kind of luck good rooms make for themselves. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
Pick216 Rnd6 Jha'Quan Jackson
Jha'Quan Jackson at the Round 6 slot 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.
Pick233 Rnd7 C.J. Hanson
A wild overpay on C.J. Hanson in the 233rd overall pick, the sort that defines a class for the wrong reasons. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Pick244 Rnd7 Tyrice Knight
A premium they did not need to pay, Tyrice Knight a notch or two before his time. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.