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Draft Selections
Jeremiyah Love Head Shot
PICK: 12 RND: 1 (DAL)
Jeremiyah Love
RB Notre Dame
R Mason Thomas Head Shot
PICK: 20 RND: 1 (DAL)
R Mason Thomas
DE-EDGE Oklahoma
Kyle Louis Head Shot
PICK: 92 RND: 3 (DAL)
Kyle Louis
LB Pittsburgh
Mason Reiger Head Shot
PICK: 112 RND: 4 (DAL)
Mason Reiger
LB-EDGE Wisconsin
Nyjalik Kelly Head Shot
PICK: 152 RND: 5 (DAL)
Nyjalik Kelly
DE-EDGE UCF
Cyrus Allen Head Shot
PICK: 177 RND: 5 (DAL)
Cyrus Allen
WR Cincinnati
Kobe Baynes Head Shot
PICK: 180 RND: 5 (DAL)
Kobe Baynes
OG Kansas
Tyler Onyedim Head Shot
PICK: 218 RND: 7 (DAL)
Tyler Onyedim
DE-EDGE Texas A&M
Draft Grade — Cowboys
Overall B-
ValueB- NeedB TradesB- FutureB-
Nothing loud, just a tidy B- for the Cowboys.

Nobody had Tyler Onyedim this high, and it is not close. The Cowboys reached 56 spots to get him at the 218th overall pick. They moved the roster forward and banked a B- for it.

That cornerback hole did not close this weekend, and it was the biggest one on the wall. With cornerback, quarterback and other spots unsolved, spending premium capital on edge rusher is the choice that costs them. Allen falling to them is the kind of break a good board is built to catch.

The roster is better shaped than it was, with wide receiver chief among the fixes.

Not a headline-grabber, but a perfectly good weekend's work.

Pick Analysis
Pick12 Rnd1 Jeremiyah Love
In pick 12 they get a centerpiece for the ground game, and a steal at that.
Pick20 Rnd1 R Mason Thomas
In No. 20 they get a quarterback's worst nightmare, reach and all. Need was not the driver here.
Pick92 Rnd3 Kyle Louis
Kyle Louis in Round 3, Pick 28 is a bargain the rest of the room will envy. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
Pick112 Rnd4 Mason Reiger
Hard to square with the roster. With positions of obvious need still on the board, Mason Reiger adds an edge rusher and leaves cornerback, quarterback and other spots untouched.
Pick152 Rnd5 Nyjalik Kelly
Value said wait; Nyjalik Kelly in the 152nd pick says they were not listening. A luxury on a unit that was already in good shape.
Pick177 Rnd5 Cyrus Allen
Good things come to war rooms that wait, and Cyrus Allen at the Round 5 slot is the proof. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
Pick180 Rnd5 Kobe Baynes
They went early on Kobe Baynes in the Round 5 slot, and the value did not follow. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Pick218 Rnd7 Tyler Onyedim
Tyler Onyedim at pick No. 218 is the pick scouts circle, and not in a good way. A want dressed up as a pick, at a spot they had covered.