Nobody else had Chip Trayanum anywhere near Round 6, Pick 26. The Cowboys did, by 69 spots, and that gap is the whole story.

Overpaying at the table undid a lot of the good work elsewhere. Shedeur Sanders gives the offense a face and a plan, and the grade leans heavily on whether he hits. If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through cornerback.

It is not that Barron is a bad player; it is that the Cowboys had louder needs to answer first. Sawyer falling to them is the kind of break a good board is built to catch.

Bottom line, they will need several of these picks to beat their grades just to break even, and cornerback is still a hole.