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Draft Selections
Will Johnson Head Shot
PICK: 12 RND: 1 (DAL)
Will Johnson
CB Michigan
Jalon Walker Head Shot
PICK: 44 RND: 2 (DAL)
Jalon Walker
LB Georgia
Dylan Sampson Head Shot
PICK: 76 RND: 3 (DAL)
Dylan Sampson
RB Tennessee
Ajani Cornelius Head Shot
PICK: 150 RND: 5 (DAL)
Ajani Cornelius
OT Oregon
Barryn Sorrell Head Shot
PICK: 170 RND: 5 (DAL)
Barryn Sorrell
LB-EDGE Texas
Nick Nash Head Shot
PICK: 172 RND: 5 (DAL)
Nick Nash
WR San Jose State
Jay Higgins Head Shot
PICK: 174 RND: 5 (DAL)
Jay Higgins
LB Iowa
Connor Colby Head Shot
PICK: 190 RND: 6 (DAL)
Connor Colby
OG Iowa
Ricky White III Head Shot
PICK: 211 RND: 6 (DAL)
Ricky White III
WR UNLV
Cody Lindenberg Head Shot
PICK: 249 RND: 7 (DAL)
Cody Lindenberg
LB Minnesota
Draft Grade — Cowboys
Overall B
ValueB NeedB+ TradesB- FutureB-
More right than wrong for the Cowboys, and a B to prove it.

The Cowboys treated their own grade as gospel and everyone else's as noise, spending the 170th pick on Barryn Sorrell a full 158 spots early. More right than wrong, and a B to match.

The Higgins value carries more weight than any single miss elsewhere. They punted on quarterback, and it is the miss that keeps the grade honest.

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

Pick Analysis
Pick12 Rnd1 Will Johnson
In the Round 1 slot they get an island corner. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
Pick44 Rnd2 Jalon Walker
Jalon Walker in pick 44 should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Pick76 Rnd3 Dylan Sampson
They let Dylan Sampson come to them and pounced at No. 76. It fills a real need, too.
Pick150 Rnd5 Ajani Cornelius
They robbed the room for Ajani Cornelius here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Pick170 Rnd5 Barryn Sorrell
A big swing on Barryn Sorrell at pick No. 170, well ahead of any board in the building. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
Pick172 Rnd5 Nick Nash
Value with a capital V on Nick Nash in Round 5, Pick 33, a genuine coup. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Pick174 Rnd5 Jay Higgins
Steal is underselling it; Jay Higgins at Round 5, Pick 35 is a heist with the alarm still ringing. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
Pick190 Rnd6 Connor Colby
Connor Colby at pick No. 190 is a sound buy, the sort that quietly helps a class. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
Pick211 Rnd6 Ricky White III
Good price on Ricky White III in the 211th pick, a hair ahead of his grade with no real quibbles. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
Pick249 Rnd7 Cody Lindenberg
A straight-up fair deal on Cody Lindenberg at the 249th overall pick, value and slot in agreement. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.