NFL Draft 1st round winners and losers: Look out, the Cowboys made the best pick in the draft
The Cowboys have added multiple pieces to a defense that needed an overhaul.
Everyone knows how long it has been since the Dallas Cowboys have been to the NFC championship game. It’s brought up all the time. But what doesn’t get mentioned enough, as people fire off jokes about Jerry Jones, is that the Cowboys have hit some absolute home runs in the NFL Draft.
And they did it again on Thursday night. The Cowboys played the first night of the NFL Draft better than anyone. It helped to have two first-round picks, as a result of the debatable decision to trade Micah Parsons, but they maximized those picks.
It included taking a prospect who might end up being the best player in the draft. The Cowboys saw Ohio State safety Caleb Downs slipping, so they made a low-cost trade to move up one spot to No. 11 and take him.
The Cowboys traded picks 177 and 180 to Miami. They’d make that up later. With Downs, the Cowboys got a player many ( including Yahoo Sports’ Charles McDonald ) thought was the best prospect in the draft.
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