FRISCO, TX – The Dallas Cowboys are getting ready to head into draft week that has officially started. The pre draft press conference took place in Frisco TX on Monday afternoon and here are some takeaways from Jerry Jones, Stephen Jones, and head coach Mike McCarthy. The Cowboys have seven total selections with their first at No. 26 overall.
- Movement outside of 26
- Stacking the board/15-18 first round grades
- Trusting their gut is important
- S2 cognitive test in-house as extra tool
- Big draft-day trade
- Want coaches to be involved in a big way
- Josh Ball with inside/outside flex
- “Tremendous attendance” at voluntary workouts
- Not out on taking TE or RB early
We asked Jerry Jones what he thought about drafting another TE in the first round after having Peyton Hendershot and Jake Ferguson returning this year.
“The need for a guy to play traditional Y position, move in backfield and along line of scrimmage and do some heavy lifting.”
He also added can never have enough 6’4 250 lb guys.
Cowboys Stephen Jones also talked about quarterbacks being the reason people usually trade in the draft to make a big splash. Cowboys Jerry Jones hasn’t made a big “splash” in the draft in over a decade but he says it’s because so much time and effort goes into the decisions that most of the time that doesn’t happen but in the case that it does it’s usually for a quarterback.
“There is an instinctive feel about making a trade, and I would say the same things with you draft wise until you look with the experience you’ve had, and you look over there and you take those four threes for that one, three threes for that one, and you also remember what’s left in the third round compared to what you’ve given up in the first round, and you get hand cramps and lockjaw and don’t do it,” Jerry Jones said. “So, my point is the experience of that will be all that you weigh.”
Circumstance has also played a role. As was the case with CeeDee Lamb in 2020, the splash came their way. Micah Parsons was also not a top-10 pick in 2021, and the same was true for last year’s stellar rookie, Tyler Smith.
