tyke1doe
Well-Known Member
- Messages
- 53,664
- Reaction score
- 32,040
Dallas did not have a #1 that year. They lost it picking Steve Walsh in the 1989 supplemental draft. The 21st pick, which they traded (with a 3rd rounder) to the Steelers for their 17th, indeed was a pick they got from the Vikings Hershel Walker trade. Their own pick in the 1990 draft would have been first overall so kinda hard to move up with that one.
You are correct that it wasn't the slot of the Vikings pick, but it was the first rounder they got from the Hershel Walker trade used to move up. Unless of course I am not understanding your post (highly possible).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herschel_Walker_trade
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_NFL_Draft
- Used as part of a deal with the Pittsburgh Steelers to move up from #21 to #17 overall in the first round in 1990
- #17 overall was then used to select RB Emmitt Smith
"The Dallas Cowboys would have had the #1 overall pick in the draft for the second consecutive year by virtue of their league-worst 1–15 record in 1989. However, the Cowboys forfeited their first-round pick by selecting quarterback Steve Walsh in the first round of the previous year's supplemental draft."
"21 Pittsburgh Steelers(from Minnesota Vikings via Dallas Cowboys)"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmitt_Smith
I wish I would have read your post first. It would have saved me the trouble.