“We have some veteran players. We have some position flex,” Garrett said. “Now you start putting the piece of the puzzle together and now you say, ‘Ok. We see this guy as this. Pure evaluation. This is how he would fit into our team. This is the role he would play. This is how we would move the pieces around.’ So you have all those discussions, very thorough discussions. I think the flexibility and the versatility of those guys on the defensive front allows us to make a decision like this.”
Tyrone Crawford has experience playing at both end and tackle, as do
Jack Crawford and
David Irving. The front office also signed restricted free agent
Benson Mayowa to give them an extra edge rusher. As Stephen Jones pointed out, they’ve gotten by in recent seasons with effort from the likes of Jeremy Mincey and George Selvie.
“Obviously we had a good year two years ago with Mincey and Selvie, who you maybe might not put at the top of right ends in the world, but you can certainly get by. And you can hold the fort,” he said.
None of this is to say the Cowboys are done adding talent. They have six more picks to make before the weekend is out. But in the event that those picks don’t help the pass rush, they sound confident they can get by.
