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Everybody seems to have an opinion about what the Dallas Cowboys should do with the No. 4 pick in the 2016 NFL draft later this month.
But nobody really can predict with any degree of certainty what Dallas will do because the Cowboys have so many needs ... and so many options.
Draft a quarterback, pick a defensive end, select a defensive back, choose a running back, go after a receiver or trade down. You could make a case for any of these six options.
And that's what ESPN writer Bill Barnwell did.
Here's his assessment of each scenario.
Draft Tony Romo's eventual replacement
Barnwell: The cost of using a top-five draft pick on a player who might play only a few games per year is very high given Dallas' needs elsewhere. Given that the fourth pick will have a cap hit in excess of $5 million per year over the next four seasons, if the Cowboys really wanted a viable backup that badly, they could have signed somebody like Colt McCoy to a similar deal in free agency. Even if the Cowboys did take a quarterback, the reality is that Romo's not going anywhere for a while: his contract is unmoveable, either via trade, release, or retirement. Thanks to past contractual missteps and desperate maneuverings to clear out cap space, the Cowboys have needed to restructure Romo's deal twice to convert his base salary into signing bonuses, pushing the cap hit for those deals into the future. That leaves Romo with massive cap hits on the Dallas roster, regardless of whether the Cowboys keep him or get rid of him.
link/http://sportsday.***BANNED-URL***/d...mines-6-draft-options-cowboys-likely-scenario
But nobody really can predict with any degree of certainty what Dallas will do because the Cowboys have so many needs ... and so many options.
Draft a quarterback, pick a defensive end, select a defensive back, choose a running back, go after a receiver or trade down. You could make a case for any of these six options.
And that's what ESPN writer Bill Barnwell did.
Here's his assessment of each scenario.
Draft Tony Romo's eventual replacement
Barnwell: The cost of using a top-five draft pick on a player who might play only a few games per year is very high given Dallas' needs elsewhere. Given that the fourth pick will have a cap hit in excess of $5 million per year over the next four seasons, if the Cowboys really wanted a viable backup that badly, they could have signed somebody like Colt McCoy to a similar deal in free agency. Even if the Cowboys did take a quarterback, the reality is that Romo's not going anywhere for a while: his contract is unmoveable, either via trade, release, or retirement. Thanks to past contractual missteps and desperate maneuverings to clear out cap space, the Cowboys have needed to restructure Romo's deal twice to convert his base salary into signing bonuses, pushing the cap hit for those deals into the future. That leaves Romo with massive cap hits on the Dallas roster, regardless of whether the Cowboys keep him or get rid of him.
link/http://sportsday.***BANNED-URL***/d...mines-6-draft-options-cowboys-likely-scenario
