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1995
No. Player Pos. School
1 No choice: Traded to Tampa Bay for two 2nd-round choices
2a Sherman Williams RB Alabama --- backup type as your #1 player.
2b Kendell Watkins TE Mississippi State --- very good blocker. not a good player for that offense.
2c Shane Hannah G Michigan State
3 Charlie Williams S Bowling Green
4a Eric Bjornson TE Washington --- pretty decent TE who injuries Koed.
4b No choice: Traded to St. Louis for 1994 6th-round choice
4c Alundis Brice CB Mississippi
4d Linc Harden LB Oklahoma State
5a No choice: Used to select John Davis in the 1994 Supplemental Draft
5b Edward Hervey WR Southern California
5c Dana Howard LB Illinois
6 No choice: Traded to Chicago with Vinson Smith and Barry Minter for Kelly Blackwell, Markus Paul and John Roper
7 Oscar Sturgis DE North Carolina
likely yeild: tail end 1st, 2nd, 3rd, + should yeild 1 solid starter, and 1 or two solid backups.
Yeild: 1 average starter (bjornson), 1 spot HB (williams).
Rick Gosselin Grade: D
My thoughts: Jerry blew this draft with his strategy and his ego. He thought that he had a superbowl team and that he didn't need starters, just depth. That is a horrid draft strategy. You look at williams---he was speed back to compliment emmitt. Watkins was a blocker designed for spot play. Hannah went probably a round too early, but wasn't a bad gamble. He had the talent, but in retrospect, not the game. If Jerry had stayed in the first he probably would have been able to land a solid starter, but his ego told him outdrafting the competition would be easy.
1996
No. Player Pos. School
1 No choice: Traded to Washington for 2nd- and 3rd-round choices
2a Kavika Pittman DE McNeese State --- I never liked the guy because I don't much care for DEs who cannot rush the passer, but he started for 7 years in the NFL. That is not really a bust for a 2nd rounder, but was he really that much of an upgrade over Carver? If not, what was the point?
2b Randall Godfrey LB Georgia --- with 10 1/2 starting seasons in the NFL, this was clearly Dallas's best pick of the draft.
2c No choice: Traded to Miami along with 4th-round choice obtained from N.Y. Giants as compensation for signing of Ron Stone for 2nd-round choice
3a Clay Shiver C Florida State
3b No choice: Used to select Darren Benson in the 1995 Supplemental Draft
3c Stepfret Williams WR Northeast Louisiana
3c Mike Ulufale DL Brigham Young
4 No choice: Traded to Atlanta along with 5th-round choice for Roger Harper
5a Kenneth McDaniel G Norfolk State
5b No choice: No choice: Traded to Atlanta along with 4th-round choice for Roger Harper
5c Alan Campos LB Louisville
6a No choice: Traded to Chicago for Jim Schwantz
6b Wendell Davis CB Oklahoma
7 Ryan Wood FB Arizona State
likely yeild: tail end 1st, 2nd, 3rd, + should yeild 1 solid starter, and 1 or two solid backups.
Yeild: 1 good starter (Godfrey), 1 average starter (Pittman), two spot players of some skill in williams and Davis.
Rick Gosselin Grade: C
My thoughts: Again, Jerry sabotages himself by thinking he is smarter than the other GMs and again drafting to fill gaps rather than shooting for starter/stars. If you look at these guys, they weren't crappy players outright, but they were "project"y. Pittman was going to be a decent DE overall at worst, but had the attributes to develop as a passrusher. Godfrey was a hit or miss prospect. Turns out he was a very good player. The thought was Shiver might gain some weight and become another stepnoski. Stepfret williams had some moments in the league, but he was a 3rd receiver at best and went in the 3rd round. Wendell Davis was a nice 6th round pick, but again, every pick here is Jerry saying to the rest of the league, "I am smarter than you." Just way too much gambling. This was jerry trying to show it to the rest of the league. this was not a godawful draft, but could have been a strong draft with less time spent "outsmarting the league". Dallas loved Godfrey coming in. Staying put in the first and landing the best player there and then trading up in the second to land Godfrey would have been a much better strategy. It seems that Jerry was very addicted with the idea of turning 1 pick into multiple lower picks. That is fine if you have targets that will be there at a lower spot, but it isn't a good idea if not.
1997
No. Player Pos. School
1a David LaFleur TE LSU --- great talented prosect with some injury concerns that just destroyed his NFL career.
1b No choice: Traded to Philadelphia along with 5th-round choice and 3rd-round choice in 1998 for 1st-round choice
2 No choice: Traded to Detroit for 3rd- and 4th-round choices
3a Dexter Coakley LB Appalachian State --- Overrated IMO, but a Multiple pro bowl player and longtime borderline star.
3b Steve Scifres G/T Wyoming
3c Kenny Wheaton CB Oregon
4a Antonio Anderson DT Syracuse
4b No choice: Traded to Baltimore for 1996 5th-round choice
4c Macey Brooks WR James Madison
4d Nicky Sualua FB Ohio State
5 No choice: No choice: Traded to Philadelphia along with 1st-round choice and 3rd-round choice in 1998 for 1st-round choice
6 Lee Vaughn CB Wyoming
7 Omar Stoutmire S Fresno State --- a terrific find in the 7th.
likely yeild: tail end 1st, 2nd, 3rd, + should yeild 1 solid starter, and 1 or two solid backups.
Yeild: 2 solid starters (Coakley & Stoutmire), 1 average starter (Lafleur)
Rick Gosselin Grade: C
My thoughts: Troy Aikman insisted on the cowboys taking LaFleur. I think you can fault Jerry the owner for saddling Jerry the Draft Guy with having to listen to his QB, but I don't think you can fault Jerry the Draft Guy overly with that pick. Plus, LaFleur was a very good player, injuries just killed his NFL career. Now maybe you can argue that he should have been a health scrub for that early of a pick. Coakley was considered a little of a gamble ---possibly too light ---even for the cowboys 4-3. I think this is the last year where Jerry fools around with light OLs. I think drafts that are successful bring in players that fit the system. I think Jerry and the scouting staff clearly get what kind of LBs the team uses, but seem to have no idea what type of player the team needs at many other positions (notably OL, DL, CB, and TE). Perhaps they didn't have a feel for how to draft for the Chan Gailey sytem. If LaFleur had not gone down, this might have been a well regarded draft, even though I personally hate the strategy behind it. I think this is the last year where jerry feels like he has the luxury to blindly swing for the fence with each pick because his team is loaded.
1998
No. Player Pos. School
1 Greg Ellis DE North Carolina --- above average starting DE.
2 Flozell Adams T Michigan State --- Mediocre starting LT; occasional Pro Bowler due to fan voting.
3 No choice: Traded to Philadelphia along with 1st-round choice and 5th-round choice in 1997 for 1st-round choice in 1997
4 Michael Myers DL Alabama --- Good starting caliber DT.
5a Darren Hambrick LB South Carolina --- good starting caliber OLB, with 10 cent brain.
5b Oliver Ross OL Iowa State
6a No choice: Traded to Seattle along with 7th-round choice for 5th-round choice
6b Izell Reese S Alabama-Birmingham --- Occasional starting safety. Good Pro.
7a No choice: Traded to Seattle along with 6th-round choice for 5th-round choice
7b Tarik Smith RB California
7c Antonio Fleming G Georgia
7d Rod Monroe TE Cincinnati
Made active roster | Click on names in boldface for career statistics
Rick Gosselin Grade: C
likely yeild: mid 1st, 2nd, + should yeild 2 solid starters, and 1 backup.
Yeild: 1 above Average starter (Ellis), 1 average starter (Adams), 3 top backups who could start and be average starters (Reese, Hambrick, Myers)
Rick Gosselin Grade: C
My thoughts: TO me, this is where Jerry stopped trying to outsmart everyone and focused on bringing in guys who could play minutes now. To me it is no coincidence that this was by far his best draft. I know some may think this was the draft that we blew off Randy Moss, but I am OK with that. We blew off Randy Moss for a big (at the time) DE with great character and exceptional work ethic who has been a + starter from Day 1. If Ellis wasn't big or a plus character guy, I'd condemn it, but this is the kind of thinking I want to see more of from Jerry. He balances gambles vs. sure things well in this draft. To take the analogy a step further, he settles for making contact with each pick and getting on base.
1999
No. Player Pos. School
1a Ebenezer Ekuban DE North Carolina --- 8 season starter. competant.
1b No choice: Traded to Seattle along with 5th-round choice obtained from Carolina as compensation for the signing of Patrick Jeffers for 1st-round choice
2 Solomon Page OT West Virginia --- A soft left tackle after we drafted soft left tackle Flozell the year before. Miscast as a RT. Maybe his carreer would have gone differently if he played LT from day 1. A bust.
3 Dat Nguyen LB Texas A&M --- solid multi-year starter with modest talent.
4a Wane McGarity WR Texas --- had some flashes.
4b Peppi Zellner DE Fort Valley State --- 6 season backup.
5 No choice: Traded to Denver for past considerations
6 Martay Jenkins WR Nebraska-Omaha --- had a few decent years in the NFL.
7a Mike Lucky TE Arizona --- A pretty decent cheap backup in the 7th.
7b Kelvin Garmon G Baylor --- a very nice prospect to gamble on.
likely yeild: tail end 1st, 2nd, 3rd, + should yeild 1 solid starter, and 1 or two solid backups.
Yeild: 1 good starter (Nguyen), 1 average starter (Ekuban), 6 backup types (Page, McGarity, Zellner, Lucky, Jenkins, Garmon)
Rick Gosselin Grade: D
My thoughts: I think that the loss of the Jimmy Elite opened up spots for a number of guys to make the team. I think this is still a pretty solid draft as it has Jerry nabbing guys who would start with the first 3 picks. That had been a problem with Jerry previously. Really I can only look at Page and cringe, and really I fault Jerry for his mancrush on Flozell, seeing him as a big guy with the feet to play left tackle. If he had moved Flozell to RT and plunked Page in at Left I think both would have probably gone on to better careers and he would have been in much better shape when it came time to negotiate with Flozell. But that isn't Jerry the Draft Guy's fault. He did solidly in this draft.
2000
No. Player Pos. School
1 No selection: Traded to Seattle along with 1st-round choice in 2001 for Joey Galloway
2 Dwayne Goodrich DB Tennessee
3 No selection: Traded to Seattle for James McKnight
4 Kareem Larrimore DB West Texas A&M
5 Michael Wiley RB/WR Ohio State
6 Mario Edwards DB Florida State
7 Orantes Grant LB Georgia
likely yeild: middle 2nd + should yeild 1-2 solid backups.
Yeild: 1 average starter (Edwards), 1 backup type (Wiley)
Rick Gosselin Grade: C
My thoughts: Remember, the trade for Galloway & McKnight cost this team its #1 and #3. That meant this was going to be a bad draft class. That said, I don't have a huge problem with Jerry's CB gamble draft. This team was loaded with backup to weak starter depth. It had a glaring hole at CB. Goodrich and Edwards would have been first or second round picks if they had come out a year earlier. Those are not bad gambles. Larrimore had elite talent. again not a bad gamble in the fourth. Spending 3 picks on cbs with (argueably) 2nd round pedigrees gives you a pretty good shot that 1 of the three will hit and fill a CB spot. It did work in that regard. While Goodrich and Larrimore dumbed themselves out of the league, Edwards was IMO a pretty competant #2 CB in his time in Dallas. Wiley was a very good spot HB to land with a 5th.
2001
No. Player Pos. School
1 No selection: Traded to Seattle along with 1st-round choice in 2000 for Joey Galloway
2a Quincy Carter QB Georgia --- Did he develop the drug problem in Dallas or did he have on from the start? He did have talent, but couldn't harness it.
2b Tony Dixon DB Alabama --- I feel for this kid. A 3rd SS behind Roy Williams and Darren Woodson.
3a No selection: Traded to New Orleans along with 3rd-round choice obtained from Indianapolis for 2nd-round choice
3b Willie Blade DT Mississippi State
4a No selection: Traded to Atlanta along with 7th-round pick in 2002 for O.J. Santiago
4b Markus Steele LB Southern California
5 Matt Lehr C Virginia Tech --- very good backup.
6 Daleroy Stewart DT Southern Mississippi
7a Colston Weatherington DT Central Missouri State
7b John Nix DT Southern Mississippi
7c Char-ron Dorsey OT Florida State --- not a bad gamble at all.
likely yeild: 2 mid 2nds, 3rd + should yeild 1 starter, 1-2 backups.
Yeild: 1 good backup (Dixon), 1 backup type (Lehr)
Rick Gosselin Grade: D
My thoughts: 2 things killed this draft. 1) the galloway trade and 2) Jerry's love affair with QC/smoldering desire for a young QB. Without the team's first, this was going to likely be a pretty average draft at best. Jerry though he could beat the odds with QC. He knew that if it worked he'd have been his image as a draft bungler and if it didn't....well Jerry had a lot of emotion tied to making the QC thing work. And looking at it historically, it seems like he almost did. With lots of coaching, QC went from deer in the headlights who couldn't take a snap to swaggering confident leader with a great knack for making plays in one season. Then he stopped improving/listening? (boy that sounds familiar.) Was that the drugs? Was it the battle with Coslet? I haven't rated him in the draft review because I'd be just as right to call him an average starter as I would be to call him a bust. Dixon is one of the few cowboy draft picks I really feel sorry for. He was a lesser version of roy Williams --- similar as a player with the same knack for playmaking, but not as big and not as thunderous of a player. He could have been a very competant starting SS, but that would have required moving Woody to FS, which the team was not prepared to do. Then Roy williams comes in and the team decides he is of the caliber that makes moving Woody to the FS spot desireable. Dixon just gets lost in the cracks with the coaching change and in roy williams' shadow. I still think he was a good pick. The rest of this draft was pretty shaky, but considering the rounds, that is to be expected. Lehr was a good backup. Dorsey was a very nice gamble. Everyone else I see as making the team as an extended tryout.
2002
No. Player Pos. School
1a No selection: Traded to Kansas City for 1st- and 3rd-round choices in 2002 and 6th-round choice in 2003
1b Roy Williams S Oklahoma --- Overrated, but when used properly can play up to his rep for small bursts.
2a Andre Gurode G Colorado --- A very well thought of player who finally found a coach who could get him to play.
2b Antonio Bryant WR Pittsburgh --- A starter who should be better than he is.
3a No selection: Traded to Chicago along with 4th- and 5th-round choices for 2nd- and 4th-round choices
3b Derek Ross CB Ohio State
4a No selection: Traded to Chicago along with 3rd- and 5th-round choices for 2nd- and 4th-round choices
4b Jamar Martin RB Ohio State --- decent blocking FB
5a No selection: Traded to Chicago along with 4th- and 5th-round choices for 2nd- and 4th-round choices
5b Pete Hunter CB Virginia Union --- a top talent who bounced between positions. may still have some days in the NFL
6a Tyson Walter OT Ohio State --- Good backup.
6b DeVeren Johnson WR Sacred Heart
6c Bob Slowikowski TE Virginia Tech
7 No selection: Traded to Atlanta along with 4th-round choice in 2001 for O.J. Santiago
likely yeild: early 1st, early and mid 2nd, early 3rd + should yeild 2 good starters, 1-2 backups.
Yeild: 2 good starters (Williams & Gurode), average starter (Bryant), 3 backup types (Martin, Hunter, Walter)
Rick Gosselin Grade: B
My thoughts: I'll make no secret of it. I was firmly in the camp of picking Texas CB Quentin Jammer. I am still not convinced that I was wrong in that as it potentially would have given dallas a secondary of Jammer, Woodson, Dixon, and Edwards, but that is of course assuming they would move woody to start Dixon. (probably not.) Anyhoo, Williams has been great attacking the ball, awful in coverage, but a plus player overall. This was a great draft for talent, but the team really didn't devlop or utilize the talent very well. This draft was all jerry and shows how much improvement he had made in his draft philosophy since Jimmy left.
I'm going to finish this post later. Girlfriend is lighting things on fire.
I do want to leave you with the idea that once Jerry stopped swinging for the fences on every pick (first 3 years) he started having pretty solid drafts. Now can Jerry the GM keep those guys on a team and retain good coaches who can develop them? Dunno.
No. Player Pos. School
1 No choice: Traded to Tampa Bay for two 2nd-round choices
2a Sherman Williams RB Alabama --- backup type as your #1 player.
2b Kendell Watkins TE Mississippi State --- very good blocker. not a good player for that offense.
2c Shane Hannah G Michigan State
3 Charlie Williams S Bowling Green
4a Eric Bjornson TE Washington --- pretty decent TE who injuries Koed.
4b No choice: Traded to St. Louis for 1994 6th-round choice
4c Alundis Brice CB Mississippi
4d Linc Harden LB Oklahoma State
5a No choice: Used to select John Davis in the 1994 Supplemental Draft
5b Edward Hervey WR Southern California
5c Dana Howard LB Illinois
6 No choice: Traded to Chicago with Vinson Smith and Barry Minter for Kelly Blackwell, Markus Paul and John Roper
7 Oscar Sturgis DE North Carolina
likely yeild: tail end 1st, 2nd, 3rd, + should yeild 1 solid starter, and 1 or two solid backups.
Yeild: 1 average starter (bjornson), 1 spot HB (williams).
Rick Gosselin Grade: D
My thoughts: Jerry blew this draft with his strategy and his ego. He thought that he had a superbowl team and that he didn't need starters, just depth. That is a horrid draft strategy. You look at williams---he was speed back to compliment emmitt. Watkins was a blocker designed for spot play. Hannah went probably a round too early, but wasn't a bad gamble. He had the talent, but in retrospect, not the game. If Jerry had stayed in the first he probably would have been able to land a solid starter, but his ego told him outdrafting the competition would be easy.
1996
No. Player Pos. School
1 No choice: Traded to Washington for 2nd- and 3rd-round choices
2a Kavika Pittman DE McNeese State --- I never liked the guy because I don't much care for DEs who cannot rush the passer, but he started for 7 years in the NFL. That is not really a bust for a 2nd rounder, but was he really that much of an upgrade over Carver? If not, what was the point?
2b Randall Godfrey LB Georgia --- with 10 1/2 starting seasons in the NFL, this was clearly Dallas's best pick of the draft.
2c No choice: Traded to Miami along with 4th-round choice obtained from N.Y. Giants as compensation for signing of Ron Stone for 2nd-round choice
3a Clay Shiver C Florida State
3b No choice: Used to select Darren Benson in the 1995 Supplemental Draft
3c Stepfret Williams WR Northeast Louisiana
3c Mike Ulufale DL Brigham Young
4 No choice: Traded to Atlanta along with 5th-round choice for Roger Harper
5a Kenneth McDaniel G Norfolk State
5b No choice: No choice: Traded to Atlanta along with 4th-round choice for Roger Harper
5c Alan Campos LB Louisville
6a No choice: Traded to Chicago for Jim Schwantz
6b Wendell Davis CB Oklahoma
7 Ryan Wood FB Arizona State
likely yeild: tail end 1st, 2nd, 3rd, + should yeild 1 solid starter, and 1 or two solid backups.
Yeild: 1 good starter (Godfrey), 1 average starter (Pittman), two spot players of some skill in williams and Davis.
Rick Gosselin Grade: C
My thoughts: Again, Jerry sabotages himself by thinking he is smarter than the other GMs and again drafting to fill gaps rather than shooting for starter/stars. If you look at these guys, they weren't crappy players outright, but they were "project"y. Pittman was going to be a decent DE overall at worst, but had the attributes to develop as a passrusher. Godfrey was a hit or miss prospect. Turns out he was a very good player. The thought was Shiver might gain some weight and become another stepnoski. Stepfret williams had some moments in the league, but he was a 3rd receiver at best and went in the 3rd round. Wendell Davis was a nice 6th round pick, but again, every pick here is Jerry saying to the rest of the league, "I am smarter than you." Just way too much gambling. This was jerry trying to show it to the rest of the league. this was not a godawful draft, but could have been a strong draft with less time spent "outsmarting the league". Dallas loved Godfrey coming in. Staying put in the first and landing the best player there and then trading up in the second to land Godfrey would have been a much better strategy. It seems that Jerry was very addicted with the idea of turning 1 pick into multiple lower picks. That is fine if you have targets that will be there at a lower spot, but it isn't a good idea if not.
1997
No. Player Pos. School
1a David LaFleur TE LSU --- great talented prosect with some injury concerns that just destroyed his NFL career.
1b No choice: Traded to Philadelphia along with 5th-round choice and 3rd-round choice in 1998 for 1st-round choice
2 No choice: Traded to Detroit for 3rd- and 4th-round choices
3a Dexter Coakley LB Appalachian State --- Overrated IMO, but a Multiple pro bowl player and longtime borderline star.
3b Steve Scifres G/T Wyoming
3c Kenny Wheaton CB Oregon
4a Antonio Anderson DT Syracuse
4b No choice: Traded to Baltimore for 1996 5th-round choice
4c Macey Brooks WR James Madison
4d Nicky Sualua FB Ohio State
5 No choice: No choice: Traded to Philadelphia along with 1st-round choice and 3rd-round choice in 1998 for 1st-round choice
6 Lee Vaughn CB Wyoming
7 Omar Stoutmire S Fresno State --- a terrific find in the 7th.
likely yeild: tail end 1st, 2nd, 3rd, + should yeild 1 solid starter, and 1 or two solid backups.
Yeild: 2 solid starters (Coakley & Stoutmire), 1 average starter (Lafleur)
Rick Gosselin Grade: C
My thoughts: Troy Aikman insisted on the cowboys taking LaFleur. I think you can fault Jerry the owner for saddling Jerry the Draft Guy with having to listen to his QB, but I don't think you can fault Jerry the Draft Guy overly with that pick. Plus, LaFleur was a very good player, injuries just killed his NFL career. Now maybe you can argue that he should have been a health scrub for that early of a pick. Coakley was considered a little of a gamble ---possibly too light ---even for the cowboys 4-3. I think this is the last year where Jerry fools around with light OLs. I think drafts that are successful bring in players that fit the system. I think Jerry and the scouting staff clearly get what kind of LBs the team uses, but seem to have no idea what type of player the team needs at many other positions (notably OL, DL, CB, and TE). Perhaps they didn't have a feel for how to draft for the Chan Gailey sytem. If LaFleur had not gone down, this might have been a well regarded draft, even though I personally hate the strategy behind it. I think this is the last year where jerry feels like he has the luxury to blindly swing for the fence with each pick because his team is loaded.
1998
No. Player Pos. School
1 Greg Ellis DE North Carolina --- above average starting DE.
2 Flozell Adams T Michigan State --- Mediocre starting LT; occasional Pro Bowler due to fan voting.
3 No choice: Traded to Philadelphia along with 1st-round choice and 5th-round choice in 1997 for 1st-round choice in 1997
4 Michael Myers DL Alabama --- Good starting caliber DT.
5a Darren Hambrick LB South Carolina --- good starting caliber OLB, with 10 cent brain.
5b Oliver Ross OL Iowa State
6a No choice: Traded to Seattle along with 7th-round choice for 5th-round choice
6b Izell Reese S Alabama-Birmingham --- Occasional starting safety. Good Pro.
7a No choice: Traded to Seattle along with 6th-round choice for 5th-round choice
7b Tarik Smith RB California
7c Antonio Fleming G Georgia
7d Rod Monroe TE Cincinnati
Made active roster | Click on names in boldface for career statistics
Rick Gosselin Grade: C
likely yeild: mid 1st, 2nd, + should yeild 2 solid starters, and 1 backup.
Yeild: 1 above Average starter (Ellis), 1 average starter (Adams), 3 top backups who could start and be average starters (Reese, Hambrick, Myers)
Rick Gosselin Grade: C
My thoughts: TO me, this is where Jerry stopped trying to outsmart everyone and focused on bringing in guys who could play minutes now. To me it is no coincidence that this was by far his best draft. I know some may think this was the draft that we blew off Randy Moss, but I am OK with that. We blew off Randy Moss for a big (at the time) DE with great character and exceptional work ethic who has been a + starter from Day 1. If Ellis wasn't big or a plus character guy, I'd condemn it, but this is the kind of thinking I want to see more of from Jerry. He balances gambles vs. sure things well in this draft. To take the analogy a step further, he settles for making contact with each pick and getting on base.
1999
No. Player Pos. School
1a Ebenezer Ekuban DE North Carolina --- 8 season starter. competant.
1b No choice: Traded to Seattle along with 5th-round choice obtained from Carolina as compensation for the signing of Patrick Jeffers for 1st-round choice
2 Solomon Page OT West Virginia --- A soft left tackle after we drafted soft left tackle Flozell the year before. Miscast as a RT. Maybe his carreer would have gone differently if he played LT from day 1. A bust.
3 Dat Nguyen LB Texas A&M --- solid multi-year starter with modest talent.
4a Wane McGarity WR Texas --- had some flashes.
4b Peppi Zellner DE Fort Valley State --- 6 season backup.
5 No choice: Traded to Denver for past considerations
6 Martay Jenkins WR Nebraska-Omaha --- had a few decent years in the NFL.
7a Mike Lucky TE Arizona --- A pretty decent cheap backup in the 7th.
7b Kelvin Garmon G Baylor --- a very nice prospect to gamble on.
likely yeild: tail end 1st, 2nd, 3rd, + should yeild 1 solid starter, and 1 or two solid backups.
Yeild: 1 good starter (Nguyen), 1 average starter (Ekuban), 6 backup types (Page, McGarity, Zellner, Lucky, Jenkins, Garmon)
Rick Gosselin Grade: D
My thoughts: I think that the loss of the Jimmy Elite opened up spots for a number of guys to make the team. I think this is still a pretty solid draft as it has Jerry nabbing guys who would start with the first 3 picks. That had been a problem with Jerry previously. Really I can only look at Page and cringe, and really I fault Jerry for his mancrush on Flozell, seeing him as a big guy with the feet to play left tackle. If he had moved Flozell to RT and plunked Page in at Left I think both would have probably gone on to better careers and he would have been in much better shape when it came time to negotiate with Flozell. But that isn't Jerry the Draft Guy's fault. He did solidly in this draft.
2000
No. Player Pos. School
1 No selection: Traded to Seattle along with 1st-round choice in 2001 for Joey Galloway
2 Dwayne Goodrich DB Tennessee
3 No selection: Traded to Seattle for James McKnight
4 Kareem Larrimore DB West Texas A&M
5 Michael Wiley RB/WR Ohio State
6 Mario Edwards DB Florida State
7 Orantes Grant LB Georgia
likely yeild: middle 2nd + should yeild 1-2 solid backups.
Yeild: 1 average starter (Edwards), 1 backup type (Wiley)
Rick Gosselin Grade: C
My thoughts: Remember, the trade for Galloway & McKnight cost this team its #1 and #3. That meant this was going to be a bad draft class. That said, I don't have a huge problem with Jerry's CB gamble draft. This team was loaded with backup to weak starter depth. It had a glaring hole at CB. Goodrich and Edwards would have been first or second round picks if they had come out a year earlier. Those are not bad gambles. Larrimore had elite talent. again not a bad gamble in the fourth. Spending 3 picks on cbs with (argueably) 2nd round pedigrees gives you a pretty good shot that 1 of the three will hit and fill a CB spot. It did work in that regard. While Goodrich and Larrimore dumbed themselves out of the league, Edwards was IMO a pretty competant #2 CB in his time in Dallas. Wiley was a very good spot HB to land with a 5th.
2001
No. Player Pos. School
1 No selection: Traded to Seattle along with 1st-round choice in 2000 for Joey Galloway
2a Quincy Carter QB Georgia --- Did he develop the drug problem in Dallas or did he have on from the start? He did have talent, but couldn't harness it.
2b Tony Dixon DB Alabama --- I feel for this kid. A 3rd SS behind Roy Williams and Darren Woodson.
3a No selection: Traded to New Orleans along with 3rd-round choice obtained from Indianapolis for 2nd-round choice
3b Willie Blade DT Mississippi State
4a No selection: Traded to Atlanta along with 7th-round pick in 2002 for O.J. Santiago
4b Markus Steele LB Southern California
5 Matt Lehr C Virginia Tech --- very good backup.
6 Daleroy Stewart DT Southern Mississippi
7a Colston Weatherington DT Central Missouri State
7b John Nix DT Southern Mississippi
7c Char-ron Dorsey OT Florida State --- not a bad gamble at all.
likely yeild: 2 mid 2nds, 3rd + should yeild 1 starter, 1-2 backups.
Yeild: 1 good backup (Dixon), 1 backup type (Lehr)
Rick Gosselin Grade: D
My thoughts: 2 things killed this draft. 1) the galloway trade and 2) Jerry's love affair with QC/smoldering desire for a young QB. Without the team's first, this was going to likely be a pretty average draft at best. Jerry though he could beat the odds with QC. He knew that if it worked he'd have been his image as a draft bungler and if it didn't....well Jerry had a lot of emotion tied to making the QC thing work. And looking at it historically, it seems like he almost did. With lots of coaching, QC went from deer in the headlights who couldn't take a snap to swaggering confident leader with a great knack for making plays in one season. Then he stopped improving/listening? (boy that sounds familiar.) Was that the drugs? Was it the battle with Coslet? I haven't rated him in the draft review because I'd be just as right to call him an average starter as I would be to call him a bust. Dixon is one of the few cowboy draft picks I really feel sorry for. He was a lesser version of roy Williams --- similar as a player with the same knack for playmaking, but not as big and not as thunderous of a player. He could have been a very competant starting SS, but that would have required moving Woody to FS, which the team was not prepared to do. Then Roy williams comes in and the team decides he is of the caliber that makes moving Woody to the FS spot desireable. Dixon just gets lost in the cracks with the coaching change and in roy williams' shadow. I still think he was a good pick. The rest of this draft was pretty shaky, but considering the rounds, that is to be expected. Lehr was a good backup. Dorsey was a very nice gamble. Everyone else I see as making the team as an extended tryout.
2002
No. Player Pos. School
1a No selection: Traded to Kansas City for 1st- and 3rd-round choices in 2002 and 6th-round choice in 2003
1b Roy Williams S Oklahoma --- Overrated, but when used properly can play up to his rep for small bursts.
2a Andre Gurode G Colorado --- A very well thought of player who finally found a coach who could get him to play.
2b Antonio Bryant WR Pittsburgh --- A starter who should be better than he is.
3a No selection: Traded to Chicago along with 4th- and 5th-round choices for 2nd- and 4th-round choices
3b Derek Ross CB Ohio State
4a No selection: Traded to Chicago along with 3rd- and 5th-round choices for 2nd- and 4th-round choices
4b Jamar Martin RB Ohio State --- decent blocking FB
5a No selection: Traded to Chicago along with 4th- and 5th-round choices for 2nd- and 4th-round choices
5b Pete Hunter CB Virginia Union --- a top talent who bounced between positions. may still have some days in the NFL
6a Tyson Walter OT Ohio State --- Good backup.
6b DeVeren Johnson WR Sacred Heart
6c Bob Slowikowski TE Virginia Tech
7 No selection: Traded to Atlanta along with 4th-round choice in 2001 for O.J. Santiago
likely yeild: early 1st, early and mid 2nd, early 3rd + should yeild 2 good starters, 1-2 backups.
Yeild: 2 good starters (Williams & Gurode), average starter (Bryant), 3 backup types (Martin, Hunter, Walter)
Rick Gosselin Grade: B
My thoughts: I'll make no secret of it. I was firmly in the camp of picking Texas CB Quentin Jammer. I am still not convinced that I was wrong in that as it potentially would have given dallas a secondary of Jammer, Woodson, Dixon, and Edwards, but that is of course assuming they would move woody to start Dixon. (probably not.) Anyhoo, Williams has been great attacking the ball, awful in coverage, but a plus player overall. This was a great draft for talent, but the team really didn't devlop or utilize the talent very well. This draft was all jerry and shows how much improvement he had made in his draft philosophy since Jimmy left.
I'm going to finish this post later. Girlfriend is lighting things on fire.
I do want to leave you with the idea that once Jerry stopped swinging for the fences on every pick (first 3 years) he started having pretty solid drafts. Now can Jerry the GM keep those guys on a team and retain good coaches who can develop them? Dunno.
..i had to do it. 
