Let's define team needs

[Aven8]

This team for a long time has been missing that alpha MLB. That’s what this team needs first and foremost

 

[Hawkeye0202]

Agree with cnuball21........starting
MLBer
CB
Edge

 

[Gambit]

There will be at least 4 really good safeties available at 92 and possibly even at 112.

Id take Zakee Wheatley at 92 and be happy

 

[Verdict]

Id take Zakee Wheatley at 92 and be happy

Yes. I would too. His range where he is being mocked has varied a bit and he seems to be rising.

 

[xwalker]

I have been doing lots of mock drafts just for fun. That doesn’t make me a GM, but it did make me consider exactly what the team needs are and how I might go about fixing them, and how Dallas might look at the situation from a different standpoint than I do.

I think we can all agree that the defensive team needs are probably: linebackers (generally-inside and outside/edge) and probably DT next.

It seems to me that there are a LOT of linebackers in this class that could really help us even until later in the draft (5th or 6th round) provided that they are not the first linebacker taken that late and that they are not primarily edge rushers.

On the edge rusher front there seem to be less than 10 (maybe less than 7) that would satisfactorily function as our first edge rusher taken.

DT seems to be shallower than the linebacker class, BUT much deeper than the contributing edge class. Running mocks it seems like the contributing edge class runs out before the end of the second round.

Let’s say that Dallas takes an edge at 12 or 20 or in a trade back) (Bain, Mesidore, Howell, Thomas). I am assuming in this defense that’s an outside linebacker/edges/3rd down edge in pass rushing situations) and would “count” generally as a linebacker in this system.

If you were in Dallas shoes, in a trade back scenario, would you double dip and take a second edge rusher (or even a third if Bain somehow fell to 12) over the first true off ball linebacker that you took off the board (Hill, Rodrigues, Golday, Trotter.

Second scenario. Looks in a trade down scenario that Dallas may be given a choice between a falling top tier DT, edge or off ball linebacker at around #40 in a trade back scenario. Which one are you taking?

I only have 1 Off-Ball LB in this draft rated as a 1st round pick...Styles...and his question mark on instincts scares me.

I would trade for a veteran Off-Ball LB if possible. Maybe give up a 2027 3rd round pick...

Then draft an Off-Ball LB after the 1st round in this year's draft.

 

[exciter]

Agree with cnuball21........starting
MLBer
CB
Edge

So no comp picks next season eh!