I used to think like that way back, but then after researching draft after draft, mostly for arguments' sake, the facts just say otherwise. The truth of the matter is that the draft is truly a crapshoot no matter where you pick. Sure, there are better odds of landing a productive player the earlier you pick, but it's not just landing the player, it's developing him properly and having a little luck on the side that says you landed the right person. I wish I could say that if we had the 11th pick, we're guaranteed a DeMarcus Ware every time ( not just in terms of talent, but of character ), but that's just not the case. By the time the 3rd round comes along, 64 players have been drafted. If you're picking in the middle of the 3rd, now we're talking into the 80's.. That means that whomever a team is selecting in that round, most of the time, he's just as good as what they already have on the roster, but because of salary reasons, or injury reasons, or even trivial reasons such as " might as well keep the pick to make us look better PR wise " the team keeps the drafted player.
The Cowboys have a young, talented, way underachieving roster. Alot of people, including in the media, don't want to see it, instead taking the easy way out which is: " cut everybody because they haven't produced ", but it is still a talented roster. What that means is that whomever they draft in the 3rd round, there's a great chance that player not have any impact on the roster. We should consider it a good choice just if that player makes the active 45, or whatever they come up with in the next CBA. However, we should be prepare for the fact that there's a good chance we're just going to be drafting the next Robert Brewster, or Williams, or Marteen.. The odds are stacked against us, just like they're stacked against everybody else.
It's not easy coming up with players like Doug Free, or Marion Barber, and even harder: Jason Witten.