Just some additional information. If you were to look at a team's top 4 draft picks each season as the franchise's most valued currency in building a team, it is pretty interesting how the Cowboys have spent theirs over the past nine seasons.
At HB, the Cowboys have spent a first, a second, a third and two fourths at filling the position.
At WR, if you factor in Roy Williams, the Cowboys have spent two firsts, a third and two fourths.
At TE, the Cowboys have spent two seconds and a third.
Now compare that to the interior line. Over the last nine seasons, the Cowboys have spent one third and one fourth at OG and one second, all the way back in 2003, at C. A total of one third, one fourth and one second in filling three positions that are on the field almost the entire time the team is on offense. A lot of snaps.
Jumping over to defense, the Cowboys have already spent three number ones and a fourth on OLB in only the last 7 years. This is similar, as some have pointed out, to when the Cowboys spent four top draft picks over the course of six years chasing DEs (Carver, Pittman, Ellis, Ekuban).
On the defensive line, the Cowboys have spent one first, one third and one fourth. This includes zero nose tackles.
Don't know what all of it means, necessarily, but I found it interesting. This doesn't measure which picks worked and which picks did not, but it looks at where the team invested their most valued picks.
