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Phillips: Why The Senior Bowl Has Been Good To The Cowboys For Decades
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 5:11 PM CST
By Rob Phillips
@robphillips3
http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/2016/01/19/phillips-why-senior-bowl-has-been-good-cowboys-decades
IRVING, Texas – This time next week, the Cowboys’ coaching staff will conduct their first day of Senior Bowl practice with the North team in Mobile, Ala. They’ll learn the roster when it’s announced this Friday.
The Senior Bowl is the first major benchmark in the league’s pre-draft-palooza, followed by the NFL Scouting Combine in February. Each year, Cowboys scouts and officials head to Mobile for a closer look at many of the top senior prospects in the upcoming draft.
This year presents a unique opportunity for head coach Jason Garrett. Instead of watching from the Ladd-Peebles Stadium bleachers, he and his staff will spend the week directing practices and meetings and coaching the Jan. 30 invitational all-star game.
Underclassmen have begun to dominate the early rounds of the draft in recent years. Eighteen were selected in the first round last year -- the record is 19 in 2012. This year, the unofficial early entries list has swelled past 100, which would break the 2013 record of 98. (The league will announce the official list on Friday.)
Yet the Senior Bowl – as its name indicates, a game featuring solely upperclassmen – has remained a valuable evaluation tool for the Cowboys in the early, middle and late rounds...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 5:11 PM CST
By Rob Phillips
@robphillips3
http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/2016/01/19/phillips-why-senior-bowl-has-been-good-cowboys-decades
IRVING, Texas – This time next week, the Cowboys’ coaching staff will conduct their first day of Senior Bowl practice with the North team in Mobile, Ala. They’ll learn the roster when it’s announced this Friday.
The Senior Bowl is the first major benchmark in the league’s pre-draft-palooza, followed by the NFL Scouting Combine in February. Each year, Cowboys scouts and officials head to Mobile for a closer look at many of the top senior prospects in the upcoming draft.
This year presents a unique opportunity for head coach Jason Garrett. Instead of watching from the Ladd-Peebles Stadium bleachers, he and his staff will spend the week directing practices and meetings and coaching the Jan. 30 invitational all-star game.
Underclassmen have begun to dominate the early rounds of the draft in recent years. Eighteen were selected in the first round last year -- the record is 19 in 2012. This year, the unofficial early entries list has swelled past 100, which would break the 2013 record of 98. (The league will announce the official list on Friday.)
Yet the Senior Bowl – as its name indicates, a game featuring solely upperclassmen – has remained a valuable evaluation tool for the Cowboys in the early, middle and late rounds...
