The Argument For Drafting a QB With the 10 Pick

[Vinnie2u]

According to the best player available crowd. You take the QB or RB or WR or TE or long snapper or punter or kicker if they are the best player on the board.

 

[Havic]

with the 10th pick....no. its very likely 4 qb's will already be off the board by the time the Cowboys pick at 10. That is terrible value taking what is considered to be the 5th best qb in the draft, especially when you have already given your own a massive contract. The best value here will be O-line or Pitts.

 

[Techsass]

Yes you need a backup QB, but you don't waste resources on one. A backup QB is really only hired to pop on the field for a series or 2 while the real QB gets a chance to recover. If the real QB is out for a few weeks, nobody expects a backup to win the majority of those games.

Last season we had about the best backup QB available & we're picking at the #10 spot.

 

[Rockport]

That almost sounds reasonable except that QB injuries, just like the rest of the team injuries, are prevalent. One of the Cowboys constant problems is lack of depth for injured starters. We need a good backup/starter to replace Dak. And yeah, why did we spend all that money on Dak?

So you want to draft a backup at #10.

 

[9darter]

When I want your opinion, I’ll beat it oughta you.

There's no need for his opinions, so just move on to the second part of your statement.

 

[Risen Star]

Here's my argument. The one you have now sucks.

 

[Risen Star]

Dak's deal was for 4-years 160 million. You want to add a top ten QB deal to that too? Maybe you want to move up to do this too? lol.

The Cowboys and Prescott agreed Monday to a four-year, $160 million extension, two people with knowledge of the contract told USA TODAY Sports. The people spoke on condition of anonymity since the team doesn’t publicly disclose terms. Prescott is guaranteed $126 million, including an NFL-record $66 million signing bonus. In total, he’ll net $75 million in 2021 – more than double his collective salary across his first five professional seasons.

Here's some of their recent salaries:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtba...ua-and-chase-young-will-make/?sh=53db8a785be3

PICK TEAM PLAYER TOTAL CONTRACT SIGNING BONUS
1 Bengals Joe Burrow $36.0 million $23.9 million
2 Commanders Chase Young $34.6 million $22.7 million
3 Lions Jeff Okudah $33.5 million $21.9 million
4 Giants Andrew Thomas $32.3 million $21.1 million
5 Dolphins Tua Tagovailoa $30.3 million $19.6 million
6 Chargers Justin Herbert $26.6 million $16.9 million
7 Panthers Derrick Brown $23.6 million $14.7 million
8 Cardinals Isaiah Simmons $20.7 million $12.6 million
9 Jaguars CJ Henderson $20.5 million $12.5 million
10 Browns Jedrick Wills Jr. $19.7 million $11.9 million

You're not my friend anymore, Alan.

Even in America.

 

[Trajan]

Too many holes to draft a QB here. In a couple years, when it is clear this team has failed again, and we have a top 10 pick and The Dak & Zeke money is crippling the team, then we draft a new one and enjoy another decade of mediocrity.

 

[DandyDon52]

DOES HE ALSO KNOW DAK HAS NO TRADE CLAUSE NO TRADING

many dont know that or forget about it.

 

[charron]

There is no devils advocacy in regards to the cowboys drafting a QB in the 1st 3 rounds. None. Dak is now guaranteed to be here for 4 years, no trade, no way out of his contract, and no cutting him or letting him ride the bench is not going to happen. The only way Dak is not our starting QB the next 4 years would be due to injury. And we can not afford to draft a guy just to ride the bench when we could have drafted a starter at another position. It's not even debatable.

 

[Sandyf]

Although not a fan of drafting a QB at 10, you should always draft the best available in the first. When you don't or reach then you pay a heavy price years down the line. Will say though if a team wants to come up for a heavy price then you could have a decision to make.

If Pitts and Surtain are both gone, and say Sewell and say Fields are there and say Chargers are willing to part with 13, 47 and 2nd in 2022 for Sewell then you have to consider it. Or if Bears want Fields so bad they offer 20, 52, 83 and 1st in 2022, you really have to consider it.

Draft is tricky and 50 percent of them wash out after a year or two. Just look out at how many guys are around from 2017 or 2018.

 

[KB1122]

Bravo to the OP! You're on the right track. I've been making the case all off-season.

Basically, #1 reason is that a big handful of dynasties and near-dynasties start with quarterback competition, not quarterback "friendliness." Packers of the Sixties. Steelers and Cowboys of the Seventies. Niners of the Eighties and early Nineties. Cowboys of the Nineties. Patriots of this century.

#2 reason: You don't want to have to have another terrible season or trade massive draft capital to put yourself in that position again.

#3 A top 10 pick should be an institutional pick, not a situational one. You should want that guy to be a cornerstone for the next 10 to 15 years.

#4 You get your choice of quarterbacks and can probably get at least a first-rounder in a trade for the loser. This is especially true for the Cowboys this time around. So low downside and high upside.

#4 The reasons stated in the original post.

 

[KB1122]

they just signed dak to a franchise contract if u draft a player at 10 u are saying that he is your starting qb and ur franchise qb would tear the team apart

If Dak can't beat the competition, he doesn't need to be our quarterback.

 

[KB1122]

QBs are just so valuable that a promising but unknown prospect is going to pay off for you one way or another. Sam Darnold did as much busting as you can do in a few years with the Jets and NY still got 3 picks back. Make a guy like Lance look good in week 17 and you'll make a killing next offseason.

Don't entirely agree with you, but this is the key point.

 

[KB1122]

Dak's deal was for 4-years 160 million. You want to add a top ten QB deal to that too? Maybe you want to move up to do this too? lol.

That's funny. Because the Dak Pack told us before the contract that his salary would be a bargain once the salary cap increases. But now it's such an overwhelming amount of money that we can't bring in competition. Ever.

 

[zrinkill]

Honest answer

With all the holes this team has, you cannot use a premium top 10 pick on someone who in all likelihood would not see the field.

 

[Redball Express]

Playing devil's advocate, okay?

Please no insults and no references to my intelligence or lack thereof.....Nah, never mind!...Asking for mercy is just pouring gasoline on a fire.

Three times in the past 11 seasons the starting QB went down early in the season and it was all over, crash and burn. It would have been four seasons but a fourth round draft choice miraculously had one of the best rookie seasons in history, who expected that?

The Cowboys rolled out a slew of backups, mostly average quarterbacks when they were in their prime. Sometimes they were on one year contracts meaning that, even if they had a good showing, they were gone the following season.

Why not kill two birds with one stone? Draft a top tier QB, if the starter goes down, the rookie gets experience. He could be a legitimate starter the following season in which case the Cowboys trade one of them. Furthermore, when a player gets paid they seem to have the tendency to play soft that season. A legitimate talent backing him up could put a little fire to Dak's backside.

The rookie salary cap allows the Cowboys to draft a QB in the top ten, I think.

You could draft a productive non-QB player in the top ten but what difference would that make if Dak is injured again or if he performs poorly? Look at the value of good young quarterbacks these days. If the Cowboys cultivate a young QB while he serves as a quality backup, the Cowboys could end up with a trade reaping great value for their future.

Look at the history of the Cowboys successful seasons. Where there not two legitimate starters?....Lebaron/Meredith...Staubach/Morton....Staubach/White....Even Roger Staubach once revealed that a reason for his success was how hard he competed with Danny White, knowing how good his competition was. Jimmy Johnson drafted two QB's #1 overall in his first season, giving up the #1 overall pick in 1990 for taking Steve Walsh in the supplemental draft. Jimmy valued competition.

Ok....let 'er rip!

The salary cap makes it hard to stockpile And. New England tried to do this but one by one they left. It's a good idea but it will ****** success as required that each player must pull his proportional value on the roster. Too much deadwood does not work.

 

[KB1122]

Funny thing is for years the other three teams in our division have had 1st round QBs while we haven't, and yet we may have had the best of the lot... no to QB or TE for me in the 1st round this year.

And yet it was the Eagles who won the Super Bowl. Thanks in no small part to Carson Wentz.

 

[KB1122]

They just paid Dak the second most for a QB ever and gave him the most guaranteed money. Rookie QBs are relatively cheap but they don't stay that way but a few seasons. Is there a suggestion here that the Cowboys will be done with Dak in a few seasons?

He'll be 30 in two seasons. If he hasn't won a SB by then, the odds start getting pretty long.

 

[KB1122]

Although not a fan of drafting a QB at 10, you should always draft the best available in the first.

Somehow, in 30 years, a quarterback has apparently never been BPA on the Cowboys draft board in the first round.. Not even Aaron Rodgers over Marcus Spears.