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With the 2019 NFL Draft in the rear view mirror, the role of the scouts has reached the end of their season-long journey. While coaching staffs work around the NFL calendar. Scouting staffs however don’t get a chance to relax and regroup until after the draft preparations are over. For one of the long-time members of the Dallas Cowboys’ scouting staff, it’s time to walk away for one final time.
Tom Ciskowski, a 27-year veteran of the organization is retiring.
#Cowboys Sr. Personnel Executive Tom Ciskowski is retiring. Ciskowski originally joined the team in '92 and headed the team's draft from '08-'13, during which time @dallascowboys drafted @DezBryant, Sean Lee, Tyron Smith, @DeMarcoMurray, Travis Frederick & many other top players.
— Neil Stratton (@InsideTheLeague) May 3, 2019
Ciskowski served as an area scout, director of college and pro scouting, assistant director of player personnel and finally as senior personnel executive.
He is perhaps best known for his role in discovering Hall of Fame guard Larry Allen when he was the Cowboys’ west coast scout. He ended up pounding the table for an unheralded OL from tiny Sonoma State during the 1994 draft and the rest is history.
He was promoted to Cowboys’ director of pro and college scouting in 2008, succeeding Jeff Ireland, and steered the team’s draft efforts until 2013.
Ciskowski had his share of successes but some of his final years as draft chief were notorious for big misses, most notably the “special teams draft” of 2009 where the Cowboys selected twelve players, most of whom failed to make any substantial impact.
After current draft boss Will McClay took over the reigns of running the draft process in 2013, Ciskowski descended the ranks and settled into more of an advisory capacity without supervisory responsibilities. He had his critics during his era as the head of the college scouting arm, but he always had a very famous former colleague and friend in his corner.
“@ToddHebert: @jimmyjohnson is it jerry or is it a poor scouting department led by tom ciskowski?”I like Ciskowski..worked for me
— Jimmy Johnson (@JimmyJohnson) January 3, 2012
Ciskowski is not the only member of the staff who has decided it is time to move on. Area scout Jim Abrams is getting a new, hire position with an AFC squad.
Longtime #Cowboys area scout Jim Abrams will join the #Raiders as their new Director of College Scouting. Abrams also scouted #49ers and for the #Bucs during head coach Jon Gruden's time in Tampa.
— Neil Stratton (@InsideTheLeague) May 3, 2019
Abrams served as the Cowboys’ west coast area scout since 2012. He leaves Dallas to work alongside Mike Mayock and reunites with his former colleague in Tampa, Jon Gruden.
It remains to be seen how these two departures will shape the team’s scouting department going forward. With McClay front and center and being more and more prominent, it could mean a larger voice for Director of College Scouting Lionel Vital as well as some other internal shuffles as the team moves into the 2019 campaign.
You can chat with or follow C.C. on twitter @boozeman811.
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Tom Ciskowski, a 27-year veteran of the organization is retiring.
#Cowboys Sr. Personnel Executive Tom Ciskowski is retiring. Ciskowski originally joined the team in '92 and headed the team's draft from '08-'13, during which time @dallascowboys drafted @DezBryant, Sean Lee, Tyron Smith, @DeMarcoMurray, Travis Frederick & many other top players.
— Neil Stratton (@InsideTheLeague) May 3, 2019
Ciskowski served as an area scout, director of college and pro scouting, assistant director of player personnel and finally as senior personnel executive.
He is perhaps best known for his role in discovering Hall of Fame guard Larry Allen when he was the Cowboys’ west coast scout. He ended up pounding the table for an unheralded OL from tiny Sonoma State during the 1994 draft and the rest is history.
He was promoted to Cowboys’ director of pro and college scouting in 2008, succeeding Jeff Ireland, and steered the team’s draft efforts until 2013.
Ciskowski had his share of successes but some of his final years as draft chief were notorious for big misses, most notably the “special teams draft” of 2009 where the Cowboys selected twelve players, most of whom failed to make any substantial impact.
After current draft boss Will McClay took over the reigns of running the draft process in 2013, Ciskowski descended the ranks and settled into more of an advisory capacity without supervisory responsibilities. He had his critics during his era as the head of the college scouting arm, but he always had a very famous former colleague and friend in his corner.
“@ToddHebert: @jimmyjohnson is it jerry or is it a poor scouting department led by tom ciskowski?”I like Ciskowski..worked for me
— Jimmy Johnson (@JimmyJohnson) January 3, 2012
Ciskowski is not the only member of the staff who has decided it is time to move on. Area scout Jim Abrams is getting a new, hire position with an AFC squad.
Longtime #Cowboys area scout Jim Abrams will join the #Raiders as their new Director of College Scouting. Abrams also scouted #49ers and for the #Bucs during head coach Jon Gruden's time in Tampa.
— Neil Stratton (@InsideTheLeague) May 3, 2019
Abrams served as the Cowboys’ west coast area scout since 2012. He leaves Dallas to work alongside Mike Mayock and reunites with his former colleague in Tampa, Jon Gruden.
It remains to be seen how these two departures will shape the team’s scouting department going forward. With McClay front and center and being more and more prominent, it could mean a larger voice for Director of College Scouting Lionel Vital as well as some other internal shuffles as the team moves into the 2019 campaign.
You can chat with or follow C.C. on twitter @boozeman811.
Gallery
Cowboys 2019 Depth Chart, position by position
Continue reading...