We literally do not have a running back

[Davidlee1973]

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Sorry I can't help myself.

Cowboys got 3 players with 1st round grades. It's just that simple.

top scouts had 14 players this year with first round grades. There is a difference between a grade and where they are projected. None of the guys Dallas drafted has first round grades.

 

[big dog cowboy]

None of the guys Dallas drafted has first round grades.

 

[rambo2]

It worries me.. but I have no issues with what they have been doing so far

Important day today. They need to get a good back and defensive tackle. How about Bhayshul Tuten and Deone Walker or Joshua Farmer.

 

[Davidlee1973]

The laughing emoji does not help your position. Look it up.

 

[TwentyOne]

Let's move on .........you are starting to sound too personal over a simple question.

Yes. Good idea.

I was a bit too harsh. Sorry for that.

 

[TwentyOne]

The laughing emoji does not help your position. Look it up.

He wont admit it.

 

[ErikWilliamsHeadSlap]

We could have had Hampton at 12. We pass and draft a Guard, that they did not need. This pick screams. Wasted pick. Booker has a 2nd round grade. So than they get another chance to get a good back. Johnson available. What does Jerry do. He picks a crippled corner and than does a dance. So now we have three defensive backs who will start the season on the PUP list. This sums up the last 30 years.

So much wrong in here. How many great seasons did Saquon have without an elite o-line and 2 top receivers and a dual threat quarterback around him? How much time did Saquon miss after getting beat up behind a bad o-line? How many QB's tell you that they hate pressure up the middle the most? (all of them) That is why you draft a guard who dominated in college against top competition and was a team leader.

Nobody was going to take Hampton at 12.

Revel isn't crippled. J. Smith was crippled. Revel has a knee injury that occurred early in September and is on schedule to be ready for training camp.

You're "performance" on here in the last 16 hours or so has been pathetic. Either you are hating just to hate. Having a temper tantrum because they didn't pick "your guy". Or you're looking for attention. Or just have limited football knowledge.

Or all of the above. Give it a rest. Or at least take a breath.

 

[Angus12]

Show some sources.

In one minute i found bleacher who had him as a round 2 prospect. And the NFL who had him going brtween round 1 and 2.

bleacher on Booker

Bleacher had him at 33. The first pick in the 2nd round. That's the lowest I could find.

Kiper had him at 18. Pro Football Network had him at 17. Brugler had him at 24. Daniel Jeremiah had him at 17.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Again,
my opinion is that stopping the run and protecting the QBs blindside are of higher need than OG play.
And Hoffman, Bass or any of the other 3 new FA along with new OL coaching are more than enough to get the job done.
On the contrary, stopping Saquon or Henry or who was the Saints'...?
Yeah, stopping the run.

No worries.
Different priorities.
I can respect that.

Oh I agree with you. I would’ve been perfectly fine going DT or receiver. I think guard was a much underrated need is all I’m saying. My mind I want to do what I can to dominate the trenches. I don’t think a DT in this draft would give us a dominate interior except maybe Graham. I think Booker can make our middle interior dominate.

 

[kskboys]

I have very little to complain about with our picks so far. They are all solid imo. The main issue is this front office thinks it can win a SB strictly through the draft and bargain bin shopping in FA since FA became a thing. It’s hard to do and it likely never will be done by THIS front office. The percentage you have to hit on draft picks over multiple drafts is too high for even competent front offices to plausibly maintain in order to fill out a SB-level roster while employing a strategy where you basically ignore splash signings in FA.

Our drafting, by and large, isn’t a problem and this draft so far has been fine. To be fair, we won’t know ish till they put pads on and hit the field, but based on current knowledge and reasonable predictions, our draft has been pretty solid so far.

So, you don't care that we still can't stop the run and that we once again passed up the chance to form a super bowl quality DT tandem?

Who you pass up is often just as important as who you take. And often much more important.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

48th on PFF Big Board & early 2nd round projection (35t rated player) on Nfldraftbuzz just to name a couple sources. Plenty others offer similar opinions.

Graded lower in part due to being a Guard only with no possibility of position flex as punctuated by his terrible combine numbers - which was pretty much expected.

NFL draft network put out 5 names to not worry about based on subpar combine measurables. They are Tex Johnson, Maliki Starks, Harold Fannin, Mason Graham, and Tyler Booker.

Yeah but if a team with a million plus invested in their scouting department tells you a guy is a first round grade but PFF says otherwise why are we listening to PfF? Why even have scouting departments?

 

[kskboys]

Oh I agree with you. I would’ve been perfectly fine going DT or receiver. I think guard was a much underrated need is all I’m saying. My mind I want to do what I can to dominate the trenches. I don’t think a DT in this draft would give us a dominate interior except maybe Graham. I think Booker can make our middle interior dominate.

Grant. Whom Mia gladly snatched up soon after our pick.

Yes, we needed an OG and Booker looks great. However, we're still not going anywhere as long as the middle of our D is weak, and it's embarrassingly weak.

 

[Davidlee1973]

So much wrong in here. How many great seasons did Saquon have without an elite o-line and 2 top receivers and a dual threat quarterback around him? How much time did Saquon miss after getting beat up behind a bad o-line? How many QB's tell you that they hate pressure up the middle the most? (all of them) That is why you draft a guard who dominated in college against top competition and was a team leader.

Nobody was going to take Hampton at 12.

Revel isn't crippled. J. Smith was crippled. Revel has a knee injury that occurred early in September and is on schedule to be ready for training camp.

You're "performance" on here in the last 16 hours or so has been pathetic. Either you are hating just to hate. Having a temper tantrum because they didn't pick "your guy". Or you're looking for attention. Or just have limited football knowledge.

Or all of the above. Give it a rest. Or at least take a breath.

Our guy Bucky Brooks had mocked Hampton to the cowboys at 12

 

[rambo2]

None of these guys are impact back. We needed Hampton or jones. Both were there when they drafted.

needed Hampton at 12. Did not need a RG. They just signed a veteran. Than they had another chance to get Johnson. They go draft a crippled corner. So now we have three db’s who will be start the year on the PUP list

This draft has been outstanding. They can top it off today if they get lucky in getting a running back and dtackle and are able to trade for some vets.

 

[big dog cowboy]

The laughing emoji does not help your position. Look it up.

I don't have to. I was listening to the draft show and they literally said exactly what I posted.

 

[LACowboysFan1]

We could have had Hampton at 12. We pass and draft a Guard, that they did not need. This pick screams. Wasted pick. Booker has a 2nd round grade. So than they get another chance to get a good back. Johnson available. What does Jerry do. He picks a crippled corner and than does a dance. So now we have three defensive backs who will start the season on the PUP list. This sums up the last 30 years.

I'm with you mostly, but Booker a second-round grade?

David Jerimiah had him at the no. 17 ranking overall, not guards, overall.

Walter Football had him listed as their No. 1 guard prospect. Per their evaluation:
4/22/25: Booker was dominant in 2024. He is a true power run blocker who can regularly knock defenders back and push them out of his gap. Booker also is superb in pass protection. He is also a fiery leader and a high-character individual. Team sources rave about Booker’s leadership in the locker room and on the sideline. Booker looks like a plug-and-play starter with the potential to be a Pro Bowl guard at the NFL level early in his pro career.

Booker might have been available at 44, but that's an unknown. I'd have preferred one of the top DTs for run stopping instead of Booker, but as far as the player himself goes, very good pick.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Our guy Bucky Brooks had mocked Hampton to the cowboys at 12

"Our guy"??? Well I don't know about that. But I do know there was zero chance the Cowboys were taking him at 12.

 

[CarolinaFathead]

So, you don't care that we still can't stop the run and that we once again passed up the chance to form a super bowl quality DT tandem?

Who you pass up is often just as important as who you take. And often much more important.

We have loads of holes, because our front office is so incompetent, and you can’t address them all with three picks, which just highlights how stupid it is to employ bargain bin shopping in FA as an implacable strategic axiom. You have a couple bad drafts, which every team has no matter how good their FO is or isn’t, and you’re in a hole you can’t get out of for years.

I’d have been fine going DT at 12, as well. My main hope with drafting is to get a good player at each pick that will meaningfully contribute. If a team, on average, does that at a good percentage from draft to draft, then you’re a team that can say you consistently draft well.

 

[rambo2]

The point is

I’m trying to figure out what the point was in bringing in, or meeting with all these RB’s, on the visits if you were never planning on drafting one?

Also, news flash folks. The offensive skill players are still exactly the same as they have been for 3 years folks! Lamb and no one else……

The point is being prepared. We can't complain on the 3 players they drafted. It's been a slam dunk. The players they got are outstanding.

 

[GINeric]

We could have had Hampton at 12. We pass and draft a Guard, that they did not need. This pick screams. Wasted pick. Booker has a 2nd round grade. So than they get another chance to get a good back. Johnson available. What does Jerry do. He picks a crippled corner and than does a dance. So now we have three defensive backs who will start the season on the PUP list. This sums up the last 30 years.

You lost me at "drafting a guard that they didn't need". Where have you been the last few seasons while we had a weak running game and linemen shuffling positions due to injury? Did you realize that until last season, our STARTING offensive line didn't play together for three straight seasons????

I'll bet you were one of those people who wanted us to draft Johnny Manziel and got angry when we drafted Martin at guard.

This isn't Madden franchise mode. You need functioning linemen on both sides of the ball.