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With Lilly’s number, rookie DT Joey Ivie getting crash course in ‘Cowboy way’
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/article150499692.html#storylink=cpy
...A world of football separates the two. Lilly used an All-America senior season at TCU to become the Cowboys’ first-ever draft pick in 1961. Ivie, meanwhile, waited until the 10th pick of the seventh round after starting at defensive tackle for just one season at Florida...
Within that organization, the Cowboys need to strike pay dirt with some of their defensive draft picks. Due to salary cap limitations, the team let free agent after free agent walk this off-season from what was already an average defensive unit. They looked to the draft to rebuild, taking a defensive lineman or defensive back with seven of their nine picks last month.
“We need every one of these guys,” Cowboys defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli said Friday after the first rookie workout. “You treat every guy like a starter, every guy like a first-rounder, and get them going.”
There are spots available in the defensive line rotation after the departures of tackle Terrell McClain to the Commanders and end Jack Crawford to the Falcons. But will Ivie and fellow seventh-round DT Jordan Carrell be part of the youth movement to replace what was lost? Marinelli and the rest of the defensive coaches began sifting through the possibilities Friday. But if his reaction to getting Ivie with the 228th overall selection is any indicator, Marinelli likes the lump of clay he has to mold in the Florida product. Marinelli threw a pretty emphatic fist pump in the draft room when team representatives turned in Ivie’s draft card in a moment caught on Twitter...
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/article150499692.html#storylink=cpy
...A world of football separates the two. Lilly used an All-America senior season at TCU to become the Cowboys’ first-ever draft pick in 1961. Ivie, meanwhile, waited until the 10th pick of the seventh round after starting at defensive tackle for just one season at Florida...
Within that organization, the Cowboys need to strike pay dirt with some of their defensive draft picks. Due to salary cap limitations, the team let free agent after free agent walk this off-season from what was already an average defensive unit. They looked to the draft to rebuild, taking a defensive lineman or defensive back with seven of their nine picks last month.
“We need every one of these guys,” Cowboys defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli said Friday after the first rookie workout. “You treat every guy like a starter, every guy like a first-rounder, and get them going.”
There are spots available in the defensive line rotation after the departures of tackle Terrell McClain to the Commanders and end Jack Crawford to the Falcons. But will Ivie and fellow seventh-round DT Jordan Carrell be part of the youth movement to replace what was lost? Marinelli and the rest of the defensive coaches began sifting through the possibilities Friday. But if his reaction to getting Ivie with the 228th overall selection is any indicator, Marinelli likes the lump of clay he has to mold in the Florida product. Marinelli threw a pretty emphatic fist pump in the draft room when team representatives turned in Ivie’s draft card in a moment caught on Twitter...