Well yeah. He wasn’t a first round pick so that’s the end of it. Doesn’t preclude him from having first round impact though is the hope
To me, that's a different thing all together. I mean, I don't really get hung up on where a guy is taken. Heck, some of the greatest players in the history of this franchise were not 1st round picks.
Roger Staubach, not a 1st round pick, Tony Romo, not a first round pick, Jason Witten, not a first round pick, the list literally goes on and on:
Larry Allen
Bullet Bob Hayes
Drew Pearson
Mel Renfro
Harvey Martin
Woody
Charlie Waters
Moose
Don Meredith
Danny White
I mean, I could go on here. The point being that we probably have more all time great Cowboy players who were not 1st round picks. What round you are picked in is not nearly as relevant, to me, as is the actual effort a player puts into it. I'm just saying that in terms of the evaluation process, teams have very specific matrix on that and if you check all the boxes, you are going to get taken in the first round regardless of how difficult you might be to work with. I mean, just look at a guy like Lawrence Taylor. Everybody knew he was hard to work with, had a mind of his own and other issues going on. They knew and they still took him because he checked off a lot of boxes. The other side of that is a guy like Ryan Leaf. He could easily have been the 1st overall pick in his draft, he had about as good a natural set of skills as you will ever see at the QB position, checked all the boxes but everybody knew he had issues in his personality and it didn't stop the Chargers from taking him.
To me, it doesn't really matter where a player is taken. It's much more important to be able to seize the opportunity and run with it, so to speak. JMO....