Your pick at 10. CB or TE?

[visionary]

Can’t answer because it’s a bad pill

I’d take

Surtain
Pitts
Horn

in that order

 

[cheyennes]

Surtain or Hurn , only with Sawell, Smith or Chase

 

[LACowboysFan1]

Tony Gonzalez was taken 13th overall in 1997 by KC.. he did alright..
Vernon Davis was taken 6th overall by the 49ers in 2006 .. he also had a nice career.. Not as good as Gonzalez but 583 catches for 7562 yards and 63 TDs aint a bad career. That's 11 fewer TDs on SIX HUNDRED fewer receptions than Witten.

Tights ends, like most positions, maybe more, need a good team around them to succeed. If one is drafted highly he's likely going to a bad team and it's not a position that can easily turn a team around. So they end up sucking on a team that sucks.. Meanwhile tight ends drafted later onto good teams like Jimmy Graham, Gronk et al have great careers because they go to good teams with good QBs and other good weapons ..

Agreed, and for Pitts to be really great the Cowboys imho would probably have to make him the focus of the offense. If memory serves Shannon Sharpe was the leading receiver for the Ravens in one of their SB winning seasons, for example. But I don't think any other tight end ever was, Gonzales' teams never even went to the Super Bowl, and he has far more receptions and touchdowns than even the vast majority of wide receivers.

Maybe Pitts could be the exception to the rule, but that's no reason for the Cowboys to draft him at 10. Again imho of course.