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Have you been wondering what the Cowboys most recent draft board looked like? Well wonder no further, because once again the board has been leaked and BTB has every player, slotted just as they were in the Cowboys' war room!
Based on some photos taken in the room, bloggers have reconstructed the Cowboys draft board.
For the curious, here's where they ranked our picks. (Unseen could be unranked or simply obscured by people in the photos)
EJ Manuel - 4th round
Robert Woods - Unseen
Kiko Alonso - 4th Round
Marquise Goodwin - 6th round
Duke Williams - Unseen
Jonathan Meeks - 6th round
Dustin Hopkins - No special teamers listed
Chris Gragg - Unseen
So JERRY JONE would not have approved. Take that for what you will.
Based on some photos taken in the room, bloggers have reconstructed the Cowboys draft board.
For the curious, here's where they ranked our picks. (Unseen could be unranked or simply obscured by people in the photos)
EJ Manuel - 4th round
Robert Woods - Unseen
Kiko Alonso - 4th Round
Marquise Goodwin - 6th round
Duke Williams - Unseen
Jonathan Meeks - 6th round
Dustin Hopkins - No special teamers listed
Chris Gragg - Unseen
So JERRY JONE would not have approved. Take that for what you will.
18 players had 1st round grades...
And 22 in the 2nd, and 28 in the 3rd...
I guess chances are very good they think teams over-drafted players in rounds 2 and beyond. And that they set themselves up for self back-patting with "steals"
Turns out they did it in the 1st round by drafting Frederick who they had as a 2nd rounder... Maybe he didn't approve of this move in his own draft either.
2) Escobar is graded as a 2nd
3) Williams with a 2nd round grade (steal in their mind)
3b) Wilcox they had as a 3rd
4) Webb they had as a 3rd (steal to them)
5) Randle they had as a 3rd (super steal)
6) Holloman they had as a 5th (steal)
And the of course you have Barley and Nassib who they had as 2nd rounders... And if they stack vertically, they had Nassib as their top QB.
And Robert Woods doesn't even make their list... Maybe he's un-draftable to them.
I think what this points to is that their is very much a range in how teams feel about players. And that the boards are all very different. To play off on a comment from this morning, it seems to show evidence that statements like "the Bills tried to outsmart the league" are simply irrational. Teams all stack the board differently so there is rarely a pick that is unanimously bad or unanimously good... Statements like "everyone else had a 4th round grade on him" are also false.
That said, there still can be a general consensus where most teams feel player X is only worth a 4th rounder. But to make that statement one would have to see all the boards. And that is something that will never happen.
Robert Woods really makes the point the best; not Manuel. They didn't even have him on their board. And it's not like they didn't want a WR at all. They took Williams in the 3rd. To me Robert Woods is a way better prospect and it isn't very close. So there is no way this goes strictly by ranking. To them Robert Woods was not a fit at all. It also goes by the fit for the team and other factors... I think it's clear that this board is the Cowboys ranking for who would be the best for the Cowboys... in order. And most (if not all) teams would say that's how they do it too. The Bills have said it over and over.
Based on some photos taken in the room, bloggers have reconstructed the Cowboys draft board.
For the curious, here's where they ranked our picks. (Unseen could be unranked or simply obscured by people in the photos)
EJ Manuel - 4th round
Robert Woods - Unseen
Kiko Alonso - 4th Round
Marquise Goodwin - 6th round
Duke Williams - Unseen
Jonathan Meeks - 6th round
Dustin Hopkins - No special teamers listed
Chris Gragg - Unseen
So JERRY JONE would not have approved. Take that for what you will.
Jones has won exactly how many championships after he fired Johnson and Switzer? He's a turd who proves that you can't buy championships.
this from a team who keeps resigning tony romo, a guy that everyone knows will never win the big one.
And when Nassib and Barkley, who they had as 2nd round talents, were still sitting there in the 3rd round they skipped them. Even when they had 2, 3rd round picks.
Guys, I said some players might have been obscured by people standing in the photos? We don't know where Woods was ranked, he may have been in the 2nd or he many have been off the board entirely.
I could really give a damn where Dallas had their players ranked. Every team has a different draft board outside of the top players. For those who acts like their draft board doesn't matter because they had Manuel as a 4th, Alonso as a 4th and other Bills players a lot further down the list would be doing the reverse if they had Manuel and Alonso listed as a 1st round pick. They would be using it as "proof" of how well the Bills drafted and how highly rated Manuel was.
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