According to David Moore of the Dallas Morning News, the Cowboys entered the second day of the draft with one thing in mind: defense. Thus far, the team is yet to address either of these needs. “We believe Zeke gives us a chance to do that”. The Cowboys front office have had their eyes on Prescott for months now, and they made sure to get their quarterback with the 135th overall pick.
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Smith and Jack are arguably the two best linebackers leaving the college ranks and both are struggling with bad knees.
Then they used their top two picks, No. 5 and No. 34, on a running back and a linebacker who’s rehabbing an injury and has no timetable for his return. “The NFL will be lucky to get a young man like this”.
The Cowboys have repeatedly taken high-risk/high-reward players in the second round since Jason Garrett has been coach. The Cowboys doctor, DR. Dan Cooper, had more knowledge of Smith’s injury than anybody else because he performed he surgery. No one can rush it. Our world is so like now, now, now.
The Dallas Cowboys have another candidate for the backup job behind quarterback Tony Romo.
Friday’s second round opened with two edge players being drafted – Emmanuel Ogbah (Oklahoma State) to the Cleveland Browns and Clemson’s Kevin Dodd to the Tennessee Titans – before the Cowboys pulled Friday’s first surprise.
So while the organization gets a bit of a pass for circumstances beyond its control in regards to the defensive end position, it must be criticized for not addressing the 2016 defense in other areas.
That’s when Michael Irvin stepped to the podium and announced that Jerry Jones officially OK’d Smith, a top-five talent who most expected to fall all the way to the third day because of a gruesome leg injury suffered in the Fiesta Bowl back in January against Ohio State, as the ‘Boys pick.
Smith also damaged a nerve when he landed awkwardly after being pushed by Ohio State’s Taylor Decker.
While that decision showed how highly Dallas thinks of Smith, it ultimately cost him up to $4.1 million in an insurance payout.
Wearing a Dallas Cowboys-blue suit, running back Ezekiel Elliott strode into the Cowboys Valley Ranch headquarters like he belongs.
To emphasise how impressive that is, Elliott rushed for 262 yards and 2 touchdowns in his Freshman year, meaning that the remaining 41 touchdowns and 3699 rushing yards came across his Sophomore and Junior seasons. He’s a guy who comes in without any off the field problems and if you have to question whether his school and teammates love him. It’s how often it’s invoked by teams to avoid drafting or hanging onto players with hard-luck injuries or heartbreaking setbacks in their recent pasts.
It now appears that if the Cowboys are to add difference makers in the draft, they will have to do something the team has not done well in the Jerry Jones era, find contributors in the final four rounds.
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So they don’t view him as the kind of luxury draft pick only an elite team would take.
