This may not go over well, I already know but bear with me. It’s early in the draft process and rolling out mock after mock with the same players chosen will become repetitive very quickly. In our first mock, run a month ago, we had a small trade back and selected corner-corner-safety to hit the secondary with a barrage of high-level targets. All things being equal, that is likely going to be where we settle once it gets to mid-April. Bombard the secondary.
But four months prior? It’s imperative to consider every possibility. So what happens if the Dallas Cowboys are not enamored – for whatever reason – with the two cornerbacks most currently see as the top options? What happens if they aren’t enamored with the other defensive options projected for the top of the draft? Could they make moves backwards to stockpile picks, grab the best player on the board when they finally do select and then walk away with a mountain of defensive talent still ranked in their Top 30, 50, 100 players?
That’s what we did in this exercise, ending up with seven picks in the Top 88. This team has a talent deficiency, so rebuilding the base on defense is probably more important than finding a stud at one spot and leaving others to the end of the draft.
Assuming Dak Prescott is still the man in Dallas and will be under center for the foreseeable future, what about adding a fourth dynamic playmaker to his arsenal if it comes with a slew of defenders? Let’s rock.