Category: 2023 Draft

All Cowboys draft picks officially signed; contract details

From @ToddBrock24f7: The Cowboys inked 8 draft picks to contracts just before the start of rookie minicamp; Mazi Smith leads the class with a $13.27M deal.

Along with Thursday’s news that tight end Luke Schoonmaker and cornerback Eric Scott Jr. had formally signed their rookie deals came an expressed goal from the front office: to have all eight of this year’s draft picks under contract before the end of the weekend.

They gave themselves four days. It took one.

Every member of the Cowboys’ 2023 draft class officially put pen to paper on Thursday, just in time for the first day of rookie minicamp on Friday.

Here’s a dollars-and-cents breakdown on the contract given to each of this year’s picks, according to Spotrac.

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Cowboys sign Schoonmaker, expected contract details for 2nd rounder

Dallas signed their first draftee Michigan tight end Luke Schoonmaker, a day before rookie minicamp begins at The Star. | From @cdburnett7

The Cowboys rookie minicamp starts Friday, and they’ve signed their first rookie to a deal. Michigan tight end Luke Schoonmaker, who Dallas selected with the No. 58 pick, inked his four-year deal according to his agency, JL Sports.

Thanks to the rookie wage scale, which automates the majority of each rookie’s first contract, the expected value of Schoonmaker’s deal is already known. It should come in very close to $6.3 million in total value including a $1.55 million signing bonus.

Schoonmaker was a surprise selection to some, but it filled a position of need for the Cowboys who are banking on his upside. While his stats from 2022 don’t pop off the page with 418 yards and three touchdowns, his athleticism is what drew the Cowboys to him.

With the trio of Jake Ferguson, Peyton Hendershot and Sean McKeon already on roster, Schoonmaker should fit right into the group with ease and provide another option for quarterback Dak Prescott. Ferguson and Hendershot are the same age as Schoonmaker at 24, emphasizing the youth that Dallas has at the position to build over the coming years.

For now, Schoonmaker’s true journey begins in a day at rookie minicamp, where he’ll learn the ropes at The Star and look to build the trust of the Cowboys coaches as he joins a competitive tight end room..

Cowboys rookie class features 2 of nation’s Top 5 in key defensive stat

From @ToddBrock24f7: One was a 4th-round pick; one wasn’t drafted at all. But both Viliami Fehoko and Durrell Johnson do one thing better than almost everybody.

Creating havoc up front is the name of the game for defensive linemen- blowing up the plans of the opposing offense and not just holding the line of scrimmage but pushing it backward.

The Cowboys were tied for third in the league last year with 93 tackles for loss, just four behind the top-ranked Eagles. But Dallas may make even further improvements in that particular category in 2023 if two members of the incoming rookie class stay on the trajectories that have brought them to the Cowboys.

Fourth-round pick Viliami Fehoko finished last season with 19 tackles for loss with San Jose State. That was the fifth-highest total in college football; more than Will Anderson Jr., more than Tyree Wilson, more than Calijah Kancey- all of whom were Top-20 selections in this year’s draft.

But the Cowboys believe the 23-year-old Fehoko is capable of performing well beyond his selection slot.

“We’ve got a definition that fits that fourth round,” Cowboys vice president of player personnel Will McClay said over draft weekend. “It’s a guy that can come in and play and potentially start. And if they achieve that, then we’re hitting a home run. When you go in the first three rounds, people are looking for the prototype, but when the prototype runs out, you continue to go and look for football players that have the traits to play the position that you want them to play.”

And the Cowboys like what they saw in Fehoko’s play for the Spartans in the Mountain West Conference.

 

“You look at his stats, you look at his production, you look at the tape,” McClay said of the East Palo Alto native. “He does some unique things in getting edges, winning, attacking the football when he goes after the quarterback. He’s got a mission when he gets off on the snap. He gets off on the ball, and he makes big plays.”

Sharrif Floyd, the Cowboys’ new assistant defensive line coach, predicts that Fehoko will step in and contribute immediately at defensive end, but he hinted that the team may have a bigger plan for him in the future.

“I think this guy can can easily get into our rotation this year,” Floyd told The Draft Show, “and then within the next year or so, I see him moving inside to be a true 3-tenchnique. He’s got the quickness and the get-off and the power to do so, so we’ll probably get a little more weight on him and let him play inside and be disruptive for us.”

Along with Micah Parsons, DeMarcus Lawrence, Sam Williams, and Osa Odighizuwa- all of whom registered double-digit TFLs last season, Fehoko will look to end up in the opposing backfield as often as possible.

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But they might all be able to pick up a thing or two from one of the Cowboys’ undrafted free agents.

Durrell Johnson went unselected over the draft’s seven rounds. But Dallas still managed to land the Liberty defensive end who led the entire FBS in 2022 in total tackles for loss. His 27.5 mark was 5.5 TFLs higher than the second-place guy, USC’s Tuli Tuipulotu, who played one more game than Johnson and was a Friday-night draft pick.

But Johnson’s not just a one-year wonder. He was Top-30 in the nation in 2020 in sacks and made the Bronko Nagurski and Chuck Bednarik watchlists, before a knee a knee injury slowed his 2021 production and caused him to miss four games for the Flames.

Dane Brugler of The Athletic said the 250-pound Johnson “needs to continue getting stronger, but he has developmental traits in a 3-4 scheme with closing burst for a superpower.”

Sounds like he and Fehoko are custom-built for coaching up within the Dallas system as coordinator Dan Quinn continues to tinker with the Cowboys defense.

Add in fellow newcomers Mazi Smith and DeMarvion Overshown, continued excellence from Johnathan Hankins and Dorance Armstong and the veterans named above, and increased usage for youngsters Damone Clark and Jabril Cox, and it all points to the Dallas defense doubling down on their current standing as agents of chaos up front.

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Cowboys CB Eric Scott Jr. turned YouTube workout video into Day 3 draft pick

From @ToddBrock24f7: When a quad injury spoiled his pro day, the Southern Miss prospect put his talents on tape. The Cowboys fell in love with what they saw.

The Cowboys saw something in Eric Scott Jr., something that spurred them to trade up to the first selection of the sixth round on Saturday to make sure they got the Southern Mississippi cornerback.

Maybe it was his 6-foot size and his wingspan of over 80 inches. Or his nearly 40-inch vertical or his 11-foot-plus broad jump at the school’s pro day. Maybe it was his lights-out performance (five tackles, one pick-six) in an upset win over Tulane last September. Perhaps it was the way he impressed coaches and scouts at the Shrine Bowl, going up against Power Five receivers and shutting them down. By all accounts, his 30 visit to The Star certainly didn’t hurt.

Or maybe it was the video he posted to YouTube and then sent to Dan Quinn.

The 24-year-old corner is thankful for the opportunity Dallas has given him, even if he had to go to extreme measures to get it.

After a college career that took him from Illinois State to Butler Community College to Southern Miss, Scott wasn’t invited to either the Senior Bowl or the NFL scouting combine. Things had started to click for him with the Golden Eagles, but following his super-senior season in Hattiesburg, he wasn’t exactly a hot commodity in pre-draft rankings and projections. Dane Brugler of The Athletic spotlighted 46 college corners in his exhaustive draft guide with full-blown profiles; Scott came in 60th and got a one-line entry.

And then during his pro day, he pulled a quad muscle, spoiling his 40 time and taking him out of DB drills.

So after he recovered, he and his agent took matters into their own hands. They hired a videographer, hit Scott’s high school field in the Kansas City area for a full slate of defensive back workouts and drills, and put the video on YouTube.

They also sent it to Dallas defensive coordinator Dan Quinn shortly before draft weekend.

Scott had gotten a good feeling about the Cowboys during his 30 visit, saying he had “fallen in love” as he toured the facility and met with coaches and staff.

“It was amazing. I was able to meet Mr. [Jerry] Jones and go all the way from the top to the bottom and learn about the culture that Dallas has, the one I’m about to buy into and contribute to. It was just all so surreal. I had ideas [about Dallas], but I never knew it’s as great as it is,” he told reporters during his introductory conference call.

“When I was out there for my visits, I was paying attention to how people interacted with each other and when I was at Dallas the interactions even just between the support staff and the coaches and the players, it’s all a family environment. Everybody loves everybody, and I want to be a part of that.”

Scott apparently made a similar impression on the coaching staff. Defensive backs coach Al Harris came away from that visit a big fan of the Kansas native.

“Everybody I talked to,” Harris said, “I’d tell them, ‘I want to coach this guy.'”

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There’s plenty to like, including that aforementioned height and massive wingspan. But Scott’s film also shows a very physical style of play to go along with ballhawking skills that call to mind a current Cowboys corner with a nose for the football.

“I’ve had coaches that coached me for a long time tell me,” Scott explained, “if the ball was in the air, it’s not a 50/50 ball, it’s our ball.”

That’s the same mentality that Trevon Diggs plays with, and when Cowboys vice president of player personnel Will McClay saw Scott’s YouTube video, it confirmed for him what the scouting department already suspected: Scott might make an excellent complement to Diggs in the back end of the Dallas defense.

Now Scott will have a chance to actually learn behind Diggs, as well as five-time Pro Bowler Stephon Gilmore. Along with Jourdan Lewis, DaRon Bland, Nahshon Wright, and Kelvin Joseph, he’ll look to put those skills to work as part of a Cowboys secondary that’s tied for the league lead in interceptions over the past two seasons.

“You’ve been through the fire,” Quinn told Scott during the phone call to tell him he was about to be drafted, “and you’ve come out the other way as a strong, tough-ass competitor, man. We can’t wait to coach you, bro.”

And so the Cowboys didn’t wait to draft him, dealing a 2024 fifth-round pick to move to No. 178 to get him, possibly before one of the other teams he had visited- Tampa Bay, Indianapolis, Minnesota, and New Orleans- did.

Now Scott plans on making that trade worthwhile for the Cowboys.

“I’m just extremely blessed to be in this position,” Scott told 105.3 The Fan shortly after talking with the war room. “I’ve got tears rolling down my face at the moment. I’m just thankful that God has even allowed me to make it this far.”

Just a little farther, and Eric Scott Jr. will have turned being a YouTube star into wearing the Cowboys star.

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‘Most overlooked player in the draft’ hopes to make name with Cowboys as UDFA

From @ToddBrock24f7: David Durden might have been a Top-100 pick out of a bigger school; the Cowboys hope The Athletic’s “Prospect X” will play like one anyway.

David Durden’s agent believes that if he’d played at an SEC school, he would have been a Top-100 draft pick.

But he didn’t. So he wasn’t.

The 24-year-old receiver from the University of West Florida had to wait until after Mr. Irrelevant got his moment of glory to become a Dallas Cowboy, when the team invited him to sign as an undrafted free agent.

Head coach Mike McCarthy himself made the sales pitch, a job normally handled by staffers.

“We’ve had a lot of love for this guy,” Cowboys director of college scouting Mitch LaPoint said, per The Athletic. “We’ve been on David for a long time.”

That the Cowboys knew who Durden was at all could be considered a mild surprise; just a few days before selections began in Kansas City, The Athletic named him “the most overlooked player in the draft.”

In an Apr. 25 piece, Kalyn Kahler painted a vivid 2,500-word picture of Durden without ever identifying him by name. It’s an annual exercise she undertakes- polling pro scouts, tracking pro day workouts, and crunching the tape of NFL hopefuls across the country- to find what she calls “the draft’s best-kept secret.”

Referred to only by a shadowy nickname in that earlier piece, Kahler revealed in a Tuesday follow-up that “Prospect X” was, in fact, Durden.

The mysterious 6-foot-1-inch 204-pounder had an appropriately circuitous route to the Cowboys. The native of a Georgia town of fewer than 400 people played his college ball at tiny Mercer College before a coaching change led him to transfer down to the even lesser-known University of West Florida.

And all of that came after he spent 2017 in the Gulf Coast League, playing baseball for the Boston Red Sox farm team.

“Every time he hit a ball, he ran it out,” his manager said of Durden. “It doesn’t sound like it’s a big thing. But in the Gulf Coast rookie league where it’s 105 heat index every day, it’s like, pace yourself a little bit more.”

But he was bored by baseball. Football offered Durden a much faster-paced game. He was good enough- as a receiver, returner, and even a gunner on special teams- that his UWF coordinator was “scared to death” he would transfer for his senior year after getting calls from SEC schools.

Durden stayed put because he liked his small-school campus near the ocean. The first line written in his character report was: Likes to sit on the beach and drink beer.

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But despite noteworthy speed and size and three school football records set in two seasons of play, Durden was not invited to the scouting combine. He was on the Senior Bowl watchlist but didn’t get selected. He worked out on his own, believing he was good enough to go pro and trusting someone would notice.

NFL scouts agreed, with most seeming eager to keep their interest in Durden a secret. He had 22 teams at his pro day. He took meetings, had lunches and dinners, underwent physical exams, and visited three NFL cities. Several teams kept in touch. He got a pre-draft recruiting gift package from one club. The Titans called on Day 3 of the draft, hinting at using a late-round pick on him.

When McCarthy called Durden late on Saturday, he wasn’t the only head coach working the phones. Sean Payton called Durden, too. It was down to Dallas or Denver.

For the Cowboys, their seventh-round pick had come down to Durden or South Carolina’s Jalen Brooks. They felt Brooks had a higher likelihood of being drafted elsewhere; they hoped they could woo Durden after the fact with a priority free agent contract.

Dallas won Durden over; he thinks he has more of a chance to see the field.

“We gave David some good money,” LaPoint says. “But I think the pitch really was this guy’s ability to play inside and outside and then the return value and special teams value. You’re gonna have a chance to compete there.”

Dallas “came out of nowhere” to get him. There hadn’t been much pre-draft communication with Durden, though Cowboys assistant tight ends coach Chase Haslett had been a position coach at Mercer.

The Cowboys know a little about what they’re getting in the most overlooked player in the 2023 draft. Durden similarly knows little about the Cowboys. He doesn’t fancy himself an NFL fan, and he’d never even heard about the team’s massive complex at The Star in Frisco until after he’d agreed to sign.

And now it’s where he goes to work.

“I’ve never really needed a lot of motivation to want to play the game of football. But this just will make it that much more fun to go out there and prove it: ‘Hey, you didn’t pick me,'” Durden said. “I’m ready to run into somebody.”

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Cowboys issue jersey numbers to 2023 draft class

From @ToddBrock24f7: Two new Cowboys will recycle their college numbers, while a RB settles for something new, given his preferred jersey’s history in Dallas.

Eight college prospects got to hear their name called as the newest members of the Dallas Cowboys. The Cowboys, in turn, have issued them the numbers with which they’ll start their NFL journeys.

The team has announced jersey numbers for the incoming draft class. As always with a franchise as rich in history as Dallas, there are a few digit combinations that will catch the eye of longtime fans.

Jersey numbers can (and often) change once the roster is cut down at the end of training camp, meaning not all of these numbers will stick. But for now, here are the numbers the team’s eight draft selections will wear.

  • Mazi Smith, DT: 58
  • Luke Schoonmaker, TE: 86
  • DeMarvion Overshown, LB: 35
  • Viliami Fehoko, DE: 93
  • Asim Richards, OT: 76
  • Eric Scott Jr., CB: 37
  • Deuce Vaughn, RB: 42
  • Jalen Brooks, WR: 83

Perhaps the first number to attract attention is the one issued to Vaughn. The shifty running back wore No. 22 at Kansas State (double deuce; get it?), but he readily admitted in his first conference call with the Dallas media that the chances of him taking over Emmitt Smith’s jersey were non-existent.

“I know that No. 22 is 100 percent off the table,” Vaughn said Saturday after being taken in the sixth round, “so we’re going to have to go and make something shake. But regardless of what number I get, I’m super excited right now, so it doesn’t even really matter.”

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Smith’s No. 58 was worn by defensive tackle Austin Faoliu in camp last year, but he was waived in August and played most recently for the XFL’s Seattle Sea Dragons. Prior to Faoliu, No. 58 belonged to Aldon Smith and Robert Quinn. Smith wore the same jersey number at Michigan.

Schoonmaker will also recycle his college digits in the pros. In Dallas, it will allow quarterback Dak Prescott to still look for No. 86- Dalton Schultz’s old number- on a regular basis. Other notable 86s for Dallas include Eric Bjornson, Butch Johnson, and current Lions head coach Dan Campbell.

Overshown’s No. 35 has been worn recently by Damontae Kazee and Kavon Frazier.

Fehoko takes over the No. 93 from Tarell Basham. Benson Mayowa, Anthony Spencer, and Peppi Zellner have worn it in the past.

The No. 76 jersey that now belongs to Richards has history on both sides of the ball.  Flozell Adams famously wore it as a legendary Cowboys offensive lineman, but so did defensive players Larry Bethea and Greg Hardy.

Scott will wear No. 24, a jersey that belonged to both Trayvon Mullen and JaQuan Hardy recently as they tried to break into the Cowboys backfield.

Brooks will be the latest Dallas receiver to wear No. 83, like James Washington last year, and Terrance Williams, Terry Glenn, Kelvin Martin, and Golden Richards before him.

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Cowboys 2023 draft the antithesis of legendary 2020 version

At first glance the Cowboys 2023 draft looks completely different from their highly regarded draft class of 2020. At first glance… | From @ReidDHanson

The Cowboys 2020 draft was a thing of beauty. At a time when a global pandemic caused the earth to seemingly stand still, sports fans needed a pick-me-up like the NFL draft. Dallas fans got that and more when the Cowboys picked banger after banger in one of their most feel-good drafts in recent memory.

From the first pick to the last, Dallas adapted and reacted to the landscape, getting extreme value throughout and becoming the darlings of the NFL in the process. That was decidedly not the case in 2023.

As many will remember, the club had their sights set on LSU defensive end K’Lavon Chaisson with their pick at 17. But after CeeDee Lamb (a player who was widely considered WR1) fell into their laps, their plans went out the window and they pounced on opportunity.

They continued their opportunistic ways throughout the draft, snagging highly regarded players like Trevon Diggs, Neville Gallimore, Reggie Robinson and Bradlee Anae along the way. They even traded to pick up Tyler Biadasz on Day 3.

At the end of the day, fans and the Cowboys scouting department rejoiced,  even if there were some reported grumblings from coaches. It was one of the most talented draft classes in years, maximizing value at nearly every corner and filling needs along the way.

Grading every pick from Cowboys’ 2023 draft class

From a strong start to the average middle round selections, here’s the grades for every 2023 Dallas Cowboys draft pick. | From @BenGrimaldi

The draft is now complete, and the overanalyzing can begin. There were months of anticipation and projecting who the Dallas Cowboys would select in the 2023 NFL draft, much of which ended up being wrong.

Now it’s time to move on and grade what the Cowboys did with each of their eight picks. Smart football people will tell you it takes three years to fully evaluate a draft class, but who wants to wait that long? In this world of instant overreaction, Cowboys fans want to know if the team made good decisions.

Draft experts have their big boards, and so do teams, who don’t pay much attention to what outsiders think of who they select. If asked the Cowboys will impress upon the questioner each pick was the right choice. There’s little fun in agreeing with them, so here are pick grades for Dallas’ 2023 draft class.

‘Incredible journey’: Cowboys have Giants QB Daniel Jones to thank for new WR Jalen Brooks

From @ToddBrock24f7: It took 3 schools, summer training with the Giants QB, and a self-imposed break from football for Brooks to find his way to the Cowboys.

He wasn’t quite Mr. Irrelevant, but he wasn’t too far off.

Just don’t expect anyone who knows Jalen Brooks to agree with that.

The South Carolina wide receiver was the 244th overall pick (out of 259) in this weekend draft, the final selection made by the Cowboys in this year’s draft class.

But the truth is, it’s amazing he got the call at all.

“It’s bright now,” the 22-year-old said of his future in an introductory conference call with Cowboys media after being drafted. “But it definitely had a lot of dark days.”

Brooks started his college career at Wingate University in North Carolina, a tiny private school with just 2,600 students. Over 12 game appearances as a freshman, he caught just 17 balls, but averaged a promising 17.5 yards per reception.

His sophomore year, he earned All-South Atlantic Conference honors in a 10-2 season. This time, he averaged 21.5 yards per catch. But in the team’s RPO offense, the Bulldogs receivers were rarely more than decoys, and he realized his volume simply wouldn’t be increasing anytime soon.

“I knew in order to get to that next level, I needed the ball more,” he said of the experience.

Brooks transferred to Tarleton State in Texas… but then COVID-19 happened. He says he spent an “extremely hard” summer commuting back and forth from Stephensville, Texas to his home in Charlotte- a 14- to 16-hour drive- as he waited for the world to return to normal.

It was during that summer of displacement that he started working out with QB Country, a position-specific training and development company whose clients include Mac Jones, Gardner Minshew, Sam Howell, Cowboys backup Cooper Rush, and others.

QBC’s Anthony Boone, a former Duke quarterback, had based himself in Charlotte specifically to work with Giants passer and fellow Blue Devils alum Daniel Jones. With North Carolina stay-at-home orders limiting groups to under 10 people, Brooks became one of the receivers who would join Jones and Boone at local parks around the area for socially-distanced throwing sessions.

Brooks says things then started to click for him in a different way.

“He pretty much introduced me to a pro-style offense,” Brooks said of Jones. “I was just out there, just me and a whole bunch of NFL veterans as well that were out there. We just all connected and were just grinding through that whole process.”

When schools returned to face-to-face, Brooks says Jones lobbied for him to transfer to Duke, but South Carolina had already made him an offer with new coach Shane Beamer at the helm.

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Some transfer-related red tape regarding his eligibility held Brooks out of all but the Gamecocks’ final six games of the 2020 season. He started the first six games of his senior season in 2021, but then, citing “personal reasons,” Brooks left the team and missed the final seven contests.

He returned as a super senior- and a changed man- in 2022.

“Things come up that are more important than football,” Brooks told The State about his absence. “You’ve always got to handle your business. Adversity came my way, but I didn’t stop grinding. I kept on working. I came back stronger and faster. I missed for personal reasons and I’m going to continue to keep it that way, [but] it was also a blessing in disguise. I got to create a new identity outside of football. I came back and graduated. I started my master’s. I’m very excited.”

That excitement came through on the field, as the rejuvenated Brooks started all 12 games and ranked second on the team in both receptions and receiving yards. He was recognized with the Overcoming Adversity Award at the team’s senior banquet and began preparing for a possible next step to the pro level.

“Brooks is a physical route runner who uses his strength and body position to gain late separation,” wrote ESPN. “He has long arms, high-points the ball, and excels at winning contested balls. Brooks is a strong runner after the catch and will break some tackles.”

Things were looking up, enough for Brooks to even earn an invite to the NFL scouting combine.

It went poorly.

Although he hit the 91st percentile in the broad jump, Brooks turned in the slowest 40 time of any receiver and failed to impress in any other test or stand out in any physical category apart from arm length.

Still, there was something about him. And a Cowboys scout had noticed.

“The scout that goes in the area,” Cowboys vice president of player personnel Will McClay explained in the team’s Day 3 press conference. “When we have these meetings, they go through and they have a feeling about the player: you talk about him in the room, you talk about the traits they have and how they fit.”

But Brooks had no idea the Cowboys had ever seen him outside of one brief conversation at the College Gridiron Showcase, an all-star game in Fort Worth.

So when he got the call from Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer, Brooks described it as “a super surreal moment.” Now he’ll be in the room with CeeDee Lamb, Michael Gallup, and Brandin Cooks as he looks to overcome the odds once again.

Brooks is admittedly a largely unknown commodity. That can be said of any seventh-round draft pick. But the Cowboys have seen enough to warrant a closer look. And his former coaches at South Carolina are excited for the Dallas staff to discover what they’ve already known, as evidenced by the congratulatory video the program put out on social media, one in which Gamecocks wide receivers coach Justin Stepp is overcome with emotion.

“Incredible journey to get to where he is,” McClay told media members Saturday after Brooks’s selection had been made official. “And to get here, you know that achieving part is in him and you know there’s more upside to him.”

Brooks couldn’t agree more.

“I’m blessed to be in this position right now,” he says. “But the job is just now getting started. It’s nowhere close to being finished.”

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LOOK: DeMarvion Overshown tweets proof dreams come true

The newest Dallas linebacker has always wanted to be a Cowboys, and he tweeted proof the love runs deep. | From @KDDrummondNFL

The Dallas Cowboys are a popular sports team. There’s a reason Jerry Jones has been able to turn an investment of under $200 million that was losing millions a month into a valuation of just under $10 billion. The brand is strong because of historic relevance and savvy marketing.

America’s Team has fans everywhere around the world, really, but the heart of the fanbase resides in their home state of Texas. And as a Texas kid, linebacker DeMarvion Overshown was not immune to rooting for the organization. Growing up in Arp, Overshown came up with dreams of playing for the Cowboys one day.

And he has proof, too.

Overshown tweeted out a copy of a school paper of some level from his elementary school days. In the third grade he spoke on what his favorite sport was.

“Football, because my dad played this sport. I am going to play in the NFL one day for the Dallas Cowboys.”

Dreams do come true.

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