Richard Paolinelli
The Dallas Cowboys will have two picks in the sixth round of the NFL Draft next week. That’s the good news. The bad news is that both picks fall in the bottom third of the round. With as many needs this roster has to fill, it becomes more important than ever for the Cowboys to hit …
Near the end of the 2024 college football season, LSU receiver Kyren Lacy was a potential first-round pick in next week’s draft. That all changed in mid-December on a road in Louisiana. Lacy was allegedly driving recklessly, speeding and passing in a no-passing zone that morning. An oncoming car swerved to avoid hitting Lacy’s car. That …
After taking the first couple of hours off of the Saturday session of the draft, the Dallas Cowboys will get back to work in the fifth round. Dallas will have two draft picks in this round to work with. At one point, they had four picks in the fifth round. They shipped off one to Buffalo …
Last week, I mocked the first three rounds of next week’s NFL Draft, as did Mark Heaney. I stopped after three rounds for two reasons. The first being, for the second-straight year, Dallas doesn’t have a fourth rounder due to a poor trade. The second being that, after three rounds, the reaching begins in earnest. Trying …
When the 2025 NFL Draft gets underway in Green Bay next week, the Dallas Cowboys will be without a fourth-round pick for the second straight year. And they have no one else to blame but themselves for it. Last year’s fourth-round pick had been traded to the San Francisco 49ers back before the 2023 season began …
Barring this suggested trade, and based on the earlier mocks of the first and second rounds, the Dallas Cowboys will likely pull the trigger on a running back on Friday night. By then, however, the top players will likely be gone. There is one running back who made a name for himself in his senior season …
In a move that should have happened the instant the NFL lifted its league-wide ban on any team jersey having just a “0” on it, DeMarvion Overshown is back as Agent 0. When the NFL lifted the restriction, then safety Jayron Kearse was slated to wear the number but instead was issued a “1”, leaving fans …
The Dallas Cowboys currently hold 10 draft picks going into this year’s NFL draft. Which begs the question: Do they use all 10 picks and draft 10 players? Or, do they take some of those extra picks in the final three rounds and take a big swing in the first round? Jerry Jones hasn’t taken many …
One way or the other, the Dallas Cowboys should attend to an offensive need in the first round. Should they hold true to that, they can go running back or wide receiver, whichever one they don’t pick in the first round, in the second round. Or, they could go with a defensive player in this round …
In yesterday’s post, I mocked the entire first round of the NFL draft with Dallas taking a wide receiver with the 12th pick. As an interesting aside, I had the Cleveland Browns taking WR/CB Travis Hunter instead of his Colorado teammate, quarterback Sheduer Sanders. Six hours later, this happened: Two-plus weeks ahead of the NFL Draft, …
There are a couple of rock-solid givens in the 2025 NFL Draft. Cam Ward will be the number one pick by Tennessee, the Cowboys won’t get a chance to draft Ashton Jeanty thanks to the Raiders, and two Colorado Buffaloes could go back-to-back. Okay, the last one is the least likely of the three. Many mock …
Last week, the Dallas Cowboys solved an immediate roster issue by trading for quarterback Joe Milton. The former Tennessee alum saw just one game in his rookie year with the Patriots. With Cooper Rush signing with the Ravens and Trey Lance off to the Chargers, the Cowboys needed another backup for Dak Prescott in addition to …
Last year at about this time, I posted my way-too-early, pre-draft prediction post for the NFC East. As I did last year, I will mention that there are still a lot of variables in play that can, and will, change these predictions. We have the rest of free agency, contract negotiations, and the draft in three …
When it comes to Jerry Jones’ stewardship of the Dallas Cowboys, somebody please make it make sense. The owner of the Cowboys brought his clown show stewardship of the franchise to the annual NFL meetings this week. Needless to say, nothing good came of it. With the NFL Draft just three weeks away, and most of …
I’m usually not much of a one to get into conspiracy theories, but NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is really pushing the boundaries. For some time now, he’s been preaching at the altar of “Player Safety” when pitching rules changes. Sometimes to the extreme. We’re perilously close to having a flag thrown on a defender for breathing …
If you’re a Star Trek nerd like me, you’ve heard of the old Klingon saying: “Today is a good day to die.” Well, today is a good day for one of the biggest garbage plays in the history of the NFL to die. The NFL Rules Committee is poised to put an end to “The Tush …
The Dallas Cowboys were surprisingly active in the first few weeks of free agency this year. At least in quantity if not in quality. As the first month of the NFL’s new year winds down, the Cowboys currently have 75 players on the active roster and already counting against the cap. They have another 17 players …
Considering how many holes the Cowboys are trying to fill this spring, tight end might be the one position that they should ignore. Dallas has a solid top three tight ends on their depth chart coming into next month’s draft. Bringing in another tight end might be overkill. In other words, if it ain’t broke, don’t …
Even with Stefon Diggs signing a massive deal to join the New England Patriots on Tuesday, there does remain quite a few free agent receivers on the market. There was no way the Cowboys were going to spend that kind of money on Diggs. Despite many in the fanbase wanting to see the Diggs brothers on …
The Cowboys have made moves to address a shockingly empty running back room this month. With Rico Dowdle packing his bags for Carolina, Dallas was left with Deuce Vaughn, Hunter Luepke, and Malik Davis at running back. That was not optimal. In the two weeks of free agency, the Cowboys have signed a pair of backs, …
With this year’s free agency period now at two weeks old, there are several free agent quarterbacks still on the market. The Dallas Cowboys have two quarterbacks currently on the roster in Dak Prescott and Will Grier. They will almost certainly add a third sooner or later. But will that new quarterback come from free agency …