Under Will McClay Dallas has not missed when using a 1R on an offensive player. In fact they have drafted three O-Lineman in the 1st Round and all of them have multiple All Pro status next to their names. In fact Going back to 2010 When Mcclay Joined the Front Office Dallas has had 6 first round picks they spent on Offense 5 became All Pro's and all have Pro Bowls. This includes (Dez, Tyrone Smith, Frederick, Martin, Zeke and CD Lamb). To put that in perspective the hit rate in the first round where you have one pro-bowl is about 38%. Dallas is at 100% on Offense and on defense is 60% (LVE, Byron Jones & Parson have pro-bowls - Claiborne & Taco do not).

So lets look at the pick. This is Travis Frederick all over again. The Draft Experts who don't work for a team passed this guy, but Dallas saw a top Tackle who fits what they are trying to do...he is a little more raw and also played for a smaller school, but his traits are off the chart. Interesting note but his coach noted that some of those penalties were him blowing away people but ended up as bad calls as the ref sees the guy fall down and throws the flags. Jerry and Stephen noted the same thing. Offensive lineman get penalized for two reasons....Bad Technique (correctable), Discipline (correctable) or getting overpowered. The latter is why Connor Williams is no longer with the team. Also this guy, with Martin on the other side are going to blow some holes in the middle of the line...Zeke's numbers started to decline when they moved Connor Williams inside and La'el Collins outside (when they lost Frederic it got even worse). Getting that blast in the middle is what has been missing.

Dallas needed Offensive line help and this was the highest guy on the board. Whether the team team that said after Jerry didn't trade that they would have taken his guy is lying or not remains to be seen. Given the reach by NE, I doubt Tyler Smith gets passed Bellichek.

As for the rest of the draft. I would have liked Dean, but I like Sam "De" Williams better. This is an SEC LB that was awesome against the best talent in college football. His problems don't appear to be as bad as people make them (charges dropped). Lawrence, Williams, Fowler and Armstrong will give Dan Quinn a lot to work with outside. Ridgeway joining with Gallimore and Osa and Bohanna gives Quinn a lot inside. LB Dallas stuck with LVE for another year and LVE, Parson and Cox are going to be great. Next year they have Clarke to slide into LVE's spot.

Offensively Tolbert along side CD Lamb and Gallup will make Dallas forget Cooper, The TE they drafted will be a Solid TE-2 and will see how well Dallas can turn the physical speciman into a good Tackle pushing Steele for playing time.