Yesterday, Marcus Mosher of the Locked on Cowboys podcast tweeted something that, as an NFL Draft fanatic, I cannot get out of my head. The implication was that the Cowboys’ 2027 first-round pick may already be obvious; yes, it’s ridiculously early, but I think I agree.
Go ahead and pencil in Texas OT Trevor Goosby in Round 1.
Top-10 talent who falls because of an injury. It seems too perfect for them.
Mosher, as you can see from the tweet above, was talking about Texas Longhorns star offensive tackle Trevor Goosby, who has been touted as one of the best prospects in next year’s draft class.
The problem for Goosby is that his 2026 campaign is now over. In Week 8 against Ole Miss, he suffered a torn left patellar tendon, which has now been successfully repaired in Dallas by Dr. Dan Cooper, the Cowboys’ long-time head team physician.
If you’ve been a fan long enough, you should see the connections here that Mosher built his tweet off of, and that I’m diving into now: this situation has Dallas written ALL over it.
Trevor Goosby Makes Perfect Sense for Dallas
(estimated 9-month recovery, on time for training camp/summer 2027)
In the last ten years alone, Dallas has spent two top-100 picks on prospects coming off knee surgeries with Dr. Cooper; those two were Shavon Revel Jr. in 2025 and Jaylon Smith in 2016.
One of the best cornerbacks in the class, but is coming off a torn ACL. His ACL surgery was performed by Cowboys team physician Dr. Dan Cooper in October.
Cooper sent a memo to all NFL teams in February saying Revel will be ready by camp.
On the general injury concern front, you can throw Devin Moore, Phil Mafah, Tyler Biadasz, Leighton Vander Esch, and Connor Williams in that bucket too. All of these guys were coming off either offseason surgery, in-season injury issues, or chronic injury concerns (LVE’s neck).
In short, not only do the Cowboys have no issue drafting guys with these kinds of backgrounds, it feels, at times, like they embrace doing it. If they can find value in a guy because of an injury, they’ll do it.
Goosby is uniquely suited to match that aspect of the Cowboys’ draft history, and more.
He’s also a Texas guy, and Jerry Jones absolutely loves that. Goosby played his high school ball in Melissa, Texas, and landed at UT over schools like TCU, SMU, North Texas, and Tulsa. His father, Michael, also played for the Cowboys for a brief time.
If you need any evidence that the Joneses love to tap into Texas talent, here are some numbers: Since 2020, 37.5% of the Cowboys’ first-round picks have been from Texas high schools; the NFL average over that same time is just 12.6%.
We also can’t forget about Dallas’s tendency to draft offensive linemen in the first round; they’ve done it three times this decade, and right tackle may be their next focus high in the draft.
Obviously, it is very early for all of this, but if the connections are clear: Goosby is the kind of player with the kind of background the Dallas Cowboys tend to target in the NFL Draft.
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