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2019 class in review: Cowboys trusted their draft board and went for the best players still available

FRISCO -- If you paid attention to the Cowboys' draft haul over the weekend, you know this to be true: the team has seen the light.

That's not necessarily an endorsement for the spanking new, eight-member class. Time always tells. It may be required with this group, devoid of a first-rounder, more than others of late.

Rather, the Dallas front office kept using a catchphrase to describe why it ended up with certain players.

"We're getting to the end of our draft," head coach Jason Garrett said of the final pick, Oregon edge rusher Jalen Jelks, "and he's just sitting there like a blinking red light.