You can’t get the job done if you don’t have a plan and a blueprint. The Dallas Cowboys have a lot of holes they need to fill on the roster through a combination of free agency and the draft. Clearly both avenues for acquiring new personnel have limitations. There are only so many draft picks to be used, even with trade backs. And as anyone who has been paying even the slightest attention knows, Cowboys EVP Stephen Jones has an almost phobic aversion to using up cap space for free agents. The approach for the past several years has been to sign low cost free agents before the draft to “plug the holes” and then rely on the draft to go for higher quality talent.
A position-by-position 2022 Cowboys roster-building master plan
