When news first broke that Jason Witten was retiring, it caught many by surprise. After all, it was the morning after the first round of the NFL Draft, and many of us were focused on all the good players still on the board that the Cowboys might take. While the tight end position was already a bit of a need, the sudden retirement of Witten caused some to think Dallas should draft a tight end ASAP. Between Penn State’s Mike Gesicki and South Dakota State’s Dallas Goedert, there were two highly talented pass-catching tight ends available at the start of the second round.
How Dalton Schultz will fit into the Cowboys 2018 offense
