The Dallas Cowboys have typically done their best team-building work through the NFL draft. With the 2024 edition just next week, we’re going to look back on the last 10 years of Cowboys drafts and pull out some of the highlights and low points. Today, we’re looking at Dallas’ last decade of drafting and ranking their work in the first round.
First-rounders are up against the highest expectations, and paradoxically sometimes the most challenging circumstances in which to thrive. Just ask so many quarterbacks who’ve been expected to turn around the worst teams in football, or supposed stud defensive end getting no help from a bad secondary.