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Recent history of league-wide draft successes offers insight on Cowboys’ strategies

The NFL Draft can be best described as a total crapshoot. Each team has their own strategy for how they evaluate players and their positional values, but in the end it always requires at least some amount of dumb luck. Still, trends do form over time, and the Cowboys are one team that’s received some pretty positive attention for their drafting since Will McClay took a more direct role in the process.

Recently, Bo Wulf of The Athletic conducted some research that looked at all 348 players over the last 10 years who were selected to the Pro Bowl or All-Pro team.