Morning After - Dallas takes Tyler Booker
Question The Position Value, But Cowboys Are Getting The Top Guard in this Draft.
The issue with having a lot of needs on draft day and not enough picks to go around is pretty obvious.
No matter what you do and who you take, there will be some significant push-back. Those are the sins that still must be paid for and when you struggle on draft day in 2023 and 2024, there were always too many issues to go around.
Then, the perfect scenarios of finding a delightful trade back or a franchise skill player did not materialize. But the clock ticks, and a decision needs to be made. Some would also point out that, as bad as the Cowboys were last season, the late surge of winning 4 of 5 down the stretch only served to put them in draft “no man’s land,” as they finished in the lukewarm middle of the league at 7-10. Not bad enough to land a big fish, not good enough to matter.
But these are the cards that were dealt. So, in response, the Dallas Cowboys decided to go get the best football player they could find—even if it was not a blinking-light need relative to that list we have talked about all spring long.
Wide Receiver
Running Back
Defensive Tackle
Cornerback
They had three picks to try to fix four problems, but maybe they can add picks and get it done – but everything would need to fall correctly.
Instead, in a bit of a LeeRoy Jenkins play, the team secured the best guard in the draft. Alabama’s Tyler Booker was one of the easiest evaluations in this 2025 draft from a tape perspective.
He is a mauler and a problem in a phone booth to deal with. I assume Dallas is about as fortified as can be in terms of the guard-center-guard combos up front to deal with what is required this fall. What I didn’t know when watching that tape is what a solid human he appears to be in terms of a team-leader and a lover of ball, but there are legions of witnesses that swear by him and his work at the SEC level.