It is officially draft week in Frisco as the Dallas Cowboys gear up to make their currently scheduled seven draft selections along with putting together an undrafted free agent pool that will largely dictate their offseason additions after a quiet free agency period.
Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones, along with son and executive vice president Stephen Jones and head coach Mike McCarthy, spoke in front of the media today to discuss what this week could look like in a draft that has them picking at No. 24 in the first round and six more times across the weekend.
However, don’t put those numbers in stone just yet. With the potential to trade back being talked about more and more, Jones sees an opportunity to pick up some middle-round picks – an area where they pick just once between No. 87 and No. 216 – in a first-round trade.
“It’s very likely to have an opportunity to do that,” Jerry Jones said. “Given the right people left on the board, or the wrong people gone off the board, and the right trade…Really, there’s a lot of variables here as to whether you’d go up or down. Obviously, we’d like to have some mid-round picks.”
