It was discouraging this week to hear Dallas Cowboys The owner Jerry Jones proclaims that, although he now has $ 54 million in ceiling space, he I was not trying to fill the voids from the list via the free agency. Cowboys fans spent all 2024 in discomfort on the lack of movements of the free agency, then were whipped in a fury on Jones’ “All-in” statementThis concerned how the team was not going to engage more money in a list of Mike McCarthy, not that they were going to open the pocket book. They pushed their token while depending on the cards they had already dealt with.
But fans who take things at their nominal value may not see myriad in ways to interpret Jones’ words. Jones talked about the signing of their own players – a story as old as time itself in the lexicon of cowboys – but also using their draft choices. The fans made fun of this, because Dallas has only three choices in the top 100 and no choice of fourth round, sending this to Carolina for Wr Jonathan Mingo. Cowboys need more than three runners to be competitive and get an immediate stars set on the three first round choices is a ridiculous hypothesis.
But these quotes which make the headlines and the rounds lack a very key piece of what Jones said. Cowboys have used professions in the past to get immediate help for veterans, and cowboys opening the salary room could be used to do so again.
“Just about draft time, the choices are becoming very premium at the moment. Jones said (via dallascowboys.com). “You could call this for a good time, because the project, the round choices to be able to use it this year, can be high.”
Two years ago, the cowboys acquired WR Brandin Cooks for a choice of sixth round and CB Stephon Gilmore for a fifth. The two players were an integral part of a team that won 12 games in 2023. Dallas has four fifth round choices and two sixth round choices. Recent professions have seen the star players pretend to be similar compensation, and the NFL will be expected to see several of these types of movements in next week while the doors of the free agency will open.
Wr Deebo Samuel went from San Francisco to Washington for a fifth round. Wr Christian Kirk arrived from Jacksonville to Houston for a seventh in 2026. There are many veterans talents who can be acquired which would not count like free agents.
This article originally appeared on Cowboys Wire: 2025 Free agency: Dallas Jerry Jones Cowboys can rather seek to trade
