BPA is a great strategy for the Cowboys, but it highlights why free agency is important.
The Dallas Cowboys proved through their first two picks of the 2025 NFL Draft that they really value drafting the best player available to them. Tyler Booker and Donovan Ezeiruaku are pretty solid proof of that.
Drafting premier athletes with high levels of character is not a bad thing. It is hard, if not impossible, to knock that strategy.
Acknowledging this as truth, probably no one among us who did a single mock draft did so without selecting a running back or wide receiver through the first two picks. Sometimes the board falls the way the board falls and you have to be not only able, but willing to adapt and adjust to it. You can argue that the Cowboys have done that through their second pick.
Both Cowboys selections so far, RG Tyler Booker and EDGE Donovan Ezeiruaku, are quality, instant difference-makers.
Cowboys still have voids at RB1, WR2 and CB2/CB3 (and DT, always). They have one Day 2 selection, then nothing until Round 5. Lotta work left, not much draft ammo.
— Saad Yousuf (@SaadYousuf126) April 26, 2025
Booker and Ezeiruaku will make the team significantly better and do so right away, but again running back and receiver are positions that are in sore need of help. An argument can be made there at those spots that the team barely has enough NFL-quality starters to play a game.
To be fair to the overall process, Jerry Jones did mention right after the team’s pre-draft press conference that the Cowboys had two “substantive” trades that they were working on. Maybe that is when the shoe is going to fall.
The draft is not a failure because the Cowboys did not address these positions of need with their most premium assets, but in a perfect world there is a serious lesson learned from all of this. Letting top talent fall into your lap is a wonderful strategy. Jumping at opportunities that present themselves to you is incredibly wise.
But this is why we have long said that the Cowboys have to use free agency to a serious degree. There was a literal improvement on things there this offseason, but you cannot only add surface-level players and expect the draft to line up in the proper way that you need to save you.
Maybe that is the wisdom that the team ultimately draws from how the first two rounds shook out.