'I knew for a fact Dallas was going to get me' NFL star playmaker adds salt to wound Cowboys are still healing from
Swinging and missing on a first-round draft pick hurts any NFL franchise. But even more so one like the Dallas Cowboys, that mostly neglects free agency and focuses solely on building through the draft. That's why a miss as big as Mazi Smith in 2023 has proven so costly for the Cowboys, who boast one of […]
Swinging and missing on a first-round draft pick hurts any NFL franchise. But even more so one like the Dallas Cowboys, that mostly neglects free agency and focuses solely on building through the draft.
That's why a miss as big as Mazi Smith in 2023 has proven so costly for the Cowboys, who boast one of the worst defensive tackle rooms in the league, hurting the defense in many levels. It's a wound the team is still healing from and it's difficult to ignore it as the Cowboys fall to 3-6 with not a lot of hope going around.
And to think Detroit Lions running back Jahmyr Gibbs just added salt into it by revealing he "knew for a fact" that the Cowboys would've picked him over Mazi had he been available at 26th overall.
"It was crazy, I knew for a fact that Dallas was going to get me at 26th if I was still there," Gibbs said on the Richard Sherman Podcast when discussing his draft process. "I didn't think I was going 12th."
While it's easy to understand the debate about picking running backs in the first round, you know if you ask any Cowboys fan if they'd swap Gibbs for Smith, they'd interrupt you mid-question to say yes like Kramer accepting coffee for life on Seinfeld.
Gibbs' comments make Ashton Jeanty theories more interesting
Now, the Cowboys might get a chance to get a running back superstar of their own next April. They are likely to get a Top 10 pick for the 2025 NFL Draft and Boise State's Ashton Jeanty is a superstar in the making.
Fans and media members are already debating whether or not it'd be a good pick given positional value and team needs, but if the Cowboys were willing to use a first-round pick on Gibbs little over a year ago, it means they're not particularly buying into the "running backs don't matter" philosophy.
A to Z Sports' Ryan Roberts mocked Jeanty to the Cowboys in his latest two-round mock draft.
