NFL Network’s Peter Schrager has put out his first mock draft of the offseason, just days before the real thing kicks off in Kansas City. Cowboys fans scrolling through the Good Morning Football host’s picks will find themselves groaning repeatedly as prospect after prospect who has been linked to Dallas pre-draft gets taken off the board, with each of the Cowboys’ divisional rivals snatching away one of their main targets.
Schrager’s pick for the Cowboys is a name that hasn’t been discussed much at No. 26, at least outside the building. (Schrager does say, though, that his mock selections are based on what he’s hearing from his sources around the league.) In this mock, the Cowboys take a clearly dynamic playmaker who does more than one thing well. And while he may seem very similar to a star who’s already in the building, there’s a Cowboys connection that just may give this young man an inside track to putting a star on his helmet.
With the 26th pick, Schrager sends Alabama running back Jahmyr Gibbs to Dallas.
Many have predicted the Cowboys to go running back in the first round, but most have them taking Texas rusher Bijan Robinson on the off-chance he falls that far. Schrager, in fact, has Robinson coming off the board 10th overall, to Philadelphia, where he’ll become a problem for the Dallas defense to contend with twice a year.
If Robinson is gone by 26, many believe the Cowboys would look at another position entirely. Tight end and wide receiver are seen as areas where Dallas could use more help, but in Schrager’s mock, the Commanders select Utah tight end Dalton Kincaid at 16, and the Giants scoop Boston College receiver Zay Flowers with the pick just before the Cowboys go on the clock. Both of those players are also among the favorites who have met with Dallas.
Gibbs, though, has experts somewhat divided. An electricifying rusher who’s also a high-volume pass-catching weapon, he’s most commonly compared to Alvin Kamara. One scout has likened him to Marshall Faulk. Gibbs himself believes his game is a mix of Christian McCaffrey and Jamaal Charles.
All of whom are elite company. But for reasons he can’t help, the just-turned 21-year-old is projected to still be there late in the first and possibly even fall into the second round of the draft.
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Says Schrager:
“The Cowboys have an incredibly strong track record when it…
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