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The idea of any team drafting the best player available when they are on the clock is a bit of an exaggeration. In a perfect world a given NFL team would select the absolute best player available and have that line up with their top need, but things are rarely perfect. More often than not NFL teams have a general plan of what they want to walk away with and do their best to marry the idea of the best player available with their most pressing needs. History shows this to be the case much more often than not.

Consider the last Dallas Cowboys offseason that felt like, well (gestures around), this one. In 2022 the Cowboys cut La’el Collins, saw Randy Gregory leave in free agency and traded away Amari Cooper. It just so happened that their first three picks were Tyler Smith, Sam Williams and Jalen Tolbert. Totally a coincidence, right?

With the idea of going purely off of best player available properly contextualized it is worth taking a look at what the biggest positional needs on the roster are with the draft right around the corner.

We are starting off by cheating a bit, but in our defense we do not technically know yet how the Cowboys view this situation. If they view Tyler Smith as a tackle then guard is immediately the top priority. If they view things through a lens where Smith is a guard then tackle is an even larger need than guard in the previous example. We are talking several underlines and exclamation points.

If the Cowboys had to go play today their line would likely look something like this: Chuma Edoga, Tyler Smith, Brock Hoffman, Zack Martin and Terence Steele. In case you missed it, Edoga is returning on a one-year deal. If Smith was the tacklebthen maybe either Edoga or T.J. Bass would be the guard.

It feels as locked as possible that Dallas is going to address this situation early on in the draft and perhaps often as well.æ ki