"A few fans kept repeating the same idea: Trade the second first-round pick, move out of 25 and pick up a 2nd and 3rd. It didn't matter whether they liked the players I mocked at 14 or 25. It didn't matter how the board fell. The loudest reaction was that Dallas should automatically turn pick 25 into more draft capital. When I pulled up the draft value chart, the numbers told a very different story."
"Here are the Cowboys' actual values from the draft value chart: Pick 14 - 1100 points Pick 25 - 720 points Pick 114 - 66 points Pick 154 - 29.8 points Pick 178 - 19.8 points Pick 179 - 19.4 points Pick 221 - 2.3 points Pick 233 - 1.0 points Total draft capital: 1958.3 points Most of the fan debate centered specifically on pick 25, the 720-point draft asset that everyone seems to want to move."
Fans frequently proposed turning the 25th overall pick into early second- and third-round selections. The draft value chart assigns pick 25 a value of 720 points amid the Cowboys' total 1,958.3 points across all picks. Top-of-round second and third picks are valued much higher on the chart, but those premiums are typically paid only by teams moving into the draft's top half, often for quarterbacks. No team realistically parts with the top of R2 and R3 for pick 25, so converting pick 25 into that specific package is unlikely despite fan enthusiasm.
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