Dallas also selected Kansas State offensive lineman Cooper Beebe and Notre Dame linebacker Marist Liufau.
Western Michigan defensive lineman Marshawn Kneeland runs a drill at the NFL football scouting combine, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, in Indianapolis.When you look at Dallas’ Day One trade with Detroit, the Cowboys got two offensive linemen for the price of one. That has to be a win. But even in the era of devalued offensive linemen, the notion that the Cowboys’ starting running back next fall will be perhaps a fifth-round pick or Royce Freeman or Rico Dowdle or even Physical, physical, physical.
Picking up Cooper Beebe at No. 73 — with a pick the Cowboys didn’t even have when the draft began — is big. Chances are he will be the team’s starting center on opening day. The addition of Marshawn Kneeland and Marist Liufau on defense adds size.Even if there hasn’t been a run on the position, the Cowboys surely can’t expect to get the guy they want in the compensatory phase of the fifth. This feels like a missed opportunity.