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Charting the Cowboys ability to draft efficiently, a key to excelling in the draft

By Michael Strawn

The Dallas Cowboys have a reputation for being a team that drafts well. Since Will McClay became involved in the team’s draft day decision-making the Cowboys have been widely lauded for quality drafts. But do the on-field results live up to the reputation?

Lucky for us, some of the advanced analytics guys at Football Outsiders have done some heavy lifting and figured out a pretty rational weigh to measure such things. Benjamin Ellinger has contributed a column at FO that looks at ten years of drafting from 2010 to 2019.