It is not hard to find a mock draft that has the Dallas Cowboys taking Boise State running back Ashton Jeanty at number 12 overall. Generally. we always reach a point in the draft process where a target becomes very well-connected to the Cowboys, but that tends to happen much closer to draft time. Given who Ashton Jeanty is and who the Cowboys have been, people have been drawing the line between them for a few months already and we are still only in February.
When you add to this mix that the Cowboys have a head coach now in Brian Schottenheimer with a history with running the ball, and what the league looked like this past season, the math continues to check out at every step of the process.