How do you drown out the sadness of hearing about your Hall of Fame tight end calling it quits? Just draft like a boss and everything will be better again.
Instead of panicking - or bailing out of the round by trading back as too often had been their history - the Cowboys trusted their draft board and took the values staring them in the face.
Connor Williams was a sliding talent. A consensus All-America tackle at Texas in 2016, he missed eight games in 2017 with a knee injury. Still, he carried late first-round grades into the 2018 draft.