IRVING, Texas – If you need any more convincing that Jerry Jones believes the Dallas Cowboys will be contenders in 2016 then the draft gives you more proof.
The Cowboys had more pressing needs than to take running back Ezekiel Elliott in the first round with the fourth overall pick. The Cowboys had more pressing needs than to take a linebacker in the second round with the 34th overall pick.
And then there’s the move the Cowboys didn’t make that speaks more to the future than the present. Jerry Jones badly wanted to trade back into the first round to take quarterback Paxton Lynch and they would have hoped he didn’t see the field for two or three seasons.