Does this significantly change things for the approach on draft day?
Be careful what you wish for. Cowboys fans have been wondering when Roger Goodell would finally get around to announcing the decision on the suspension of Greg Hardy for his domestic violence incident and arrest. It finally came out, and at 10 games, it was worse than almost anyone had predicted. The only small silver lining is that the team now has an idea of the worst case scenario (pending appeal) and can plan for the draft accordingly.
Initial reaction in social media was that this would place much more pressure on the team to get a top edge rusher.