Entering the 2018 NFL Draft, the Dallas Cowboys were largely thought to need a wide receiver to replace the recently released Dez Bryant. Several NFL thinking hats went on record to claim that any pick but a wide receiver in the first round would not address the Cowboys biggest need.
Andy Benoit from SI.com panned the Cowboys actual first round draft pick, Boise State linebacker Leighton Vander Esch. In a post from April 26, 2018, Benoit wrote that Dallas’s biggest need was at wide receiver. Marcus Mosher of Bleacher Report and Lance Zierlein from NFL.