It had been a long time before last year that the Dallas Cowboys entered an NFL Draft without a first-round pick. In fact it had been a decade. The Cowboys trading for Amari Cooper definitely brought back memories of Roy Williams in more ways than one, and the hope was immediately that the ripple effect would be radically different. Thankfully Cooper, now the richest wide receiver in Cowboys history, performed much differently than Williams, but the receiver in question wasn’t the only important piece.
When Dallas traded for Roy Williams in 2008, part of what they gave up was their 2009 first-round pick.