The key to success in the NFL draft is really quite simple: Draft good players, and let other teams take the bad ones. Of course, figuring out how to do that is perhaps the biggest challenge faced by all teams. In recent years, the Dallas Cowboys have been doing better than most of their competitors, particularly in the first round.
As fans, we are caught up in trying to figure out who the Cowboys will take. We are obviously handicapped by not having the extensive staff and huge amounts of data that the team does, but it doesn’t stop us.