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Scouting New Dallas Cowboys LB Jaylon Smith

The Dallas Cowboys selected Notre Dame linebacker Jaylon Smith with their second round (No. 34 overall) selection on Friday night. Find out more about him below:

Height, Weight: 6-foot-2, 223 pounds

Rankings: Scout.com ranks Smith as the No. 12 overall player on the board, and the No. 2 linebacker on the board.

The skinny: Smith started three years at Notre Dame, spending his freshman year as a part-time starter and spending the past two seasons as a 100-plus tackle performer in the Irish defense. Smith was selected as a consensus All-American last season and won the Butkus award, the nation's top linebacker award, at both the college and high school level.