Thanks to their trading of Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers this week, the Dallas Cowboys are currently set to have multiple first-round selections in back-to-back NFL drafts for the first time in quite a while. We are saying that they are set to have them because by the time it comes down to making selections, it is possible that Dallas could have moved around. You know how that goes.
Assuming the Cowboys make multiple picks in the first round it will mark the first time that they do that in almost
two decades. You obviously saw the title of this post and know that the last time this happened was 2008.
The Cowboys picked 22nd and 25th in that NFL Draft and took Felix Jones (Arkansas) and Mike Jenkins (South Florida), respectively, with the selections.
In case you are curious, the first pick in question (22 overall) came to Dallas by way of the Cleveland Browns during the first round the year prior. Cleveland jumped up to Dallas’ spot to take Notre Dame’s Brady Quinn and sent their 2008 first-rounder as part of the package to do so.
As noted the Cowboys will theoretically have multiple picks in the first round in consecutive seasons which gives them the opportunity to add a lot of firepower to the future of the team. While neither the Felix Jones nor Mike Jenkins picks worked out wonderfully, we shouldn’t read into the quality of those selections as they were basically a generation ago. Much has changed for the Cowboys and their draft process since.
Still, it is quite interesting how long it has been since Dallas took home more than one player in the first round of an NFL Draft. All we have to do is wait about seven months to see how it goes.
