Already wanting forward on the 2025 NFL Draft in November wasn’t on the bingo card of lots Dallas Cowboys followers heading into the season. Nevertheless, sitting at 3-7 with out Dak Prescott for the rest of the season, the draft would be the lone brilliant spot of a really irritating season for Dallas. The Cowboys are presently projected to have the quantity 9 choice within the draft. They are going to be selecting within the high half of the draft for the primary time since they chose Micah Parsons within the 2021 draft.
Because it will get nearer to April, lots of of mock drafts will come out and draft tales will come out concerning the curiosity that the staff has in sure prospects. Nevertheless, one school star is already throwing his title within the hat for the Cowboys to contemplate with their first-round choose.
Boise State RB Ashton Jeanty has been nothing wanting spectacular this season in school soccer. In simply 10 video games the junior has 256 carries for 1,893 speeding yards and 26 touchdowns. Regardless of taking part in in opposition to a loaded defensive field almost each snap, he’s averaging a staggering 7.4 yards per carry. He’s arguably the only real purpose that Boise State is 9-1 and has an actual alternative to be within the first ever 12-team school soccer playoffs.
When requested this previous week about the place he wish to be drafted, Jeanty made it identified that the Cowboys could be a fantastic match.
“If I can script it – my household’s all in Texas. The entire connections, the entire relationships, I simply really feel that will be the proper metropolis to play in.”
This isn’t the primary time that Jeanty has acknowledged the Cowboys as a fantastic match. In a livestream earlier this season, Jeanty talked about that he may very well be a ‘hometown hero’ if chosen by Dallas in April.
The final school star who overtly talked about eager to be a Cowboy heading into the draft was Micah Parsons. The Cowboys made his want come true, and the remaining is historical past.
There is no such thing as a doubt that Jeanty would make the Cowboys immensely higher within the run recreation. His presence would drive the opposing protection to respect the Cowboys potential to run the ball, making Dak Prescott’s job a lot simpler and opening up alternatives for CeeDee Lamb and the remainder of receiver room.
The query isn’t about Jeanty’s expertise or his slot in Dallas, it’s if the Cowboys could be keen to draft him as early as they must. Jeanty is a first-round expertise and plenty of followers imagine that operating again is simply too simple to exchange to spend a premium choose on one. The final time the staff drafted one within the first spherical was Ezekiel Elliott with the fourth general choose in 2016. Elliott instantly elevated the Cowboys as a staff and led the league in speeding his first season within the league. It will likely be fascinating to see if the Cowboys imagine Jeanty might have the same influence, or if they are going to proceed to miss the place.
