Dallas Cowboys draft picks, grades 2025: NFL draft order, workforce wants, mock drafts as Tyler Booker goes No. 12

FRISCO, Texas —  The Dallas Cowboys’ 2025 offseason concerned far more exercise than the 2024 offseason but it surely’s unclear how significantly better these strikes made them. 

Following an injury-plagued 7-10 marketing campaign, they moved on from Mike McCarthy and promoted offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer to be their subsequent head coach. Then, they let edge rushers DeMarcus Lawrence and Chauncey Golston, cornerback Jourdan Lewis, broad receiver Brandin Cooks, working again Rico Dowdle and backup quarterback Cooper Rush stroll in free company. Dallas’ largest splash in free company concerned signing edge rusher Dante Fowler Jr., who returns to the Cowboys (the place he suited up in 2023), after erupting for a team-high 10.5 sacks for the NFC finalist Washington Commanders in 2024. 

Different free company signings included working backs Javonte Williams and Miles Sanders on one-year offers, trades for former first-round picks in linebacker Kenneth Murray and Kaiir Elam and buying and selling for a uncooked, strong-armed backup quarterback Joe Milton III from the New England Patriots. It felt like extra depth chart back-filling than making upgrades, however perhaps that is what wanted earlier than giving extra younger guys legit snaps as soon as once more in 2025 following one other 12 months closely leaning on the draft to degree up the roster. 

So how will the Cowboys proceed to beef up their roster within the 2025 NFL Draft with a watch towards a postseason return? Let’s check out what Dallas must prioritize, the picks of their arsenal coming into the draft and evaluation of their picks to this point. 

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Dallas Cowboys workforce wants

• Workforce wants: WR, CB, DL, RB, IOL, LB, S
• Notable additions: RB Javonte Williams, DE Dante Fowler Jr., DL Solomon Thomas, G Robert Jones, CB Kaair Elam, LB Kenneth Murray, QB Joe Milton
• Notable losses: DE DeMarcus Lawrence, CB Jourdan Lewis, RB Rico Dowdle, WR Brandin Cooks, DE Chauncey Golston, G Zack Martin (retirement) 

Dallas Cowboys 2025 draft picks 

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Spherical 1, decide 12: Tyler Booker, IOL, Alabama

To some outdoors the Cowboys’ constructing, the number of Alabama Crimson Tide All-American offensive guard Tyler Booker comes as a shock. That is not a case contained in the constructing. CBS Sports activities requested a workforce supply in the event that they had been stunned by the Booker choice, and their reply was “no” with a chuckle. Booker affirmed that sentiment on his convention name Thursday.

“Proper after the [30] go to, they referred to as my brokers and advised me how properly I did,” Booker stated on a convention name on the Cowboys’ facility. “Then simply being on the go to, we actually related. We had a vibe like we ere two entities who’re actually enthusiastic about soccer, who actually love soccer. … God has set it for me to go to the top of the NFL, wish to play for America’s workforce, just like the Dallas Cowboys are a nationwide model. It’s totally highly effective to be part of a model like that. God has set for me to be there, and I am tremendous excited to get to work.”

Booker allowed simply two sacks on 979 profession pass-blocking snaps at Alabama, and he simply turned 21 years outdated on April 12. When requested about what he would say to Cowboys followers who had been disillusioned and longing for a unique place like I broad receiver, Booker had a robust message.

“For one, I might say activate the tape as a result of for 3 years at Alabama, I straight up dominated,” Booker stated. “I used to be a dude on the College of Alabama. I used to be that man within the SEC for 3 years straight, and it takes quite a bit for an individual to be that. So first, activate the tape.” 

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Nonetheless, it will likely be attention-grabbing to see if the Cowboys can have higher luck flipping a first-round offensive lineman to a unique facet of the road. They took Tyler Guyton within the opening spherical of the 2024 draft and moved him to left deal with regardless of him being a proper deal with for Oklahoma. CBS Sports activities requested Booker about flipping from left guard to proper, and he did not have any doubt about making that transition work. 

“It is simple for me,” Booker stated of switching from left guard to proper guard. “As my [Alabama offensive line] coach [Eric] Wilford would say, ‘It is sleepy as a result of you are able to do it in your sleep.’ That is what he would say. My freshman 12 months so my rotation was the starters would get the primary two collection, after which I am going to get two collection at proper guard. In order that’s one thing I am snug switching sides, and that will not be an excessive amount of of an issue for me. I am simply excited to get to work. Wherever you placed on the soccer subject, I will be able to get after [it]. I will be able to go. It does not matter if I am at guard, proper guard, proper deal with, middle, slot receiver, working again. It does not matter. I will provide you with my all. … My demeanor is I am at all times making an attempt to make you give up, and I try this by being violent, nasty from the primary snap to the final snap, and I by no means let up. There’s solely a lot a person can take.”

Booker will probably be flipped from left guard to proper guard to interchange the lately retired Zack Martin with two-time Professional Bowler Tyler Smith having the left guard spot on lock. 

“I am tremendous excited to come back in and simply be a Cowboy. I watched Zack Martin quite a bit rising up, and he is a Corridor of Famer,” Booker stated of succeeding Martin because the Cowboys’ proper guard. “However I feel I might be doing me and the group a disservice by going there, making an attempt to be Zack Martin. I will be Tyler Booker each day I am there. I will study the components of Zack Martin that made Zack Martin so nice. I will add that to Tyler Booker. I am not going to go in there making an attempt to be Zack Martin. I will go in there being Tyler Booker and study from Zack Martin.”

Proprietor and basic supervisor Jerry Jones stated at his pre-draft press convention on Tuesday that he felt the offensive line was extra impactful within the run recreation than the working again carrying the soccer. This decide definitely doubled down on that faculty of thought. Booker is able to get to work for Jones and new head coach Brian Schottenheimer. When Booker met Schottenheimer, Dallas’ new head coach was jamming to “I Wanna Dance With Someone ” by Whitney Houston, which helped the 2 join rapidly.

“I simply thought that was humorous, however like that confirmed that he was authentically him. Enjoying for a coach that’s authentically him the entire time, I actually get pleasure from being in an surroundings like that.”