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Who is your favorite defensive prospect in this year’s NFL Draft?
With the 2025 NFL Draft now a week away (April 24-26), positional rankings and big board's for all 32 NFL teams should all be pretty close to finalized. That means all the guesstimating and speculation that has taken place over the past several months will finally be clarified when we learned the new home of these incoming rookies.
The Dallas Cowboys still have a lot of work to do to upgrade their roster and the draft may be the difference between having a successful season or not. While they need to make a few upgrades still on the offensive side of the ball, defensively there may not be a single position that couldn’t stand being upgraded.
Here is an an effort at Top 10 positional rankings for the defensive players in this year’s draft class. Any one of these prospects ranked in the Top 10 could end up being selected by the Cowboys with picks 12, 44, or 76.
The Cowboys seem to be in pretty good shape with Micah Parsons, Marshawn Kneeland, Dante Fowler, and Sam Williams headlining the defensive end position, but that shouldn't stop them from trying to further upgrade things. This position is surprisingly deep this year, but don't rule out them drafting one early.
The Cowboys did a good job solidifying the 3-tech position by re-signing Osa Odighizuwa and bringing in Solomon Thomas via free agency, but work still needs to be done at the 1-tech. Upgrading the interior of their defensive line may be a top priority for them in the draft, fortunately the 2025 draft class is a pretty deep one.
The Cowboys signed Jack Sanborn and traded for Kenneth Murray to upgrade their LB position, but may or may not be done trying to upgrade things. That's especially true with DeMarvion Overshown’s 2025 availability in the air right now. The LB draft class isn't a very deep one, so Dallas may need to draft one early if they want a potential starter this year.
