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The Cowboys need to add a wide receiver talent in this draft, but how they go about it is important.
The Dallas Cowboys must come out of the 2025 NFL draft with a good wide receiver. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to convince you that the team spun its wheels when trying to find a quality complementary receiver for CeeDee Lamb. In recent years, the team has used the draft, free agency, and even trades to find the missing piece, but each time, they have come up short.
If you looked back over the last several years, you might be surprised to see just how much the Cowboys have struggled with this. In each of the last eight seasons, the team has had a completely different player finish as the WR2. Not one duplicate!
What is interesting about the above list is that it highlights how ineffective the team has been at assembling their WR group during this span. Even the three years of quality WR2 play depict multiple circumstances when the team was clearly caught off guard.
The Cowboys have a star receiver in Lamb. He’s locked up for the next four years and should continue to produce at a high level. But as the last few seasons have shown us, Lamb is not enough. The team must have a secondary receiver who can pose some level of threat for the defense.
The team has Jalen Tolbert on the roster, who is entering the last year of his rookie deal. He is coming off a much-improved season, but his time in Dallas is likely coming to an end soon. The front office also acquired Jonathan Mingo at the trade deadline last year, but like Tolbert, he’s been essentially invisible in his first two years in the league. There is nothing about either of these guys that would lead anyone to believe that they can be a quality WR2.
So, for the Cowboys to find answers, they must look to the draft. That appears to be their focus. If you look at their pre-draft visitors thus far, four of their top ten ranked players are wide receivers. Not only does it appear they are looking at receivers, but they are doing so early as the players on this list are all first-round candidates.
If the team is serious about upgrading wide receiver, there’s a good chance we see them select a pass-catcher on Day 1. But then the question is, which one?
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