Pro Football Focus

● By John Owning
The 2023 NFL Draft is a little over a month away, and the Dallas Cowboys are sitting pretty. Even though teams traditionally upgrade their roster through free-agent additions throughout March, the Cowboys primarily opted to take advantage of the NFL's trade market, sending Day 3 picks to the Indianapolis Colts and Houston Texans for veterans Stephon Gilmore and Brandin Cooks. Additionally, the Cowboys did well to retain some of their most important impending free agents — Tony Pollard, Donovan Wilson and Leighton Vander Esch — while combing through the bargain bin to find players such as Chuma Edoga to fill the rest of their ancillary needs. The result is that the Cowboys enter the draft without pressing needs, meaning Dallas can be flexible in how it attacks the draft instead of predominantly focusing on selecting players at positions of need. That flexibility can turn into myriad outcomes, but here's one potential reality: