{"id":242830,"date":"2026-04-10T00:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T00:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/242830\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T00:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T00:35:07","slug":"could-the-cowboys-draft-texas-tech-lb-jacob-rodriguez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/242830\/","title":{"rendered":"Could the Cowboys draft Texas Tech LB Jacob Rodriguez?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the primary areas the Dallas defense struggled last season was in forcing turnovers. The Cowboys finished third-to-last in the NFL in takeaways last year with just 12. Less than one per game.<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be convenient if there were a &#8220;turnover-generating machine&#8221; they could target in the first round?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-tech-red-raiders\/2026\/03\/26\/jacob-rodriguez-nfl-draft-texas-tech-pro-day-dallas-cowboys\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Tech&#8217;s Jacob Rodriguez<\/a> might be just that, says\u00a0Dallas Morning News Cowboys insider Joseph Hoyt, and the Cowboys were out in full force at the Red Raiders&#8217; pro day.<\/p>\n<p>In his latest draft preview video, Hoyt weighs the merits of the Cowboys targeting Rodriguez with their 20th overall pick, and whether the linebacker could help Brian\u00a0Schottenheimer&#8217;s quest to reverse the Cowboys lousy turnover differential from last season.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t see the video? Try turning off your adblocker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the primary areas the Dallas defense struggled last season was in forcing turnovers. The Cowboys finished&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[113,27,29,28,89124],"class_list":["post-242830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tp-nfl-draft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}