{"id":245692,"date":"2026-04-12T00:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T00:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/245692\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T00:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T00:40:15","slug":"dallas-cowboys-fans-make-known-their-preferred-1st-round-draft-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/245692\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys fans make known their preferred 1st-round draft strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s always a question when the draft comes along. Without specific knowledge of how the first round of the draft will actually go, fans discuss the best way for a team to us its first-round draft pick(s). It\u2019s a strategy question that can involve many factors. The roster. Where the first-round pick falls in the pecking order. How many picks the team has to use. Etc.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Dallas Cowboys come into the first round armed with two picks at number 12 and 20. That makes this draft and unusual one for the team as it\u2019s pretty rare to have two; the Cowboys have theirs courtesy of the Micah Parsons trade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We asked you to weigh in on three broad strategies the Cowboys could take on draft night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It wasn\u2019t a runaway victory, but the idea of trading down and picking up more picks was the clear winner in our poll with 47%. Staying put was a decent second with 34%. The one thing a large majority of fans don\u2019t want to do is to trade up for a top defender.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Which option did you take and how do you feel about these results?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s always a question when the draft comes along. Without specific knowledge of how the first round of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,7011,10091,104,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-245692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-cowboys-draft","10":"tag-dallas-cowboys-odds","11":"tag-dallas-headlines","12":"tag-dallas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245692","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=245692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}