{"id":247720,"date":"2026-04-13T15:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/247720\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T15:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:58:15","slug":"benefits-to-trading-after-the-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/247720\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits to trading after the draft?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy: It&#8217;s not a bad strategy by any means. The Cowboys did it just last year with the wide receiver position and George Pickens, after the Steelers traded for DK Metcalf about a month before the draft. I think the general thought process right now is if the Cowboys are going to make a trade for any position, it&#8217;ll be linebacker. What&#8217;s different about linebacker this year compared to wide receiver in 2025 is the Cowboys had CeeDee Lamb on the roster and in mind last year. This time around, the Cowboys don&#8217;t have a player as reliable in the linebacker room as DeMarvion Overshown will need to answer the injury question mark looming over him, and Shemar James is going into year two after an up and down rookie season. There isn&#8217;t as much depth at the position. That begs the question, how aggressive is Dallas going to be in adding to that room? Whereas they really only needed one player at wide receiver in 2025, does the aggressiveness change because they may need more than one linebacker? Only time will tell, but this year&#8217;s draft class is good enough for Dallas to be able to get one with one of their top 100 picks, so waiting for a team that may be willing to move on from a veteran after the draft could very well be in play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tommy: It&#8217;s not a bad strategy by any means. The Cowboys did it just last year with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,1090,3486,6349,3592],"class_list":{"0":"post-247720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news","11":"tag-news-all-news","12":"tag-news-mailbag","13":"tag-news-patrik-walker","14":"tag-news-tommy-yarrish"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247720","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=247720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}