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Jermod McCoy #3 of the Tennessee Volunteers is not likely to land with the Dallas Cowboys in the NFL draft.<\/p>\n
There was a report, from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, as far back as the NFL draft combine in February noting that the Dallas Cowboys<\/a> would not take Tennessee star cornerback Jermod McCoy because of concerns over the state of his knee. Still, mock draft after mock draft penciled McCoy in at No. 12 to Dallas because he has immense talent\u2013McCoy ran a 4.37-second 40-yard dash on March 31 at his pro day\u2013and the Cowboys need cornerback help.<\/p>\n But just days before the draft, more reports about McCoy\u2019s knee surfaced. He originally tore his ACL in January 2025, and did not play at all last season. But multiple reports suggested that, despite a good showing at the pro day, McCoy\u2019s knee was still being red-flagged.<\/p>\n Tom Pelissero of NFL<\/a> Media noted that medical staffs around the league fear McCoy could require another surgery to repair one of the bone plugs in McCoy\u2019s knee. That could mean another season out for McCoy, and the Cowboys have declared themselves dead-set on getting players who can help the team immediately in the NFL draft.<\/p>\n Cowboys Passed on Jermod McCoy in 3rd Round<\/p>\n The Cowboys, as expected, passed on McCoy in the first round on Thursday. When their pick came up on Friday, at No. 92, McCoy was still on the board, but the Cowboys still did not bite, taking linebacker Jaishawn Barham<\/a> instead. Now, the Cowboys have three of the next 37 picks coming up in the fourth round, and if McCoy is still on the board, perhaps his talent is worth a gamble.<\/p>\n But Joseph Hoyt of the Dallas Morning News writes<\/a>, don\u2019t expect that to be the case. The Cowboys have steered clear of \u201credshirt\u201d situations thus far in the draft, as they said they would. And, Hoyt writes, \u201cBut what about taking a flier on McCoy,\u00a0who has knee issues<\/a>, or another talented player with potential injury concerns in the fourth round on Saturday? The Cowboys\u2019 policy on redshirts, it appears, still likely applies.\u201d<\/p>\n He quoted Jerry Jones from his Friday presser saying, \u201cWe think we\u2019re going to get players in the fourth round.\u201d<\/p>\n Cowboys \u2018Rebuilt This Defense\u2019 in NFL Draft<\/p>\n It\u2019s not a big surprise that, with three NFL draft picks in the books, the Cowboys have almost exclusively focused on the defense. That was the case in free agency, too, and Jones said he\u2019s happy with where the team is.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have been able to, as of right now, rebuild this defense,\u201d Jones said<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019ve put a newness to the system, a newness to the coaching staff. \u2026 We\u2019ve changed this defense. If it were just last year the way we played on defense, then that might not have called for this. But this is a product of three, four, five years, maybe more, of not getting where we\u2019re trying to go and be a contender.<\/p>\n \u201cIn general, when I lay my head down tonight, I\u2019m going to say, \u2018We\u2019re doing something about (fixing) the defense on this team.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n 3 Picks in the 4th Round of the NFL Draft, Then 1 in the 7th<\/p>\n The Cowboys do figure to have an interesting day on Saturday, Day 3 of the draft, because of the three fourth-round picks they have after making a deal with the Eagles<\/a> in the first round to move back from No. 20 to No. 23. After those fourth-rounders, the Cowboys do not pick again until the seventh round.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the updated look at where the Cowboys\u2019 NFL draft board stands.<\/p>\n Round 1, Pick 11:\u00a0Caleb Downs, S, Ohio State. \u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tSean Deveney<\/a> is a veteran sports reporter covering the NBA, NFL and MLB for Heavy.com. He has written for Heavy since 2019 and has more than two decades of experience covering the NBA, including 17 years as the lead NBA reporter for the Sporting News. Deveney is the author of 7 nonfiction books, including “Fun City,” “Before Wrigley became Wrigley,” and “Facing Michael Jordan.” More about Sean Deveney<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Jermod McCoy #3 of the Tennessee Volunteers is not likely to land with the Dallas Cowboys in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-265882","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265882","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=265882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRound 1, Pick 23 (from PHI):\u00a0Malachi Lawrence<\/a>, DE, UCF.
\nRound 3, Pick 92 (from SF):\u00a0Jaishawn Barham, DE, Michigan.
\nRound 4, Pick 112:\u00a0(Own Pick).
\nRound 4, Pick 114 (via PHI):.
\nRound 4, Pick 137 (Compensatory):.
\nRound 7, Pick 218 (from TEN):.<\/p>\n