{"id":379700,"date":"2026-07-20T15:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/379700\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T15:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:43:14","slug":"mailbag-barham-the-steal-of-cowboys-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/379700\/","title":{"rendered":"Mailbag: Barham the steal of Cowboys&#8217; draft?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy: No, you aren&#8217;t wrong at all to think that. He very well may be. I think it may take some time to get there, and will especially take some time on task at linebacker or as a pass rusher if Dallas chooses to move him around, but he has a lot of very promising traits and the exact kind of mentality you want from a defensive player.<\/p>\n<p>Barham will start off a the linebacker spot, and I think that&#8217;ll be where you see his physicality pop the most. He can cover a lot of ground too, so it&#8217;ll be intriguing to watch how he goes about marrying those two things together at this level. For right now, I think I would maybe tab Malachi Lawrence as a potential surprise steal of the draft even though he was a first rounder, but Barham definitely has the potential to prove me wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tommy: No, you aren&#8217;t wrong at all to think that. He very well may be. I think it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,1090,3486,6349,3592],"class_list":["post-379700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-news-all-news","tag-news-mailbag","tag-news-patrik-walker","tag-news-tommy-yarrish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379700","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=379700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}