{"id":608650,"date":"2026-04-27T04:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/608650\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T04:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:33:16","slug":"cowboys-dispute-report-that-steelers-were-angered-by-trade-down-with-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/608650\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys dispute report that Steelers were angered by trade down with Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cowboys rained on Pittsburgh\u2019s draft parade on Thursday night, by trading out of the No. 20 spot and allowing the Eagles to draft receiver Makai Lemon at a time when the Steelers had Lemon on the phone.<\/p>\n

A report emerged that the Steelers weren\u2019t happy<\/a> with the Cowboys for giving the pick to the team that plucked Lemon. On Saturday, the powers-that-be in Dallas addressed that claim.<\/p>\n

Via Jon Machota of The Athletic, Cowboys executive Stephen Jones said, \u201cThat\u2019s not right<\/a>.\u201d Cowboys owner and G.M. Jerry Jones added, \u201cNot at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to get on their bad side,\u201d Jerry Jones said. \u201cI\u2019m sorry if they\u2019re mad. But, boy, I\u2019ll tell you what, we\u2019ve had it happen to us a bunch of times. It [was] traded right out from under us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jerry Jones explained that the Cowboys traded up one spot in round one with the Dolphins to avoid being jumped by someone else for safety Caleb Downs. That\u2019s how the draft works. All\u2019s fair. There\u2019s no reason for the Steelers to be upset. If they really wanted Lemon, they should have traded up to No. 19 or higher.<\/p>\n

The draft is a free for all. A Battle Royale. Every team for itself. If you get jumped by a team that trades up, the last team to be pissed at is the team that traded down.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how the draft goes. Anyone who thinks otherwise doesn\u2019t understand how the draft works. And if Steelers owner Art Rooney II is upset with Jerry Jones, Rooney shouldn\u2019t be.<\/p>\n

Our guess, with all due respect to the report that the Steelers are upset, is that the Steelers are embarrassed by the fact that their effort to draft Lemon became a public spectacle. But they aren\u2019t \u2014 and shouldn\u2019t be \u2014 upset with the Cowboys for exercising their absolute right to trade down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cowboys rained on Pittsburgh\u2019s draft parade on Thursday night, by trading out of the No. 20 spot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-608650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}