{"id":630471,"date":"2026-05-08T07:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/630471\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T07:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:11:12","slug":"dallas-cowboys-eagles-draft-trade-negotiation-involved-3rd-round-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/630471\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys, Eagles draft trade negotiation involved 3rd-round pick"},"content":{"rendered":"

It felt like a shocker in the moment. During the 2026 NFL Draft, the Dallas Cowboys made two trades in the first round.<\/p>\n

The first of these was shocking in a joyful sense as they moved up to select Caleb Downs, and it all happened thanks to the Miami Dolphins being willing to do business with America\u2019s Team. The Cowboys sent Miami their two fifth-round compensatory picks to move up one spot (from 12 to 11), and if you are the Dolphins you take that kind of deal because the Cowboys are of little consequence to you. They are a team from the opposing conference so even if Caleb Downs winds up panning out, it\u2019s not like it\u2019s Miami\u2019s problem directly.<\/p>\n

This is the overall line of logic that people had to a degree, then the Cowboys executed their second trade in the first round. Dallas moved down from 20 overall (the pick that they got in the Micah Parsons trade with the Green Bay Packers) three spots to 23. The Cowboys wound up taking Malachi Lawrence with the pick in question, but they picked up two fourth-round picks in the process that became Devin Moore and LT Overton.<\/p>\n

It was all thanks to the Philadelphia Eagles, though.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys originally asked for a third-round pick<\/p>\n

Everywhere you look there is a documentary about the NFL draft. ESPN released one this past Sunday that provided all sorts of insight across the league. Notably it showed us that the Cowboys, before executing their trade with the Dolphins, tried moving up to pick number 9<\/a>, but the Cleveland Browns said no thanks.<\/p>\n

A few days later the Eagles\u2019 own digital team published their own look at the draft. This one was obviously done so with a focus on their team. If you watch it, which you can do so here<\/a>, you can see in the first five minutes the conversations that they began to have with the Cowboys about moving up in the first round. The whole clip is also below.<\/p>\n

Here are the relevant takeaways in sequence:<\/p>\n

Ultimately the Cowboys swapped first-round picks and did wind up receiving 114 (Moore) and 137 (Overton) to do so. They sent the Eagles next year\u2019s seventh-round selection, but this discussion about 218 from Roseman helps shed light on why it wasn\u2019t fully understood, in the initial moments when the trade happened, whether the seventh that the Cowboys sent was this or next year. Water under the bridge, but it seems even the direct parties involved were unsure.<\/p>\n

It makes sense that the Cowboys wanted to pick up another third-round pick, but it also makes sense that Philly wanted to hold on to 98 specifically. While Dallas began Day 2 of the draft by trading for Dee Winters the Eagles also made a trade on the day in question. They sent the pick Dallas asked for, number 98 overall, to the Minnesota Vikings (along with their third next year as well) to acquire Jonathan Greenard.<\/p>\n

Good on the Cowboys for asking, though. Interestingly the last time that the teams traded with one another in the first round it did involve a third-round pick. Philly moved up from 12 to 10 during the 2021 NFL Draft to take DeVonta Smith. They sent their third-round pick to the Cowboys to do so and Dallas wound up taking Micah Parsons at that spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It felt like a shocker in the moment. During the 2026 NFL Draft, the Dallas Cowboys made two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[186178,349,99],"class_list":["post-630471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-dallas-cowboys-draft","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630471","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=630471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}