DALLAS COWBOYS DRAFT BOARD: Eighty-Two Team-Screened NFL Draft Prospects | Dallas Cowboys War-Room Cheatsheet | 2015 Dallas Cowboys Draft Primer

It cannot be said that The Boys Are Back readers aren’t prepared for the 2015 Dallas Cowboys draft! Ever since the catch, that wasn’t ruled a catch, we’ve been looking towards the 2015 re-tooling.

By rule, the Dallas Cowboys (and all NFL teams) are allowed to bring in upto 30 national draft prospects on “official visits” for a pre-draft look. They brought in 28 players from around the USA. On “Dallas Day” another group of prospects visited Valley Ranch … 36 players, each with local ties to the D/FW Metroplex. Additionally, the Dallas Cowboys can have “private workouts” with as many prospects as they want. This offseason, they worked out 18 prospects. Those workouts must be conducted either in the metropolitan area of the player’s residence or college campus.

All told, 82 players have been pre-screened by the Dallas Cowboys scouts, medical staff, coaches, and other club personnel face-to-face. They have been interviewed, poked, prodded, tested, and documented. There’s a very good chance we’ll hear some of those names called in a few days. Others will join the Dallas Cowboys as undrafted free agents.

The 2014 Dallas Cowboys came up a little short of the NFC title game. The offseason we’ve watched the team transform from a contender with an identity, to a team with a solid core but long on question marks. Some of the offseason losses have been addressed, actually many of them have been. Yet, questions remain. Among them …

Who replaces KR/PR Dwayne Harris on special teams?
Who replaces aforementioned tacking ace Dwayne Harris on special teams?
Can Darren McFadden replace DeMarco Murray’s productivity?
Who steps up while inconsistent CB Morris Claiborne is still under repair
Who replaces CB Brandon Carr if he’s released after June 1st?
Who’s going to provide the pass rush/sack totals that Rod Marinelli wants?
Can they keep three of these linebackers healthy and on the field for a full season?
Can the team ride on the back of Tony Romo for another year?
Is there enough trust in backups Brandon Weeden/Dustin Vaughan for another year?
Will DE Greg Hardy be conditioned physically help the team later in the year?
Will Greg Hardy drama and distractions hurt the clubs locker room chemistry?

With the NFL Draft resources below, you can easily create your own Dallas Cowboys Draft Board. I’ve prioritized most of them by positions of need … defensive linemen, defensive backs, linebackers and running backs top the list. A Dwayne Harris replacement is also an area they could address, unless they have current players in mind for that role. Depth along the offensive line isn’t a bad idea either, if there’s a guy they cherish from this class.

Personally, I’m ok with holding off another year on QB and TE positions. I do believe both of those positions should be considered strongly in the 2016 NFL Draft. That gives the Dallas Cowboys one more year to develop Weeden/Vaughan and see if young Gavin Escobar is the heir apparent to aging Jason Witten.

I’m not convinced that the coaches have enough confidence in RBs Joseph Randle (momma drama) or Ryan Williams (prolonged playing lapse) to push out Darren McFadden during spring/summer camps. It’s a little risky to rely on them, and Dunbar, in a run-by-committee approach, with or without McFadden in the mix. If they want to maintain the “bell cow’ approach that worked so well last season, one of their draft picks will have to be invested in case McFadden can’t pull it off, or if he’s injured.

Here are the eighty-two players that have either visited Valley Ranch or have been visited by the Dallas Cowboys staff:

Rank	Name	Pos.	College	Ht.	Wt.	Grade	Status
Defensive Ends/Defensive Tackles
13	Bud Dupree	DE	Kentucky	6’4	269	1	OV
34	Eli Harold	DE	Virginia	6’3	247	1-2	OV
36	Owamagbe Odighizuwa	DE	UCLA	6’3	267	1-2	OV
55	Danielle Hunter	DE	LSU	6’5	252	2	OV
87	Mario Edwards	DE	Florida State	6’3	279	3	OV
120	Frank Clark	DE	Michigan	6’3	271	4	OV
951	Octavio Gonzáles	DE	Universidad de Nuevo Leon	6’3	262	– –	DD
52	Carl Davis	DT	Iowa	6’5	320	2	OV
73	Xavier Cooper	DT	Washington State	6’3	293	2-3	PW
427	Chucky Hunter	DT	TCU	6’0	296	– –	DD
Cornerbacks/Safeties
19	Kevin Johnson	CB	Wake Forest	6’0	188	1	OV
21	Byron Jones	CB	Connecticut	6’1	199	1	OV
27	Marcus Peters	CB	Washington	6’0	197	1-2	OV
31	Ronald Darby	CB	Florida State	5’11	193	2	PW
44	P.J. Williams	CB	Florida State	6’0	194	2	OV
49	Quinten Rollins	CB	Miami (Ohio)	5’11	195	2	PW
64	Jalen Collins	CB	LSU	6’1	203	2	OV
86	Josh Shaw	CB	USC	6’0	201	3	OV
133	Kevin White	CB	TCU	5’9	183	4	DD
230	JaCorey Shepherd	CB	Kansas	5’11	199	6-7	DD
299	Tray Walker	CB	Texas Southern	6’2	191	7-FA	PW
– –	Montell Garner	CB	South Alabama	6’1	185	– –	DD
– –	Travis Lee	CB	Miles College	5’11	172	– –	PW
41	Damarious Randall	FS	ASU	5’11	196	1-2	PW
207	Chris Hackett	FS	TCU	6’0	195	6	DD
333	Sam Carter	SS	TCU	6’0	203	7-FA	DD
533	Quentin Hayes	SS	Oklahoma	6’0	189	– –	DD
– –	Lyndell Johnson	SS	Emporia State	6’3	215	– –	DD
Running Backs
14	Todd Gurley	RB	Georgia	6’1	222	1	OV
17	Melvin Gordon	RB	Wisconsin	6’1	215	1	OV
45	Jay Ajayi	RB	Boise State	6’0	221	2	DD
53	Tevin Coleman	RB	Indiana	5’11	206	2	OV
80	T.J. Yeldon	RB	Alabama	6’1	226	2-3	OV
93	Javorius Allen	RB	Southern Cal	6’0	221	3	OV
371	Marcus Murphy	RB	Missouri	5’9	198	– –	DD
471	Cam McDaniel	RB	Notre Dame	5’10	205	– –	DD
683	Joe Bergeron	RB	Texas A&M Commerce	6’0	235	– –	DD
892	Desmond Roland	RB	Oklahoma State	6’2	203	– –	DD
Linebackers
40	Eric Kendricks	LB	UCLA	6’0	232	2	OV
46	Shaq Thompson	LB	Washington	6’0	228	2	OV
51	Benardrick McKinney	LB	Mississippi State	6’4	246	2	OV
339	Gabe Martin	LB	Bowling Green	6’2	234	7-FA	OV
399	Darius Allen	LB	Colorado State-Pueblo	6’2	229	– –	PW
528	Mark Nzeocha	LB	Wyoming	6’3	232	– –	OV
688	Derek Akunne	LB	North Texas	6’0	245	– –	DD
737	Jonathan Anderson	LB	TCU	6’1	231	– –	DD
807	Stephon Sanders	LB	SMU	6’3	250	– –	DD
– –	Charles Cook	LB/S	Yale	6’3	210	– –	DD
– –	Marcus Mallett	LB	TCU	5’11	217	– –	DD
Receivers/Offensive Lineman/Special Teams/Quarterbacks
32	Dorial Green-Beckham	WR	Oklahoma	6’5	237	1-2	OV
47	Devin Smith	WR	Ohio State	6’0	196	2	OV
122	Chris Conley	WR	Georgia	6’2	213	3-4	PW
180	Ty Montgomery	WR	Stanford	6’0	221	5-6	DD
437	George Farmer	WR	USC	6’1	213	– –	OV
502	Vernon Johnson	WR	Texas A&M Commerce	6’0	196	– –	PW
546	Darius Davis	WR	Henderson State	5’11	226	– –	DD
687	Darius White	WR	Missouri	6’3	210	– –	DD
755	Ross Apo	WR	BYU	6’3	212	– –	DD
912	David Porter	WR	TCU	6’0	205	– –	DD
– –	Sam Ajala	WR	Fordham	6’1	195	– –	DD
– –	Glen Coleman	WR	Florida International	6’2	200	– –	DD
– –	DeMarcus Thompson	WR	Abilene Christian	6’0	180	– –	DD
– –	Der’Rikk Thompson	WR	SMU	5’10	186	– –	DD
– –	Cliff Murphy	TE	TCU	6’4	288	– –	DD
553	Valerian Ume-Ezeoke	C	New Mexico State	6’2	305	– –	DD
90	Daryl Williams	OT	Oklahoma	6’5	327	3	DD
135	Tyrus Thompson	OT	Oklahoma	6’5	324	4	PW
166	Chaz Green	OT	Florida	6’5	314	5	OV
191	Laurence Gibson	OT	Virginia Tech	6’6	305	6-7	PW
592	Ian Silberman	OT	Boston College	6’5	306	– –	OV
185	Jeremiah Poutasi	OG	Utah	6’5	335	5-6	PW
328	Adam Shead	OG	Oklahoma	6’4	338	7-FA	DD
– –	Visesio Salt	OG	Utah	6’2	315	– –	PW
– –	James Hairston	K	Rice	6’1	225	– –	DD
– –	Cody Rademacher	K	SMU	5’10	189	– –	DD
– –	James Power	LS	TCU	6’3	235	– –	DD
54	Brett Hundley	QB	UCLA	6’3	226	2	PW
89	Bryce Petty	QB	Baylor	6’3	230	3	DD
100	Garrett Grayson	QB	Colorado State	6’2	213	3-4	PW
140	Sean Mannion	QB	Oregon State	6’6	229	4-5	PW
291	Hutson Mason	QB	Georgia	6’2	212	7-FA	PW
318	Chris Bonner	QB	Colorado State	6’6	231	7-FA	PW