{"id":669247,"date":"2026-01-11T16:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T16:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/669247\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T16:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T16:55:15","slug":"cowboys-now-know-their-2-1st-round-picks-in-2026-nfl-draft-after-packers-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/669247\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys now know their 2 1st-round picks in 2026 NFL Draft after Packers loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/dallas-cowboys\/news\/cowboys-now-know-2-1st-round-picks-2026-nfl-draft-packers-loss\/23db750689b0e58be415d123?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cowboys now know their 2 1st-round picks in 2026 NFL Draft after Packers loss;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cowboys now know their 2 1st-round picks in 2026 NFL Draft after Packers loss<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preferred Source by clicking here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/dallas-cowboys\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Dallas Cowboys;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Dallas Cowboys<\/a> now know where they stand.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>They have two first-round picks in the 2026 NFL Draft, thanks to acquiring an additional one in the Micah Parsons trade with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/green-bay-packers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Green Bay Packers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Green Bay Packers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And with the Packers having lost on Saturday night, that pick is now set in stone.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys hold the No. 12 overall pick from their own season.<\/p>\n<p>They now also have the No. 20 overall pick from the Packers&#8217; season.<\/p>\n<p>They have picked 12th four times. Ironically, Micah Parsons was the No. 12 overall pick in 2021. They took Tyler Book 12th in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>They also picked 12th in 1987 and 1991, when they chose Danny Noonan and Alvin Harper.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/buffalo-bills\/news\/how-josh-allen-eternal-hope-buffalo-bills-playoffs-begin\/8cf61303767c09f76321abb6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:How Josh Allen became eternal hope for the Bills as the playoffs begin;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">How Josh Allen became eternal hope for the Bills as the playoffs begin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys have picked 20th five times:<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys won&#8217;t necessarily stay in those spots. As things stand, they don&#8217;t pick again after the 20th pick until the fourth round.<\/p>\n<p>That sets up a logical trade down from one of those selections to add more assets for those middle rounds of the draft rather than have such a long layoff.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>But for now, Dallas is picking twice in the top-20, which is a great chance to land two talented young players.<\/p>\n<p>More NFL news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cowboys now know their 2 1st-round picks in 2026 NFL Draft after Packers loss originally appeared on The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[257,97365,97366,7,345,872,491,6,15,1119],"class_list":{"0":"post-669247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-dallas-cowboys","9":"tag-danny-noonan","10":"tag-dennis-homan","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-green-bay-packers","13":"tag-josh-allen","14":"tag-micah-parsons","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-nfl-draft","17":"tag-the-cowboys"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115877519311011676","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}