{"id":689,"date":"2025-04-26T04:20:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T04:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/689\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T04:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T04:20:14","slug":"2025-nfl-draft-jerry-jones-was-dancing-after-cowboys-got-a-3rd-round-steal-in-cb-shavon-revel-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/689\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 NFL Draft: Jerry Jones was dancing after Cowboys got a 3rd round steal in CB Shavon Revel Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"

Say what you will about the Dallas Cowboys, but their recent history in the NFL Draft has been pretty good.<\/p>\n

On Friday night, they grabbed a couple of defensive players who were projected to go a lot higher than they did in the NFL Draft.<\/p>\n

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In the third round the Cowboys took East Carolina cornerback Shavon Revel Jr., a player who showed up in the first round of plenty of mock drafts. He was No. 24 on the big board of Yahoo Sports’ Nate Tice<\/a>. The Cowboys got him with the 76th overall pick, which seems like phenomenal value. Revel also fills a need after the Cowboys lost cornerback Jourdan Lewis in free agency.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys were excited enough about the pick that owner Jerry Jones did a little dance afterward.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys did well, value wise, in the second round too. They took Boston College edge rusher Donovan Ezeiruaku, who was No. 31 on Tice’s big board and a potential first-round pick going into the draft.<\/p>\n

\"Shavon<\/p>\n

Shavon Revel Jr. was the Cowboys’ third pick of the NFL Draft. (Photo by Brooke Sutton\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

(Brooke Sutton via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The Cowboys didn’t address receiver or running back with their first three picks, and that’s a problem for the offense. There aren’t many playmakers after CeeDee Lamb. But the Cowboys were patient and picked off values when they presented themselves.<\/p>\n

That’s usually how you end up with a pretty good draft class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Say what you will about the Dallas Cowboys, but their recent history in the NFL Draft has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1121,257,285,7,1120,6,15,754,840,1119],"class_list":{"0":"post-689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ceedee-lamb","9":"tag-dallas-cowboys","10":"tag-donovan-ezeiruaku","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-jourdan-lewis","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-nfl-draft","15":"tag-revel","16":"tag-shavon-revel-jr","17":"tag-the-cowboys"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","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=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}