{"id":825657,"date":"2026-03-21T19:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T19:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/825657\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T19:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T19:57:15","slug":"dallas-cowboys-land-top-pass-rusher-in-new-mock-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/825657\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys land top pass rusher in new mock draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">The Dallas Cowboys could and should continue to load up on defense. That side of the ball significantly disappointed in 2025, particularly with the team\u2019s offense performing so well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Earlier, the organization added David Bailey to provide last year\u2019s anemic pass-rush. Now, it targets the second line of defense, with the versatile and athletic linebacker in Cincinnati\u2019s Jake Golday, who might just remind Cowboys faithful of a former Dallas defender.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThe Cowboys surrendered a league-high 30.1 points per game last season to completely justified double-dipping with defensive players in this first-round projection,\u201d Holder said. \u201cLinebacker was a significant sore spot last year. While Georgia\u2019s CJ Allen is graded higher on B\/R\u2019s board, Golday has better physical traits in the makings of becoming and every-down linebacker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIt wouldn\u2019t be surprising if the owner Jerry Jones sees a lot of Leighton Vander Esch, who Jones chose with the 19th pick in 2018, in the Cincinnati product.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Cowboys could and should continue to load up on defense. That side of the ball significantly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2066],"tags":[230,229,91200,257,437,2461,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-825657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-cowboys","8":"tag-cowboys","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-cowboy-mock-drafts","11":"tag-dallas-cowboys","12":"tag-dallas-cowboys-draft","13":"tag-dallascowboys","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116268934577917970","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825657","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=825657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}