{"id":868377,"date":"2026-04-17T12:39:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/868377\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T12:39:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:39:31","slug":"cowboys-mocked-to-make-massive-nfl-draft-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/868377\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys mocked to make massive NFL Draft trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a ton of chatter about the Dallas Cowboys<\/a> using their two first-round picks in the 2026 NFL Draft to move up from No. 12 and select one of the elite defenders in the Top 10.<\/p>\n

It makes sense, too. Jerry Jones<\/a> is a known gunslinger as a GM, and you can bet that extra first-round pick he has from trading away Micah Parsons last offseason is burning a hole in his pocket.<\/p>\n

Jones may want to trade up, but he’ll have to find a trade partner.<\/p>\n

Connections have been made to the Cleveland Browns<\/a>, who currently sit at No. 6. In fact, ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr. is mocking<\/a> the Cowboys trading up with the Browns. Dane Brugler of The Athletic thinks the same<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Both of those trade ideas would be Jones moving up to No. 6 in the draft, but notably, a new mock draft from PFF believes the Cowboys will find another trade partner.<\/p>\n

In this trade scenario, PFF is mocking<\/a> Dallas actually moving all the way up to No. 3 overall in the draft and trading with the Arizona Cardinals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In that mock, PFF’s Bradley Locker believes the Cowboys would select Texas Tech Red Raiders EDGE, David Bailey.<\/p>\n

“With Bailey still available, multiple teams seem likely to try to move up the board to nab him,” Locker wrote. “Arguably, no franchise is better-positioned than Dallas, with the chance to dangle extra first-round picks in both 2026 and 2027. The Cowboys did trade for Rashan Gary\u00a0and have Donovan Ezeiruaku\u00a0returning, but Bailey\u2019s 21.6% pass-rush win rate provides the team with a game-changing presence at the position.”<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDallas Cowboys poised to move up in 2026 NFL Draft<\/p>\n

Bailey would be a massive addition for the Cowboys. Last season at Tech, he notched 14.5 sacks, 19.5 tackles for loss, three forced fumbles, one fumble recovery, and three passes defended.<\/p>\n

He has the chance to be a legitimate star pass-rusher at the NFL level, and you know Jones and the Cowboys love stars.<\/p>\n

Kiper believes picks No. 12 and 20 could get the Cowboys up to No. 6. Brugler believes it would take No. 12, No. 20 and a 2027 fourth-round pick.<\/p>\n

What would it take for the Cowboys to get up to No. 3 and trade with Arizona? PFF didn’t project that, but one would imagine that it would be a massive haul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There’s a ton of chatter about the Dallas Cowboys using their two first-round picks in the 2026 NFL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,2337,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-868377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-browns","9":"tag-cleveland","10":"tag-cleveland-browns","11":"tag-clevelandbrowns","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116420094427456750","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868377","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=868377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}