{"id":868800,"date":"2026-04-18T01:03:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/868800\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T01:03:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:03:29","slug":"2026-nfl-draft-dak-prescott-expects-2-great-draft-picks-maybe-something-exciting-from-dallas-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/868800\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NFL Draft: Dak Prescott expects ‘2 great draft picks, maybe something exciting’ from Dallas Cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"

Next week, when the 2026 NFL Draft gets underway from Pittsburgh, the Dallas Cowboys have two picks in the first round. One is their own and the other is from the Green Bay Packers thanks to the Micah Parsons<\/a> trade.<\/p>\n

Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott<\/a> thinks the franchise will add two \u201cgreat\u201d picks in the draft. But he also said \u201csomething exciting\u201d could come along, as well.<\/p>\n

Dallas has come up in rumors as a potential trade candidate, and ESPN\u2019s Mel Kiper Jr. went so far as to project a move up in his last mock draft<\/a> earlier this week. Prescott admitted he doesn\u2019t know much more than anyone outside of the front office, but said Draft Day will be exciting no matter what happens.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited about everything we\u2019ve done up to this point,\u201d Prescott said ahead of the Children\u2019s Cancer Fund Gala in Dallas<\/a>. \u201cI expect two great draft picks, maybe something exciting. I don\u2019t know any more than anybody else. So if there\u2019s movement, that\u2019d be cool, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always an exciting night. I don\u2019t think anybody ever knows what to expect. I know that we\u2019ll add some great players, I trust in the front office and all that they\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cowboys rumored to be eyeing trade up in 2026 NFL Draft<\/p>\n

With six days to go until the 2026 NFL Draft, the Cowboys currently hold the No. 12 and No. 20 overall picks in the first round. Multiple reports indicate Dallas could be eyeing a trade up, though. ESPN\u2019s Jordan Reid said last week that two players could be targets<\/a> for the Cowboys: former Ohio State<\/a> safety Caleb Downs<\/a> and former Miami<\/a> pass rusher Rueben Bain Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cTrading up continues to be a possibility, especially if there\u2019s a player they have high on their board who backslides a tad,\u201d Reid wrote. \u201cSafety Caleb Downs (Ohio State) and edge rusher\u00a0Rueben Bain Jr. (Miami) are believed to be players whom the Cowboys would maneuver for, as Dallas reportedly sees both as instant-impact game changers on defense.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his final two-round mock draft released this week, though, Mel Kiper Jr. had the Cowboys moving up to take former Ohio State linebacker Sonny Styles<\/a>. He made quite an impression at the 2026 NFL Scouting Combine and skyrocketed up the board as a result.<\/p>\n

Regardless, there\u2019s plenty of chatter about how Dallas could add to its defense. It will surely be a storyline during the 2026 NFL Draft, which gets underway April 23-25 in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Next week, when the 2026 NFL Draft gets underway from Pittsburgh, the Dallas Cowboys have two picks in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066],"tags":[230,12817,229,257,2461,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-868800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-cowboys","8":"tag-cowboys","9":"tag-dak-prescott-11-haughton","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-cowboys","12":"tag-dallascowboys","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116423019995447186","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868800","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=868800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}