With two picks between Nos. 12 and 20 overall, the Cowboys have legitimate ammunition entering Thursday.
Dallas isn’t afraid to use it to scroll – either up or down the board. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said Wednesday they have received calls from other teams interested in their draft pick and are open to a potential trade.
“We’re doing business,” Jones explained to reporters. “You could imagine making a call now and making a trade. Picks or players, you could imagine. That hasn’t usually been our experience. It has to happen when a team becomes imperative to have a player within reach with where their pick will be. Certainly, the nature of having an extra first-round pick lends more faith to them, or one of the options here.
Cowboys general manager Stephen Jones said it is not a requirement for the Cowboys to keep their two first-round picks and that there is a scenario where they could move down and acquire another Day 2 pick just outside the top 32. Dallas does not have a second-round pick.
“It can work both ways,” Cowboys general manager Stephen Jones added, via NFL Network’s Jane Slater . “You can improve your team going back … Sometimes more is better than one.”
Trade talks usually heat up during the draft, and Dallas made it clear in its pre-draft press conference that it was ready to pick up the phone.