Some very productive tight ends have played for the Cowboys through the years. David LaFleur was not among them. The Cowboys used their first-round pick in the 1997 draft on LaFleur with the hope he would pick up where Jay Novacek left off. He was big, strong and a first-team All-American at LSU. He had promise. It never materialized.

The Cowboys have built a reputation as strong drafters since Will McClay took over, but the best class of Jerry’s era surprisingly isn’t from his nor Jimmy Johnson’s time at the

The Dallas Cowboys are known to struggle in the second round of the NFL Draft but they'll need to nail it in this year's edition after a very underwhelming ESPN Analytics counts with a "Draft Day Predictor" that assigns a probability value to prospects who are the likeliest to be taken at any given selection.