One fun thing about the various mock aggregates and prominent big boards I& #39;m looking at: They all loved what the Cowboys did with their draft capital, but they had different favorite picks. https://twitter.com/john9williams/status/1254183515605827585">https://twitter.com/john9will...
PFF board& #39;s favorite use of a DAL pick (using a surplus approach I just made up) was CeeDee Lamb, followed by Tyler Biadasz.

Grinding the Mocks EDP thought Bradlee Anae was the biggest steal, then Biadasz.

Brugler& #39;s board was highest on the Anae pick, but disagreed on Biadasz.
^ This isn& #39;t accounting for the trade that led to the Biadasz pick, or the positional value of each selection. It& #39;s just the raw difference in recommended/expected draft position and where the Cowboys picked, expressed in terms of Fitzgerald-Spielberger draft values.
More on this later
my god, the sheer surplus
For the record, I liked the Eagles draft. There& #39;s a lot more to the value of a pick than where your players were expected to go pre-draft—such as positional value, etc

But it& #39;s worth noting that the Eagles first four picks were all expected to go later than where they took them.
The Cowboys ended up with 5 of the 8 biggest draft steals in the NFC East.

This is according to my (certainly flawed) method of estimating surplus solely based on expected draft position, actual draft order & Fitzgerald-Spielberger pick values.
Five NFC East selections stood out as particularly notable reaches (considering when they were taken relative to their expected draft position, priced at Fitz.-Spiel. values).

None of those reaches were Cowboys picks. Three of them were the Eagles first three selections.
I& #39;m sort of backpedaling using the word "reach" here. I see this more as an expression of tactics than pure value. Eagles either had a very different board from the consensus, or they targeted their guys to make sure they got them. Cowboys undoubtedly let the draft come to them
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