Jerry Jones is reasonably content material with the Dallas Cowboys split-up techniques with a 2024 fourth-round select in change for Trey Lance, regardless of if the fee used to be hefty to procure the previous Incorrect. 3 total select. Jones does put a top class on quarterbacks, evidenced from what he noticed when Cooper Hasten crammed in for Dak Prescott ultimate season (the Cowboys don’t win 12 video games with out Hasten taking part in smartly). 

Why now not pluck a probability on a participant like Lance who has upside? In fact, Jones likes making headlines so he needed to pluck issues a step additional when protecting the business he made. 

Which brings up Jalen Hurts, who’s the franchise quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles. As soon as once more, Jones reiterated the Cowboys had pastime in drafting Hurts to again up Dak Prescott again in 2020 and manufacture him — alike to what they’ll do with Lance this moment. 

“I think had we been able to draft [Lance] with next year’s four [fourth-round pick], the kind of talent he was in this draft. Like I just told you, two years ago we were looking at the Philadelphia quarterback,” Jones stated, via WFAA in Dallas. “However having a look at him, had he fallen to us there, we might have drafted him. 

“It is our plan when we can — but it very seldom happens — to have someone of a high-level quality to be there at the right place with our draft pick. This one worked, so we’re excited about it.”

The Cowboys did have their alternative at Hurts, two choices earlier than the Eagles decided on him at Incorrect. 53 total. They took Trevon Diggs at Incorrect. 51, which has labored out rather well. Jones handed on Hurts for some other asset on protection, one that has 17 interceptions in 3 seasons and made two Professional Bowls. 

“We talked about him a lot,” Cowboys head lecturer Mike McCarthy stated of Hurts again in 2020. “We had a great virtual interview with him. Very impressive young man. Went back through his history both at Alabama and Oklahoma. We thought of him very highly in our building.”

Hurts used to be within the Cowboys’ grab. They handed — and the then select for Dallas used to be at Incorrect. 82. Did Jones suppose Hurts used to be getting to fall that some distance?