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First Take

Hour 2: Did NFL Draft Make Cowboys NFC Contenders?

First Take

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4.05.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

First Take resumes with Cowboys positivity! Jerry came through again with an A+ 1st round, monumentally boosting his subpar defense. Could you see them in the NFC championship game next year? (0:00) Then, RC loves Love. Best player available theory won out, and the Notre Dame star ended up in Arizona! (13:35) Next, the contending Rams chose Stafford's successor in round one. Should the future HOFer view this as a slight? (22:15) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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per repair. Our NFL draft coverage continues tonight on ESPN, ABC and the NFL network at

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7 Eastern, 4 Pacific with the second and third rounds, also available on ESPN Deport the NFL network at 7 Eastern 4 Pacific with the second and third rounds.

0:38.5

Also available on ESPN Deportes, Disney Plus, Hulu, and the ESPN app, or you can listen to it on ESPN radio.

0:46.0

Back to the draft last night, though. The Dallas Cowboys had a very busy opening night of the draft,

0:50.5

but it started before Dallas was even on the clock. According to Adam Schaefter, George Pickens will sign his franchise tag tender and will

0:57.6

make $27.3 million this season.

1:00.6

Pickens is coming off a season that he's set career highs in catches, yards, and touchdowns

1:05.6

in.

1:05.8

It also opens up the possibility of Pickens potentially being traded now.

1:10.1

So the Cowboys last night didn't take long to make a move in the draft,

1:13.6

moving up one spot to the 11th overall pick.

1:16.5

And with that pick, the Cowboys selected Ohio State Safety Caleb Downs.

1:20.4

Then Dallas traded the 20th pick to the division rival Eagles for the 23rd pick.

1:25.5

With that, they selected Edge, Malachi Lawrence, marking the first time since 2005. The Cowboys drafted multiple defensive players in the first round. Marcus Spears knows a thing or two about that draft, right? Hello, and good morning, Marcus Spears, who joins us right now from Pittsburgh, along with Ryan Clark. What's up, my people? What's up, my people? What's up, R.C. and Stephen A. Shay, I know it's the big draft day, but I got, I saw, I saw something that made me so happy this morning on TV because usually it's me on this end of the spectrum. I saw Stephen A. Break out into a full sweat talking about the New York Knickerbockers.

2:03.6

And he, we had to actually get him napkins. We had to get him napkins to wipe off his forehead.

2:12.6

Now for years, RC, you and I have heard about, I've been in the gym, I'm 10% body fat.

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He did the testing.

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