This is the Dallas Cowboys.com draft show.

Your war room for insider news and draft analysis from deep within the confines of Cowboys

headquarters at the Star in Frisco.

Now your hosts, Votch Lombardi, Nick Harris, Bobby Belt, Tommy Yarrish,

and Kyle Yeomans. Today is Tuesday, January 6th, and we are 107 days away from the 2026 NFL draft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Welcome in to the first episode of the draft show presented by Miller Light.

We've got our new crew for the 2026 draft process,

and we are excited to investigate and educate all the way through the NFL draft,

providing wall-to-wall coverage coming up in late April. We've got Votch Lombardi, Nick Harris, Tommy Yaris, and Bobby Belt. I'm Kyle Yeoman's with Chris Beam, working everything in the back. Glad you're with us. Gentlemen, welcome back to draft season. Feels like a long time coming, but hey, we are back and we are ready to roll nick harris welcome

back bud yeah thank you man i am excited to roll uh we haven't been on the show since the micha

parsons trade obviously and just having the idea of two first round picks this year

there's going to be so much fun that we're going to be able to talk about all the possibilities

now we might be doing nothing on day two but day one we're going to have a lot of fun guys. That day two, Vach, is going to take forever. Well, Vach isn't going to be here. Vach is going to find, Vach is going to go outside and vacuum the carpet. I'm going to ask if y'all need snacks or something like that. I don't want to just sit around and talk at the Cowboys, don't picks, but we got a job to do. We got a job to do.

The part of the job in this thing is to, you know, kind of study 250-some-odd-old people.

So we're going to come here with no picks on day two and be miserable. But, boy, day one's going to be a party. And that's the thing is you've got to kind of evaluate differently, Bobby, when you have such a big gap in terms of what you're picking in because Cowboys picking twice

in the first, then you don't have a second, you don't have a third. Do you still have to evaluate

those guys, but it's in a different light than you normally have in the past. Yeah, I mean,

you've got to kind of evaluate it more generally. But I mean, the other aspect there is just you've got

to evaluate them from the perspective of Dallas. Do they take something with that second first round pick? Do they try to move back? Do they add capital? Do they do some of that? They've moved back a couple different times in recent years. And so, I mean, you just got to have be braced for that as well, just the idea of like, hey, are they going to be picking early in the second round instead of late in the first are they going to have a second move back because i think they definitely by the time the draft rolls around if they have not you know done a heavy lifting in free agency they're going to need extra capital on draft day no that's absolutely right and i think as it stands right now you can't look at this team and with all the holes that they have especially on the defensive side of the ball and say they're two first round picks away from being better. Sure, free agency is going to play a big part in it. But as it stands right now, I don't think you can hurt whatsoever from moving back, whether it be you trade your first round pick to move back later in the first round and pick up a third or something like that. Any way you can get a day two pick, I think, is going to benefit you, especially in this

class where at least early on, it seems like you don't have as much of the high-end talent

and you do have kind of a larger pool of second, third round guys that can be plus players

for you but are probably not going to be guys that you want to use that early capital on. I'm glad you mentioned the free agency point because I think you can be plus players for you but are probably not going to be guys that you want to use that early capital on.

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