Coach Marlier's Dallas Cowboys Scouting 2025 Pre-Draft & Free Agency 2024 Season Observations through Week 10

Offensive Priorities:

QB Room

Retain QB Prescott on new contract offering as veteran.

Draft QB to succeed Prescott

If possible, retool current backup QBs with trades and with new signings to upgrade position depth and effectiveness.

RB Room

Retain RB Dowdle and RB Luepke

Release RB Elliot, RB Cooks, and RB Vaughn if possible, to upgrade for position depth.

Draft RB

Pick up veteran RB upgrade in free agency for insurance.

WR Room

Retain WR Lamb off new contract, WR Turpin and WR Tolbert.

Evaluate WR Mingo in Free Agency trade pickup as number 2 WR.

Release or trade WR Cooks if possible.

Draft number two WR to threaten Defenses to help WR Lamb.

TE Room

Retain TE Ferguson and TE Spann-Ford

Release Luke Schoonmaker or trade if possible.

Develop TE Fant

Draft or get TE in free agency for insurance.

OL Room

Retain T Guyton in moving him to RT, Move Tyler Smith to LT and Retain C Beebe.

Trade or release Zack Martin and RT Steele as they are in regression.

Draft and/or pick up two veteran OG's free agency if possible.

Defensive Priorities:

DL Room

Retain and sign DE/LB Parsons as a priority signing. Retain DE Kneeland for development and retain Veteran DE Lawson for DE Depth.

Trade DT Mazi Smith. Trade DE Lawence or release him.

Address poor DT play and upgrade in the Draft and or Free agency for better run Defense and push.

Draft DE War Daddy to complement DE/LB Parsons to replace DE Lawence.

LB Room

Retain LB Overshown, Liufau and Veteran Kendricks for depth. Serviceable depth LB Clark.

Use DE/LB Parsons situationally at Sam and Will alternating beside LB Overshown in 42 Fronts.

Draft MLB to succeed Veteran LB Kendricks

DB Room

Retain DB Digg's, DB Bland, S Bell and Nickel DB Lewis

Start S Bell in 2025.

Release or trade S Hooker and S Wilson. Hooker does not make impact plays. Wilson is a coverage liability.

Draft needs are Safety upgrades and serviceable DB depth upgrades in free agency.