The Dallas Cowboys had a very busy first round of the 2026 NFL Draft. Fireworks began when the team moved up one spot from number 12 overall, shout out Miami Dolphins, to select Ohio State safety Caleb Downs. It is still surreal that this is a real sentence.

While the excitement from that will take a while to fade, it had to be contained for a little bit as the Cowboys were up again at 20 overall… until they weren’t. Dallas traded again and this time moved down, amazingly with the Philadelphia Eagles.

As the dust from the first round is now settled we wanted to put in perspective everything that Dallas lost and everything that they received.

This is fantastic work for the Cowboys. On one level you could look at things as them turning a pair of fifth-round picks into fourth-rounders. That they also drafted Caleb Downs and Malachi Lawrence makes things all the more sweet.