Cowboys Accomplish Aces for the Future, Demography Jaylon Smith at No. 34

The Dallas Cowboys took Ohio State active aback Ezekiel Elliott at No. 4 all-embracing in Thursday's aboriginal round, a affluence aces abnormally if Florida State arresting aback Jalen Ramsey, who could anon advice a anemic secondary, was there for the taking.

Then on Friday night, with his aggregation acrimonious aboriginal in the additional round, Jones and the Cowboys called a amateur who
will not even be in compatible in 2016, and it's alien if he'll be accessible in 2017.

Notre Dame linebacker Jaylon Smith was the team's aces at No. 34; Smith suffered a adverse abrasion on New Year's Day in the Fiesta Bowl, disturbing his ACL and MCL and reportedly adversity accident to his peroneal assumption as well, which leads to a action accepted as "drop foot". Not all players acknowledgment from "drop foot."

Smith advised in at 223 pounds at the combine. That was down 20 pounds back his surgery, according to NFL Network's Mike Mayock. Mayock aswell said that Smith could be a Luke Kuechly-type appulse amateur at his best.

While it charcoal to be apparent if Smith will acknowledgment to his pre-injury akin of play, his aisle will be managed by a actual accustomed face: Dr. Dan Cooper, the Cowboys' aggregation physician, performed Smith's anaplasty in January, and has been administering his accretion anytime since.

Smith, at a bowling alleyway with ancestors and accompany in his hometown of Ft. Wayne, Ind., was acutely affecting as he was on the buzz with Dallas brass, and bankrupt down as he accepted a woman we accept is his mother.