While choosing Felix Jones over Rashard Mendenhall initially had me on edge and flew in the face of the "best player available" plan of action that so many champion and so few adhere to, I have to say that I really think Jerry Jones has acquired a keen sense of awareness on draft day.  While Mendenhall might have been the more complete player, Jones better fits our system, and the Titans were obviously hoping the speedy back would fall to them, as they ended up reaching for Chris Johnson at 24.  I think Jerry Jones knew at once that the crop of players available at 22 would allow him to trade up from 28 and grab a second player with a solid round one draft grade, and he did a good job of feeling out the team needs of the next few teams on the board to ensure the Cowboys ended up with the players they coveted.  Houston would have almost surely taken Mike Jenkins at 26 and ended up reaching a full round for Duane Brown to fill a team need.  The Chargers then took Antoine Cason at 27, a player I had hoped the Cowboys would target at 28, making the Mike Jenkins pick seem all the better.

In round two, I sat quietly hoping that one of the WRs would fall, and as they were plucked off the board, one by one, I wondered if perhaps we should have tried to trade up to grab one.  But I really like the Bennett pick, as I think he had the most potential of any of the TEs in this draft, and he could really come into his own in Garrett's various two TE sets.  As many have said, if he goes to Miami instead of A&M, he is almost certainly viewed as the next great Miami TE, and had he stayed in school another year, even at A&M, he almost certainly would have been a first round pick.  I think he can come in and make more of an impact this year than any other player available at 61, and he only recently turned 21, so there is a lot of potential, both physically and mentally, left in him.

Overall, a very solid day one.  I would love to see someone like Andre Caldwell or Earl Bennett fall to the Cowboys in round three, but that may be too much to ask.  A more realistic target might be Tyvon Branch, a collegiate CB who projects as a safety at the next level.