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The Cowboys’ top draft pick is everything he was billed to be.

During the NFL's Thursday Night Football season opener, the Dallas Cowboys lost a heartbreaking, gut punch game to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Since that loss, the Cowboys have learned that they will be without four key players for varying — but substantial — amounts of time. Let's review them one-by-one.

Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images We haven’t even had the OTAs at this point, so coming up with predictions about this year’s edition of the Dallas Cowboys is a bit fraught with peril. These are admittedly highly speculative. Feel free to bookmark this article so you can mock it in the future. However, the possibility of mockery will not deter. Jaylon Smith and Leighton Vander Esch will both be starters - sort of Look for them to line up for the first defensive snap of games, with Micah Parsons also on the field. But their usage will be different. Dan Quinn is talking about how there ...

Three different Dallas Cowboys 53-man roster projections Three different roster projections provide an early look at where the roster battles might happen on the 2021 team. Photo by Rich Graes fourthsle/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Cowboys are barely done with the rookie minicamp, and already we have the first roster projections for the 2021 Cowboys. And we’re going to compare three of those projections today. One from Jon Machota of The Athletic, another from John Owning of the Dallas Morning News, and a final one from David Howman from BTB. For the most part, NFL teams have a pre...

With a contract year looming for up to 34 Cowboys, Dallas has decisions to make in keeping them beyond 2021 34 Cowboys are playing on expiring contracts. Which of the players stay with the team into 2022? Photo by Elsa/Getty Images When the Cowboys declined to pick up the fifth-year option on Leighton Vander Esch’s contract a few weeks ago, they ensured their 2018 first-round pick could hit unrestricted free agency in 2022 absent a new deal this year. That decision upped the total number of players playing on expiring contracts this year to 34. Those 34 players are a motley crew of soon-t...