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The Dallas Cowboys didn’t draft one of the top safeties in the draft. To add insult to injury Maliek Collins Jersey Stitched , they’ll now have to play against four of the top safeties during their upcoming season."In one of the most unlikely turn of events, the Dallas Cowboys didn’t draft a safety with their second-round pick. We totally expected them to. With official visits of college safeties lined up at the door, it looked like a forgone conclusion that a safety was on the way. Johnathan Abram, Taylor Rapp, Chauncey Gardner-Johnson, and Juan Thornhill were all projected late-first/second round type players. The chances one of them making it seemed high, and when the Cowboys were finally on the clock - a grand total of three of them were available. Hooray, safety at last! Right?Nope, gotcher nose.The Cowboys got our nose. It may have appeared like they worked some slight of hand to pull one over on us, but the gist of it is - they valued another player more. And that player is defensive tackle Trysten Hill. Last year, the Cowboys had eight different wide receivers in for official pre-draft visits, the most of any other position. They also had eight additional receivers in for private workouts. The top dogs: Calvin Ridley, D.J. Moore, Courtland Sutton, and Christian Kirk - all met with the Cowboys on some level. While the team had a big need and took a serious look at the position, there was no way they were passing up on Leighton Vander Esch if he was available. And he was. A similar plan was likely in place for safety this year, but the Cowboys weren’t going to pass up on a player like Trysten Hill. The term “best available” is thrown around a lot Youth Rico Gathers Jersey , but the word “best” is so subjective, it’s hard to say with any certainty if the team stayed true to that approach or not. Some suggest Hill was a “need” pick, but I’d profess that safety is a bigger need. Hill fits the “best” description perfectly if you have a defensive coordinator that puts a premium value on quick-burst under tackles that can rush the passer. Hill may have not been the best available of many, but he very well could be the best available for the Cowboys.What’s done is done, but that won’t stop people from following the career of Juan Thornhill since he was the alternative choice at pick 58. Thornhill was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs so we’ll have to wait a while to see him play the Cowboys, however that is not the case with many of the top safeties from this draft class. Of the six safeties the team brought in for official 30 visits, half of them were drafted by teams the Cowboys will play against this year. Another of the top ones were also taken by an upcoming opponent, meaning we’ll get to see four of them in action this year.Darnell Savage, Round 1 (21st overall) - drafted by the Green Bay PackersThe Packers have hit the reset button at the safety position after once fielding both Ha Ha Clinton-Dix and Micah Hyde (both have been Pro Bowlers). This offseason, they’ve upgraded by not only taking the top safety selected in the draft in Savage, but also signing on of the top free agent safeties in Adrian Amos. Savage was gone before the Cowboys were on the clock, but they’ll still have to see him this season.The Cowboys will play the Packers in Week 5.Taylor Rapp, Round 2 (61st overall) - drafted by the Los Angeles RamsAfter losing Lamarcus Joyner in free agency to the Oakland Raiders, the Rams added the Washington Huskies strong safety late in the second round. Rapp will join recently signed safety Eric Weddle in the Rams secondary. Rapp slid in the draft because of poor workout numbers, including a 4.7 forty-time. It will now be the Rams and not the Cowboys who have taken a chance on him and only time will tell if that pays off.The Cowboys will play the Rams in Week 15.Will Harris, Round 3 (81st overall) - drafted by the Detroit LionsThe Lions got one of my favorite value picks of the draft in cornerback Amani Oruwariye, who was snagged in the fifth round. The team also selected Boston College’s Will Harris in the third round. Initially Rico Gathers Jersey Stitched , many of us thought Harris would’ve been the Cowboys pick if he slid to 90, but after hearing about how high of a grade they had on Connor McGovern, Harris to Dallas in the third round was never going to happen.The Cowboys will play the Lions in Week 11.Chauncey Gardner-Johnson, Round 4 (105th overall) - drafted by the New Orleans SaintsThe Saints had hardly any draft picks this year thanks to trades for Marcus Davenport, Teddy Bridgewater, and Eli Apple. But they did a good job making what few picks they had count, including the top safety on my board in Florida’s Gardner-Johnson. It’s unclear what the deal is, but teams passed on CGJ as if he was Bo Callahan, allowing the unlikable safety to fall all out of the top 100. Based on talent alone, Gardner-Johnson looks like an absolute steal, but we’ll have to see if those red flags materialize into something unfavorable.The Cowboys will play the Saints in Week 4 on Sunday Night.Do regret passing up on a safety? If so, which one do you wish the Cowboy wouldn’t went after? The Kansas City Chiefs trudged into the locker room after their first loss with Patrick Mahomes at quarterback, a streak that goes back six games to his Week 17 start last season.Here's the thing, though: There was no sense of defeat in Gillette Stadium on Sunday night.Instead, the Chiefs seemed downright emboldened by the way they fought back from a big halftime hole against New England. And if not for a litany of injuries to their defense and another clutch game by Tom Brady and the Patriots offense, which drove downfield in the final minutes to set up a winning field goal in their 43-40 victory, the Chiefs might have kept their winning streak going."We got down Youth Byron Jones Jersey , we put ourselves in a huge hole and I'm just proud of my team and how we fought to get back in the game," Mahomes said. "We had the lead at one point and then we ended up not coming out with the win but just that fight, it's something you can carry on and to the rest of this season."All of which is true, of course. But the way the Chiefs performed under the lights in New England may have been more than just the stereotypical moral victory.Mahomes threw two interceptions in the first half, when Bill Belichick's defense seemed to have the young quarterback confused. The Chiefs' running game was going nowhere and a defense missing lead pass rusher Justin Houston and its top three safeties to injuries looked like a sieve.It was 24-9 at the break and could have been a whole lot worse.But for the first time in his budding career, Mahomes not only was forced to make massive in-game adjustments but did so successfully. He wound up throwing four second-half touchdown passes, three of them to Tyreek Hill, and that same offense that scuffled through the first 30 minutes and found itself in a deep hole piled up 31 points over the final two quarters.In fact, the Chiefs' offense was rolling so impressively in the second half that they may have scored their final touchdown too quickly. Mahomes found Hill over the middle, and one of the fastest players in the NFL turned up the sideline for a 75-yard score that knotted the game 40-all.Two problems with that: There was still 3陆 minutes left and Brady was on the other sideline.The Patriots moved seemingly at ease against the Chiefs' porous defense, getting into position for Stephen Gostkowski to knock t

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