Cowboys Top 10 Biggest Draft Successes Of The Jerry Jones Era: #1

He’s playing through the whistle, not missing opportunities. Champ.

I love rooting for the underdog, the 7th round pick who is All Pro
I think Tom Brady is the best QB ever, thats my opinion
guys like Brady and Ratliff get overlooked but look at what they have accomplised
if there was a redraft Ratliff would be a top 5 pick
I am so thankful to have the Rat, easily one of my all time favorite players

Underdrafted overperformed. Never takes a play off, never quits.

He’s got talent no one else could see and a lunch-pail attitude to never stop, never slow down, and maximize every bit of skill he has.

Mike Jenkins could learn a thing or two from Jay Ratliff.

Rat is what is right about the team sometimes. Like Miles got to start when Roy got hurt and kept the role. He got his shot when Jason got hurt and he as made the most of it. Hopefully Choice gets his shot soon and can perform……wait…what ……..he as already performed well against good defenses……..well I guess you cannot be right all the time.

thanks king Rat,love watching you play.

My list, using the PFF.com for the data, including their “CarAV” (a metric representing career value.)

I have already posted, as have others, that Mark Stepnoski’s omission is a travesty. I have him at #4, how he can be off the list with 5 pro-bowls, while Doug Free and Patrick Crayton are on just makes no sense to me. The other “forgotten man” in my view is Dexter Coaxley – 3 PB’s and 9 years as a starter. The last couple weren’t with the Cowboys, but all his PB years were.

If we are rating the DRAFT, then Ron Stone with 3 Pro Bowls from around the same spot as Bradie James surely has to be there. Now he did absolutely zero with Dallas so as a practical matter I have omitted him, but that was more an issue with the coaching than the draft.

So who comes off? I really like Doug Free, and I am confident he will be a mainstat, but its way too early to have him in there. And its not like he was a 7th rounder. Patrick Crayton was a great return for a 7th rounder, but he was barely a starter for most of his time.

Rnd Pick Player AP1 PB Yrs Strt CarAV G
3 69 Jason Witten 2 7 7 68 127
7 224 Jay Ratliff 1 3 4 43 82
3 70 Erik Williams 2 4 8 72 146
3 57 Mark Stepnoski 0 5 12 69 194
7 173 Leon Lett 0 2 5 41 121
3 65 Dexter Coakley 0 3 9 65 155
7 196 Brock Marion 0 3 10 57 182
4 85 Tony Tolbert 0 1 7 61 144
12 320 Larry Brown 0 0 5 29 95
4 103 Bradie James 0 0 6 44 126

4 96 Ron Stone 0 3 9 51 173
7 216 Patrick Crayton 0 0 3 31 91
4 122 Doug Free 0 0 1 12 33

Can anyone advise how to fix? I’ve looked on the site but couldn’t find any help files to assist.

Jay’s one to be considered for top spot. Depends on the weight accorded the determining factors by each individual. It’s a judgment call, an opinion.

Overall, not a bad list. Just plain wrong.

And I say that in jest and not, as we’ll all have our own takes on who’s missing, the why’s and all the rest. But it was an entertaining trip down memory lane, despite the wrong turns the path took. Whoops, there I go again saying wrong when I should say opinionated.