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Every year in early April, the Cowboys are allowed to bring in up to 30 high-profile (usually), national draft-eligible players for official pre-draft visits. These “Top 30” visits do not involve any workouts, they are strictly meet-and-greets where the team can get a better feel for the players and the medical staff can conduct more thorough medical checkups, but the players do not work out for the team. Many of these official visits took place over the last week, but the Cowboys have until April 18 to conduct all their Top 30 visits.
The Cowboys can also bring in as many draft-eligible local prospects (players who went to high school in the Dallas/Fort-Worth metropolitan area or attended TCU, SMU, or North Texas) as they like for visits and workouts during “Dallas Day”, a one-day event in April which took pace on Friday.
Additionally, the team can have private workouts with as many prospects as they want, as long as these workouts are conducted either in the metropolitan area of the player’s residence or on the player's college campus.
Like all other NFL teams, the Cowboys don’t release an official list of the players they have official visits with, players they invite for “Dallas Day”, or players they've had private workouts with. That means it's left to us to piece together which players they are bringing in. You'll find all 30 official Top-30 visitors in the table below.
Cowboys "Top 30" pre-draft visitors per 4/19/18 | |||||
Unit | Player | Position | School | Proj. Round | Brugler Rank |
DL | Harold Landry | DE | Boston College | 1 | 13 |
Vita Vea | DT | Washington | 1 | 27 | |
Taven Bryan | DT | Florida | 1 | 29 | |
Da'Ron Payne | DT | Alabama | 1-2 | 33 | |
Nathan Shepherd | DT | Fort Hays St. | 2 | 55 | |
Arden Key | DE | LSU | 2-3 | 68 | |
Da'Shawn Hand | DT | Alabama | 2 | 73 | |
Breeland Speaks | DE | Mississippi | 3-4 | - - | |
WR | Calvin Ridley | WR | Alabama | 1 | 11 |
D.J. Moore | WR | Maryland | 1 | 14 | |
Courtland Sutton | WR | SMU | 1-2 | 37 | |
James Washington | WR | Oklahoma State | 2-3 | 65 | |
Antonio Callaway | WR | Florida | 4-5 | - - | |
Maurice Ateman | WR | Oklahoma State | 5 | - - | |
Daurice Fountain | WR | Northern Iowa | 5-6 | - - | |
Malik Earl | WR | Missouri State | -- | - - | |
OL | James Daniels | OC | Iowa | 1 | 17 |
Mike McGlinchey | OT | Notre Dame | 1 | 28 | |
Kolton Miller | OG/OT | UCLA | 3-4 | 94 | |
Cole Madison | OG | Washington State | 5 | - - | |
Desmond Harrison | OT | West Georgia | 6-7 | - - | |
LB | Rashaan Evans | LB | Alabama | 1 | 25 |
Leighton Vander Esch | LB | Boise St | 1 | 26 | |
Darius Leonard | LB | South Carolina State | 3-4 | 100 | |
Others | Nyheim Hines | RB | NC State | 3 | 79 |
Terrell Edmunds | S | Virginia Tech | 3 | 90 | |
Kyzir White | S | West Viginia | 3-4 | - - | |
Tarvarius Moore | S | Southern Miss | 4 | - - | |
Ito Smith | RB | Southern Miss | 6-7 | - - | |
Tracy Walker | S | La.-Lafayette | 7-FA | - - |
Here are all the players we know of so far that have worked out for the Cowboys on Dallas Day:
"Dallas Day" Participants 4/7/18 | |||||||
Draft Scout Rank | Name | POS | College | Proj. Rd. | |||
24 | Connor Williams | OT | Texas | 1 | |||
149 | DeShon Elliott | S | Texas | 4-5 | |||
161 | Trey Quinn | WR | SMU | 5 | |||
245 | Justin Lawler | DE | SMU | 7 | |||
291 | Maea Teuhema | OG | Southeastern Louisiana | 7-FA | |||
297 | Matt Pryor | OT | TCU | 7-FA | |||
306 | Chris Warren III | RB | Texas | 7-FA | |||
341 | Nick Orr | S | TCU | 7-FA | |||
358 | Drew Brown | K | Nebraska | FA | |||
370 | Brad Lundblade | OC | Oklahoma State | FA | |||
382 | Ranthony Texada | CB | TCU | FA | |||
421 | Patrick Morris | OC | TCU | FA | |||
423 | Travin Howard | LB | TCU | FA | |||
441 | Sione Teuhema | DE | Southeastern Louisiana | FA | |||
445 | Shane Tripucka | P | Texas A&M | FA | |||
493 | K.J. Smith | DE | Baylor | FA | |||
500 | C.J. Johnson | OLB | East Texas Baptist | FA | |||
-- | Jason Hall | S | Texas | FA | |||
-- | Quan Jones | WR | Baylor | FA | |||
-- | Tejan Koroma | OC | BYU | FA | |||
-- | Mason Gentry | DT | SMU | FA | |||
-- | Kenny Hill | QB | TCU | FA | |||
-- | Austin Schlottman | OL | TCU | FA | |||
-- | John Diarse | WR | TCU | FA | |||
-- | Ty Slanina | WR | TCU | FA | |||
-- | Chris Lacy | WR | OSU | FA | |||
-- | Richard Lagow | QB | Indiana | FA | |||
-- | De'Vante Kincade | QB/WR | Grambling | FA | |||
-- | Del'Michael High | WR | Tarleton State | FA | |||
-- | Evan Brown | OL | SMU | FA | |||
-- | Raymond Epps | TE | SMU | FA | |||
-- | De'Andre Brown | RB | Abilene Christian | FA | |||
Not qualified for 2018 draft | |||||||
2017 UDFA | Matt Davis | QB | SMU | -- | |||
2017 UDFA | Dane Evans | QB | Tulsa | -- | |||
2017 UDFA | Jerod Evans | QB | Virginia Tech | -- | |||
2017 UDFA | Skyler Howard | QB | West Virginia | -- | |||
2017 UDFA | Seth Russell | QB | Baylor | -- |
And finally, here's the list of players the Cowboys reportedly have had private workouts with:
Private workouts per 4/19/18 | |||||
Draft Scout Rank |
Player | POS | School | Proj. Round | |
18 | James Daniels | OC | Iowa | 1 | |
22 | Leighton Vander Esch | LB | Boise State | 1 | |
23 | Will Hernandez | OG | UTEP | 1 | |
29 | D.J. Moore | WR | Maryland | 1-2 | |
32 | Christian Kirk | WR | Texas A&M | 1-2 | |
38 | D.J. Chark | WR | LSU | 1-2 | |
55 | Nathan Shepherd | DT | Fort Hayes State | 2 | |
56 | Austin Corbett | OT | Nevada | 2 | |
62 | Malik Jefferson | LB | Texas | 2 | |
84 | Braden Smith | OG | Auburn | 2-3 | |
87 | Nyheim Hines | RB | N.C. State | 3 | |
90 | Kyle Lauletta | QB | Richmond | 3 | |
95 | Michael Gallup | WR | Colorado State | 3 | |
99 | DaeSean Hamilton | WR | Penn State | 3 | |
106 | Tre'Quan Smith | WR | Central Florida | 3-4 | |
115 | Fred Warner | LB | BYU | 3-4 | |
169 | Darius Leonard | LB | South Carolina State | 5 | |
170 | Dimitri Flowers | FB | Oklahoma | 5 | |
202 | David Wells | TE | San Diego State | 6 | |
279 | Joshua Kalu | S | Nebraska | 7-FA | |
482 | Davon Grayson | WR | East Carolina | FA | |
-- | Chris Jones | CB | Nebraska | FA | |
-- | Tejan Koroma | OC | BYU | FA | |
-- | Vyncint Smith | WR | Limestone | FA | |
-- | Detrez Newsome | WR | Western Carolina | FA |
Next week we'll ask some of our writers to construct mock drafts using only players featured in one of the three lists above. But why wait?
Can you create a mock draft using only the players invited for official visits, private workouts, or Dallas Day?