Cowboys’ Jones won’t rule out taking QB with top pick … Right on cue, we got more than the usual share of nasty emails from disgruntled Cowboys’ fans after we had the Cowboys taking Memphis junior QB Paxton Lynch with the 7th pick overall in the latest GBN first-round projection for the 2016 draft. In fact, Dallas hasn’t taken a QB in the opening round since selecting Troy Aikman with the first pick overall in Owner/GM Jerry Jones very first draft with the Cowboys in 1989, but Jones was quoted on his local weekly radio show earlier this week as saying that while the Cowboys were unlikely to use an early pick this year to try and find an ultimate replacement for incumbent starter Tony Romo, he might be tempted if a ‘great one like Ben Roethlisberger or Johnny Manziel’ were to fall to the Cowboys. Of course, with the Cowboys struggling at 2-6 with Romo sidelined, the top QBs in this year’s draft such as Lynch, Jared Goff of California or Michigan State’s Connor Cook might now have to slip all that far to still be available when Dallas gets on the clock on April 28th. And the timing might be right for Dallas to look for a successor for Romo as he has three years left on a contract that is going to cost the Cowboys over $20M per year against their cap. Of course, it probably wouldn’t cost the Cowboys much more than a bag of used footballs and a tackling dummy to pry the aforementioned Manziel away from Cleveland, which selected him with the 22nd pick at the 2014 draft after Jones and the Cowboys thought long and hard about taking the former Texas A&M star, also known affectionately as ‘Johnny Football’, with the 14th pick that year.
