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Pick: William & Mary cornerback B.W. Webb, No. 114 overall

Pros: A solid zone corner with great athletic ability. Has the ability to play the ball and is fast enough to cover up some mistakes. Had 11 interceptions in his career with eight coming as a freshman.

Cons: He is not the most physical player in run support. Is a little slight of size and press coverage is not one of his strengths. Did his interception total slip because he didn’t get much action?

Cowboy fit: You can never have enough corners and this could put Orlando Scandrick on the clock. Scandrick’s cap figures jump up in 2014 and this team will need to make some economic decisions. Webb steps in as the fourth corner with Sterling Moore.

Could have had: Earl Watford, G, James Madison; Landy Jones, QB, Oklahoma, Andre Ellington, RB, Clemson, Joseph Randle, RB, Oklahoma State

IRVING, Texas -- While the early portions of the NFL draft went to offense, the defense has started to take over.

The Cowboys drafted William and Mary cornerback B.W. Webb in the fourth round on Saturday morning.

The Cowboys drafted offensive players with their first three picks before selecting safety J.J. Wilcox of Georgia Southern in the third round.

Webb was one of the 30 national visits the Cowboys conducted this month at Valley Ranch. Webb, 5-10, 184 pounds, is good in zone coverage and has the potential to play on the nickel and special teams.

In his first game at William and Mary, Webb picked off three passes against Virginia and returned one for a touchdown.

IRVING, Texas – Since coining the term, “Romo friendly,” Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones has had a funny way of showing that friendliness.

That’s changed in this offseason, and perhaps it has to do with the six-year extension Romo signed last month.

If the Cowboys’ first three picks are any indication, then Jones has taken a “Romo friendly” approach.

Quibble with what they got in return from San Francisco, but the Cowboys were able to address the interior of the offensive line with Travis Frederick with the 31st overall pick. Frederick will come in as a starter

“What he really is, is a foundation there in the middle that when we have him and (Tyron) Smith on the outside, we can fill in the blanks as we go along over the next few years, if he is the player we expect him to be there,” Jones said. “We needed that face. Romo called and said, ‘Thank you for my extra half second.’ That is going to mean more to us than anything I can say.”

Second-round tight end Gavin Escobar has to represent a significant shift in offensive philosophy. The Cowboys will be a heavy two-tight end team, but they say it will look differently than the ones they ran with previous second rounders Anthony Fasano and Martellus Bennett.

Escobar gives the Cowboys options, potentially down in the red zone, even if he is not a strong blocker at the moment.

Wide receiver Terrance Williams, the third-round pick gained in the San Francisco trade, is a potential big-play receiver. With the uncertain health of Miles Austin and Dez Bryant the last two years, the Cowboys needed to have a suitable outside receiver if their top-two receivers miss multiple weeks.

Williams caught 97 passes for 1,832 yards and 12 touchdowns at Baylor last season.

“I think he is a mature player,” coach Jason Garrett said. “He plays with poise, he understands how to run routes, and he’s very good at making contested catches. One of the big jumps for a lot of young receivers in the NFL is the physical nature of the game. Often times in college there is some space out there. You are going to get contested by corners in the National Football League. The size and strength that you need to go along with the quickness and speed is critical. Getting off a press and making contested plays at the top of the route. He has demonstrated all of that.”

IRVING, Texas – With Day 3 of the NFL Draft about to begin, we’ll offer some more names to consider from a Cowboys’ perspective based on the invite list to Valley Ranch earlier in the month either on a national visit or Dallas Day.

National visits:

RB Joseph Randle, Oklahoma State
S Phillip Thomas, Fresno State
LB Gerald Hodges, Penn State
CB B.W Webb, William & Mary
WR Charles Johnson, Grand Valley State
LB Brandon Magee, Arizona State
TE D.C. Jefferson, Rutgers
TE Dion Sims, Michigan State
WR Markus Wheaton, Oregon State
S Jakar Hamilton, South Carolina State

Dallas Day

QB
Kyle Padron, Eastern Washington
Tanner Marsh, Arkansas Tech
Dalton Williams, Akron
Jake Mullin, McMurry

RB
Matthew Tucker, TCU
Eric Stephens, Texas Tech
Zach Line, SMU
Jared Salubi, Baylor
Kendial Lawrence, Missouri
Rex Burkhead, Nebraska
Toben Opurum, Kansas

TE
Cole Anderson, Furman
Corey Fuller, TCU

WR
Skye Dawson, TCU
Darius Johnson, SMU
Brent Leonard, Lousiana-Monroe
Demetrius Fields, Northwestern
Dan Buckner, Arizona
Lanear Sampson, Baylor
Uzoma Nwachukwu, Texas A&M
Darren Moore, Texas Tech
Josh Boyce, TCU

OL
Evan Epstein, Oklahoma State
Blaize Foltz, TCU
Blake McJunkin, SMU
Adrien Campbell, Tarleton State
Bryan Collins, SMU
Lane Taylor, Oklahoma State

DL
R.J. Washington, Oklahoma
Aaron Davis, SMU
Kapron Lewis-Moore, Notre Dame
Rufus Johnson, Tarleton State
Torlan Pittman, SMU
Casey Walker, Oklahoma

LB
Taylor Reed, SMU
Ja’Gared Davis, SMU
Alex Elkins, Oklahoma State
Jarvis Wilson, Prairie View
R.J. Young, Lousiana-Monroe

DB
Steve Williams, Cal
Stephen Terrell, Texas A&M
Jamaal White, Northwestern State
Gary Brown, Kansas
Troy Stoudemire, Minnesota
Kip Edwards, Missouri
Luke Anderson, Wyoming
Demontre Hurst, Oklahoma
Don Unamba, Southern Arkansas
Devin Smith, Wisconsin

P
Quinn Sharp, Oklahoma State
Will Atterberry, North Texas
Spencer Covey, Abilene Christian

IRVING, Texas -- The last day of the NFL draft is here and with four rounds left, Cowboys owner/general manager Jerry Jones said just because the franchise drafted a tight end in round three doesn't mean the front office is done.

Gavin Escobar was selected in the third round and has the ability to become a pass catching tight end, something that Jason Witten and James Hanna is. Yet, the Cowboys do have a need for a blocking tight end and Jones said that can still happen.

"We're not through yet and we may be in the blocking tight end business," Jones said. "My point is we’re going to block better; we will block better and we block better if we got three or two tights out there or three wide receivers. That was very much in our minds."

Prior to the draft, the Cowboys voiced concern about the durability of starting running back DeMarco Murray, who missed six games in 2012 with a foot injury.

After three rounds, the Cowboys didn't draft a running back yet had high regard for Giovani Bernard, Le'Veon Bell, Eddie Lacy.

"We're not through," Jones said about getting a running back. "We just we had a real good grade on them. We aren't through at running back. I hate to answer no, they didn’t temp us, as it turns out the Williams thing hit us real good we needed that to happen once in a draft."

The Williams thing is the Cowboys getting Baylor wide receiver Terrence Williams in the third round. The Cowboys didn't anticipate that happening because they figured he would be gone. Jones said the Cowboys came into the draft with the anticipation of going heavy on offense and achieved that with three of their four picks on the offensive side of the ball.

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What to expect: The Cowboys have three draft picks (114, 151 and 185) remaining but none in the seventh round.

Needs: Blocking tight end, running back and tackle.

Best best available prospects: QB Ryan Nassib, Syracuse; QB Matt Barkley, USC; DT Jesse Williams, Alabama; WR Quinton Patton, La. Tech, OLB Khaseem Greene, Rutgers; QB Tyler Wilson, Arkansas; DE Alex Okafor, Texas; C Brian Schwenke, Cal; RB Andre Ellington, Clemson, S Shamarko Thomas, Syracuse.

Cowboys best available: RB Stepfan Taylor, Stanford; T David Quessenberry, San Jose State; RB Joseph Randle, Oklahoma State; TE D.C. Jefferson, Rutgers; TE Dion Sims, Michigan State; LB Gerald Hodges, Penn State.

Day 2 recap: No trades but the Cowboys picked the highest available players on their board starting with TE Gavin Escobar in the second round. Escobar, from San Diego State, is a pass-catching tight end the team wants to pair up with Jason Witten and James Hanna in a revamped offense. The next two picks were solid third-round selections in Baylor WR Terrance Williams and Georgia Southern S J.J. Wilcox. Williams has a chance to get significant snaps as an outside receiver while Wilcox might become a solid special teams player with the potential to become a starting strong safety. Cowboys didn't feel the the need to force a pick and allowed several running backs to go free.

Quotable from Stephen Jones: "Take the best player. We've just got to sit there and pick good football players. I think they'll be there. We're going to get good players. I think the draft is strong. I think we'll get a good player in the fourth, a good player in the fifth and a good player in the sixth."

It's the making-of-the-sausage aspect of the NFL draft that's the problem. If the Dallas Cowboys had begun this offseason with picks 31, 47, 74 and 80 and drafted these same four players, the fans' reaction would have been quite different (though they'd still probably be mad about having lost the Super Bowl). The reason everybody was so upset about the Cowboys' draft 24 hours ago was this trade they made with the San Francisco 49ers in the first round and the idea that they didn't get enough in return for the No. 18 pick.

But from here? From the tail end of Friday night, with three rounds and four Cowboys picks in the books? To me, it looks as though the Cowboys are having a pretty good draft.

The first and most important thing they needed to do, above all else, was find offensive line help in the first round, and they did. You might not like Travis Frederick as a first-rounder, but the fact is this draft was weak at the top. And if you're sifting between sub-optimal options, why should you feel compelled to pick the guy other people have agreed to like as opposed to the guy you like? "Trust your board," is every team's pre-draft mantra, and if the Cowboys' board called Frederick their answer, there's nothing wrong with taking him with the 31st pick.

What happened next seemed weird because it was offense again with the first two picks Friday night. A team that has Jason Witten used its second-round pick on a tight end its fans had never heard of, Gavin Escobar, instead of a safety or a tackle or another offensive lineman. So the crying began anew, as well as the same old jokes about how the owner needs to fire the GM when we all know there's no chance of that ever happening. Then, in the third round, with the pick they got in that first-round trade, they went offense again, taking Baylor wide receiver Terrance Williams.

But then a funny thing happened. The outlines of the plan began to congeal in front of everyone's eyes. And through the prism of a pick that finally felt like a really good one, it all started to make sense. The Cowboys just signed their franchise quarterback, Tony Romo, to a gigantic contract extension. When you do that, you're inclined to build up the offense around him. And by taking an interior lineman in the first round and a pair of dynamic passing-game weapons in the second and third, that's what the Cowboys were up to in the early part of the 2013 draft.

Recall the common complaints about the Cowboys' offense. (The non-Romo ones, if you will.) It's unimaginative. It stalls in the red zone. It doesn't have a reliable No. 3 wide receiver, and its No. 2, Miles Austin, is always hurt. The picks of Escobar and Williams address all of that. Escobar is a considerably better player than James Hanna, last season's sixth-round pick, and the ability to put him on the field along with Witten will offer the Cowboys options they didn't have on offense last season. Escobar is a reliable pass-catcher who can outfight defenders for the ball in traffic, and that will serve him and the Cowboys well up and down the field, but especially in the red zone. Williams is a big-play outside receiver who allows them to use Austin in the slot when they go three wide and can be a game-breaker if teams overcommit to Dez Bryant on the other side. They have found fresh options that offer more variety for an offense that too often limits its quarterback's options in key spots. And by taking the lineman first, they've helped shore up Romo's protection, as well.

Some wanted a running back, but you can always get one of those, and there are still plenty on the board with four rounds to go. Some wanted a tackle or a guard, and I couldn't have argued if they wanted to overaddress the line. But you're more likely to find a usable offensive lineman in the fourth or fifth round than you are to find a big-play tight end or receiver there. Eric Winston and others remain on the free-agent market as possible answers at tackle. They did something about the line with their first pick, and the opportunity to do more exists for them.

Some wanted defense in the second round -- a three-technique defensive tackle or a playmaking safety. They ended up with a physical safety in J.J. Wilcox with their original third-round pick, and they like what he offers in terms of upside. But the basic theory with the Cowboys defense appears to be that the changes on the coaching staff, the switch to a 4-3 front and improved health will deliver improvement. They lost six defensive starters to injury last season, and if those guys all come back and thrive in their new 4-3 roles, those are their big additions on defense.

No, spending the early part of the draft on help for Romo was a completely worthwhile choice of priorities for the Cowboys, who came out of the first three rounds with three offensive players they like and can find multiple ways to use (plus that new safety). They're focused on putting Romo and coach Jason Garrett in the best possible position to succeed by expanding the boundaries of the offense's capabilities from play to play and week to week. If you're Romo and Garrett right now, you're thinking up new plays and personnel formations that weren't available to you last season when Bryant, Austin and Witten were your only reliable pass-catchers, and you're excited.

The draft is about hope that things will get better. A look back at the first three rounds offers the Cowboys a number of ways to imagine a more fun and productive offense. It doesn't really matter how it started or how they got here. So far, the Cowboys have to feel as though they're having a pretty good draft.

IRVING, Texas -- What will be different this time that the Cowboys drafted a tight end in the second round to complement perennial Pro Bowler Jason Witten?

That’s not a rhetorical question. Jerry Jones really pressed Jason Garrett on the issue before taking San Diego State’s Gavin Escobar with the 47th overall pick.

“We literally by taking him had to look at each other in the draft room and say to Jason, ‘Are we going to be different because of him? Does this add a dimension?’” Jones said. “Not that we came in to be different, but if we take him to have these three tight ends with (James) Hanna and Witten, are we going to be doing some things differently that we haven’t done before?

“The answer is yes.”

Two good reasons to be skeptical: Anthony Fasano and Martellus Bennett. Under Garrett’s coaching, neither of the Cowboys’ last two second-round tight ends emerged as significant weapons in the passing game until they left Valley Ranch.

If that’s the case with Escobar, the Cowboys will have wasted another second-round pick. The Cowboys coveted the 6-foot-5 7/8, 254-pounder because of his receiving ability, certainly not because of his average-at-best blocking.

This comes down to whether Garrett can be creative enough to utilize Escobar’s talent in an offense that also features Witten, Dez Bryant, Miles Austin, DeMarco Murray and now third-round receiver Terrance Williams.

“We never got where we wanted to go with Martellus,” Jones said. “For whatever the reason, we didn’t get there.”

Bennett didn’t score a touchdown in his final three seasons with the Cowboys, basically becoming a glorified tackle-eligible. Valley Ranch folks point out that Garrett’s scheme wasn’t necessarily at fault for Bennett’s lack of production.

“Some of the things we tried to do with Martellus we couldn’t get done because we just couldn’t get it working,” Jones said. “I mean, we had packages we worked at for weeks out here sometimes to get packages in games and then he didn’t show. It sounds negative toward him, but he didn’t show.

“So having said that, we welcome the opportunity to add a real tight end, a New England-type emphasis.”

The hope is that Escobar can fill Aaron Hernandez’s role as the second tight end who often lines up in the slot or as an outside receiver.

Garrett said Escobar plays much faster than his unimpressive 4.84 40 time. That’s supported by the fact that Escobar had the best 20-yard shuttle (4.31), 60-yard shuttle (11.86) and three-cone drill (7.07) among tight ends at the combine.

Combine that athleticism with Escobar’s soft hands and ability to fight for the ball in traffic, and the Cowboys believe they’ve added another weapon for Tony Romo. Of course, we heard the same thing when they selected Bennett in 2008.

“Are we going to do the kinds of things necessary to invest that kind of pick?” Jones said. “We are.”

That doesn’t necessarily mean the Cowboys will do much new from a scheme standpoint. As Garrett pointed out, he’s always preferred to use a lot of multi-tight end formations.

“We’ve used the 12 personnel group a lot over the years, maybe as much as any team in the league,” said Garrett, who used those personnel groups much less after Bennett left in free agency before last season. “This is a guy who can really come in and make a difference for us at that tight end spot opposite Witt. We feel Witt is arguably as good a tight end in the National Football League. He has so many strengths.

“When you can add somebody else at the tight end position with this guy’s length, athleticism and pass-catching ability to go along with our outside receivers, it can be a challenging personnel group for defenses to handle.”

Escobar needs to develop as a blocker – something the Cowboys think will happens as a result of his work in the strength and conditioning program – but the hope is his presence will provide an immediate boost to a running game that ranked last in the NFC last season. The logic: Teams will be forced to play a lot of nickel defense to account for him as a receiving threat, making it easier to run the ball.

The Cowboys were dreadful running the ball out of two-tight end sets last season, averaging 2.7 yards on 120 carries, a drop from 4.2 yards a pop on 225 carries the previous season.

That’s proof that the Cowboys actually missed Bennett last season, as disappointing as his Dallas tenure was.

But the hope is that Escobar will make the Cowboys’ previous second-round tight ends distant memories, not continue the trend. The heat is on Garrett to make it happen.

IRVING, Texas – Thursday’s trade down with San Francisco was the 60th draft-day trade of the Jerry Jones era.

The Cowboys’ decision to move down from No. 18 to 31 and pick up an extra third-round pick was met with curiosity as was the player the Cowboys took at No. 31, center Travis Frederick.

Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones understands some of the angst.

“It’s never going to be popular when you move down,” Jones said. “Everybody thinks we’re, ‘Oh, my God, we get to make a trade. Let’s move down.’ That’s not what we were hoping for, but to me you don’t pay for the hoopla. You can’t get into that. And you’ve got to manage your draft. We felt like the best decision for us was to go do the right thing, pick up a pick and take a player that fits what we needed in the first round. That brings some value for that pick. Now we lost a few guys that maybe would’ve been a little but higher than Frederick, but they didn’t make it to 31.”

Among those players were safety Eric Reid, who went at No. 18 to San Francisco, guard Justin Pugh, who went to the New York Giants at No. 19 and wide receiver Cordarrelle Patterson, who went to Minnesota at No. 29.

Jones said the Cowboys only options to trade up were for guards Jonathan Cooper or Chance Warmack.

“We needed players,” Jones said. “We didn’t need to be going up and giving up ur picks with where we are under the salary cap right now,” Jones said. “We needed to be more focused on staying where we are or going the other way because we do need to infuse some young players on this team.”

IRVING, Texas -- The Cowboys have not addressed the offensive tackle spot with their first four selections and have not reached out to the agents for veterans Tyson Clabo or Eric Winston.

While executive vice president Stephen Jones said Doug Free’s situation is “to be determined,” he was also emphatic that he wants Free to remain with the team.

The Cowboys have made a pay-cut offer to Free, who is scheduled to earn $7 million this season. Jones said they have not heard from Free or the player’s agent, Jimmy Sexton, about whether they would accept a lower salary yet.

“We want him back, how’s that?” Jones said. “We’d love to have him here. I think he’d love to be here. Now the question is, it’s got to work for him and it’s got to work for us. I have all the respect in the world for Doug. He works his ass off. He wants to play better. He knows he needs to play better. He’d be the first to tell you that.”

Free split time over the last month of the season with Jermey Parnell and performed better. The Cowboys have had some conversations with the representatives of Clabo and Winston, but they have not ventured into any negotiations.

With the draft ending Saturday, the competition in the free-agent market figures to heat up quickly.

Jones said the team would like to get something resolved sooner rather than later.

“We’ve got a little bit of money to figure out what to do with Free and you don’t have to worry about us in free agency,” Jones said.

IRVING, Texas -- As far as Jerry Jones is concerned, his first-round trade-down deal was further justified Friday night.

The Cowboys took Baylor wide receiver Terrance Williams with the No. 74 overall pick, which they acquired from the San Francisco 49ers along with No. 31 (Wisconsin center Travis Frederick) in exchange for the 18th pick.

Jones wanted to make sure the media knew that Williams was way higher than 74th on the Cowboys’ draft board.

For that matter, Jones said that the Cowboys considered San Diego State tight end Gavin Escobar a bargain with the 47th overall pick.

“If you look at those first three picks, if you could see our draft boards, you could see beginning in the early 20s those first three picks right there within about four of each other,” Jones said. “Those first three on our draft board are right there in that early-twenty area.”

Frederick, whom Jones refers to as “a foundation in the middle” of the offensive line, was No. 22 on the Cowboys’ board. Escobar and Williams were actually in the mid-20s. The Cowboys gave 19 players first-round grades, so they considered their top three picks all high second-round talents.

IRVING, Texas -- On his pre-draft visit with the Cowboys, safety J.J. Wilcox came away enamored with owner and general manager Jerry Jones.

“Mr. Jerry Jones is one of the best general managers and best owners I’ve ever met,” Wilcox said. “He’s calm, collected and energetic. You don’t see that much from an owner. They’re mostly laid back.”

You have to wonder how many owners Wilcox met in the draft process, but there would be a few who would not be as effusive about Jones among the fans.

Thin at safety, the Cowboys are hoping Wilcox can contribute his first year with designs on him starting I the future if not immediately. The team’s other forays into small-school safeties has not gone so well in recent years with Akwaski Owusu-Ansah (Indiana, Pa., fourth round, 2010) and Matt Johnson (Eastern Washington, fourth round, 2012) not contributing.

Wilcox has played one year of safety but caught attention from the Senior Bowl.

“There’s a lot of household names in the NFL from smaller schools,” Wilcox said.

IRVING, Texas -- Dallas Cowboys officials summoned quarterback Tony Romo to the Valley Ranch facility on Friday to look at some tape of prospective draft picks before the start of the draft.

Romo told Cowboys owner/general manager Jerry Jones he liked what he saw from tight end Gavin Escobar, and wide receiver Terrance Williams, who eventually became draft picks.

Escobar was drafted in the third round and is projected as a pass-catching tight end who allows the Cowboys to possibly use three tight ends. Williams was picked up in the fourth round, and he's an outside receiver who gives Miles Austin the ability to play as a slot and outside receiver.

Romo also told Jones he liked the pick of center Travis Frederick, the first-rounder from Wisconsin. Romo told Jones he now feels he'll have that extra second he needs to make plays because Frederick is a big, strong center who Jones said can become the foundation of the line.

"We were very interested in seeing specifically spend our time with Tony on Escobar and Terrence Williams and one other receiver," Jerry Jones said. "We just wanted him to spend some time looking at it, and he does a good job of that. We wanted to visit about the very thing that [coach] Jason [Garrett] has addressed, and that is Escobar: 'How confident will you be? What do you think with that package with [three] tight ends in there?' He's got a good perspective."

It's not the first time Romo or other former Cowboys' quarterbacks have looked at prospective draft picks to give their opinion as to whether or not they can work with them.

Hall of Famer, Troy Aikman also worked out some draft picks for the Jones family when he played for the Cowboys.

"We took Troy to workouts sometimes," team executive vice president Stephen Jones said. "It's input, and like Jerry said, spend a small amount of time, but it's interesting to get another perspective."

IRVING, Texas -- The Dallas Cowboys' third-round pick, wide receiver Terrance Williams from Baylor, said he's not afraid to take on press coverage, something he might face once his NFL career starts.

"Seeing press is not my biggest fear," Williams said Friday night. "At times I saw it in college, I destroyed it. I'm really not worried about press that much. I know how to beat it and I'm pretty sure they will teach me ways to beat it more, and I'm just trying to get better and learn from Dez Bryant, Miles Austin that will mean the world to me and get me ready for press coverage."

When Williams was redshirted in 2008, he simulated Bryant, who at that time played for Oklahoma State, in practice as the scout team wide receiver.

"Just watching him play, back in college when I was on scout team, I had to be him and that's somebody that I really, really liked," Williams said. "I'm going to get a chance to play beside him and that means the world to me because now I get to learn from one of the best, and somebody who can help me throughout this whole process, and he can bring the best out of me and I'm just ready to get to work and play football now."

Williams set career-highs in catches (97), yards (1,832) and touchdowns (12) in his senior season. While he didn't return kicks his senior season, he averaged 22.6 yards per return in his redshirt freshman and sophomore seasons. Williams said he's willing to return to that role with the Cowboys.

"It feels like a dream to be drafted by a team I grew up watching," said Williams, who graduated from W.T. White High School in Dallas. "I always liked (them) and to get a chance to play for them means the world to me."