FRISCO, Texas — Having experienced a long wait to go onto the clock at the 2026 NFL Draft in the third round, lacking a second-round pick this year, the Dallas Cowboys knew one thing in particular heading into their final pick of the fourth round: they’d need to nail the pick, seeing as they entered the day without a pick in the fifth or sixth rounds, due to trades made on Day 1 (for Caleb Downs) and Day 2 (for Dee Winters).
Plenty of defensive needs were addressed to this point, both in free agency and in the draft itself, to the point the Cowboys’ front office and head coach Brian Schottenheimer had some fun with the possibility of not walking away with any offensive additions; but the jury was out on if that would be the case.
With the 137th-overall pick, they selected LT Overton, a versatile defensive lineman out of Alabama.