Schoonmaker pick is borderline just as bad, if not worse, than the Joseph pick. Joseph was at least a justifiable need position at the time, 86 was simply a terrible panic pick or a stupid pet pick for McCarthy/Lunda Wells. He probably won’t be a part of a murder investigation, but he won’t be much more than a James Hanna type, either. He’s certainly far below what Geoff Swaim was as a blocking TE for us. It was really a terrible, terrible pick. In the 5th, ok, whatever. In the 2nd? Absolutely not. You can’t take a guy who was a backup for the entirety of his career at Michigan until Erick All (who since transferred to Iowa), tore his ACL in 2022. He had an injury history in college, despite limited playoff time, and virtually no production to speak of. By the way, in addition to All, he also backed up McKeon and Zach Gentry while he was at Michigan. Guy was somehow drafted 100 or more picks ahead of those guys but his own damn college coaches saw him as a stopgap/backup type and the Cowboys took him in the 2nd like he was some rock solid slam dunk contributor. What a fucking joke.

They should have gone Torrence at a bare minimum (and I don’t give a shit that he had a 4 on their damn board) or whoever their BPA was instead, whether that was Drew Sanders or whoever. If that 4th round grade bothers you so much, then take someone, literally anyone else. It was clear based on last year that Ferguson was going to be a useful pro and TE could be back-burnered in the draft but they chose this guy of all the possible options. Completely and totally inexcusable.