Several former Oregon Ducks could interest the Cowboys in the 2025 NFL Draft.
Sometimes figuring out who the Dallas Cowboys could target in the offseason to upgrade their roster is as simple as connecting the dots. With the coaching staff filling out under new head coach Brian Schottenheimer, that’s exactly what we’re going to attempt to do today.
Junior Adams was recently hired to be the new Dallas Cowboys wide receiver coach, the same position he held recently with the Oregon Ducks. He is highly-regarded for the work he has done developing WRs during his time in Oregon and will hopefully do the same now with the Cowboys.
Considering how talented Oregon was last year, and connecting the dots, we can only assume Junior Adams’ familiarity with several former Oregon players could lead the Cowboys to become interested in some of them in the 2025 NFL Draft. In fact, there almost a dozen with draftable grades according to the consensus big board who could be of interest to them.
Consensus big board ranking for Oregon’s 2025 draft class
- OT Josh Conley Jr. (30)
- DT Derrick Harmon (32)
- QB Dillon Gabriel (84)
- WR Tez Johnson (86)
- EDGE/DL Jordan Burch (89)
- TE Terrance Ferguson (123)
- OT Ajani Cornelius (129)
- LB Jeffrey Bassa (135)
- DT Jamaree Caldwell (191)
- RB Jordan James (194)
- CB Jamar Muhammad (205)
As you can see, there are a number former Oregon Ducks who could be of interest to the Cowboys in the 2025 NFL Draft now that Junior Adams has joined Brian Schottenheimer’s coaching staff. While Adam’s probably only worked directly with Tez Johnson as his position coach, he should know the rest of these prospects fairly well as well.
A case could be made for just about any one of these prospects for Dallas. Of this group Josh Conley and Derek Harmon are first-round prospects who could be immediate impact players. Tez Johnson, Terrance Ferguson, and Jeffrey Bassa could potentially challenge for starting jobs and nearly everyone else could provide much-needed depth at positions of need.
All in all, the Oregon Ducks 2025 draft class could be one the Cowboys keep a close eye on when the 2025 NFL Draft gets underway due to Adams’ familiarity with this group of players. Having that kind of inside knowledge could prove to be invaluable on draft day for the decision-making process in the war room.
