Saturday at the NFL Draft is when some teams decide to take a risk and select players they believe to have solid potential despite being a late-round pick. The Dallas Cowboys went with a defensive back in the fifth round with the No. 174 overall pick, taking Wake Forest’s Caelen Carson.
Apparently, there had not been too much communication between the Cowboys and Carson before his name was called from Detroit. Carson revealed the last time he spoke with Dallas was back at the NFL Combine, calling the move ‘surprising.’
“New Cowboys CB Caelen Carson said he didn’t speak with team since his formal interview at combine,” Michael Gehlken of the Dallas Morning News said via X. “Called being drafted to Dallas ‘pretty surprising.’ Expected to be selected in third to fourth round. Went late fifth. ‘This is God’s plan.’ Compared own game to a raw Jaycee Horn.”
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