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Jerry Jones on if the Dallas Cowboys would draft Texas A&M’s Johnny Manziel
By Jon Machota / Special Contributor
jmachota@dallasnews.com
2:18 pm on May 1, 2013 |
It makes sense that football fans in Texas, especially Texas A&M fans, would like to see Johnny Manziel as the future quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys.
If Manziel has the type of Heisman Trophy-season he did last year, there’s a good chance that he’ll leave Texas A&M after his sophomore season and enter the 2014 NFL Draft. If that happens, it’s very possible that he would be drafted in the first round and maybe within one of the first few picks.
Would the Cowboys be interested in spending their 2014 first-round pick on a quarterback after recently giving Tony Romo a six-year, $108 million contract extension?
Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones was asked that Wednesday during a conference call with season-ticket holders.
“Although we’ve just signed Romo, there’s a time when you start at quarterback, preparing for the future,” Jones explained. “We can’t talk about, I’m forbidden, from league rules of talking at all about an undrafted player, a player that still has eligibility. That has as much to do with your competitive aspect of other teams not liking that. In other words, what are you doing? Are you trying to recruit? Are you getting ahead of things?
“I can’t talk about him but, gosh, do I enjoy watching him and I am enjoying our Heisman Trophy winner.”
By Jon Machota / Special Contributor
jmachota@dallasnews.com
2:18 pm on May 1, 2013 |
It makes sense that football fans in Texas, especially Texas A&M fans, would like to see Johnny Manziel as the future quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys.
If Manziel has the type of Heisman Trophy-season he did last year, there’s a good chance that he’ll leave Texas A&M after his sophomore season and enter the 2014 NFL Draft. If that happens, it’s very possible that he would be drafted in the first round and maybe within one of the first few picks.
Would the Cowboys be interested in spending their 2014 first-round pick on a quarterback after recently giving Tony Romo a six-year, $108 million contract extension?
Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones was asked that Wednesday during a conference call with season-ticket holders.
“Although we’ve just signed Romo, there’s a time when you start at quarterback, preparing for the future,” Jones explained. “We can’t talk about, I’m forbidden, from league rules of talking at all about an undrafted player, a player that still has eligibility. That has as much to do with your competitive aspect of other teams not liking that. In other words, what are you doing? Are you trying to recruit? Are you getting ahead of things?
“I can’t talk about him but, gosh, do I enjoy watching him and I am enjoying our Heisman Trophy winner.”
