Can Dallas Cowboys be eliminated from playoff contention in Week 16?

This year has been a wild one for theDallas Cowboys− from theirbreakup with former coach Mike McCarthyin January, to thehiring of Brian Schottenheimeras his replacement, to the tradesfor George Pickensand,later, Quinnen Williamsand theinfamous divorce from Micah Parsons. On the field, they've shownhighly promising flashesand, alternately,extremely disappointing stretches− the net effect being a team that's consistently hovered around .500 and entersWeek 16with a 6-7-1 record.

Week 16 could alsomark the end of Dallas' postseason viability. Here's what's at stake for theCowboysthis weekend and, potentially, for the remainder of the 2025 regular season:

Week 5: Buffalo Bills wide receiver Curtis Samuel makes a catch against the New England Patriots at Highmark Stadium. The Bills wore their new "Rivalries" uniform for the "Sunday Night Football" game, which the Patriots won, 23-20.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Week 5: Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield awaits the snap against the Seattle Seahawks at Lumen Field. Both teams wore throwback uniforms in the Buccaneers' 38-35 win. The Buccaneers and Seahawks entered the NFL together as expansion teams in 1976.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Week 4: Denver Broncos quarterback Bo Nix (10) hands the ball off to running back J.K. Dobbins during the "Monday Night Football" game against the Cincinnati Bengals at Empower Field at Mile High. The Broncos wore their "Midnight Navy" uniforms for the 28-3 win.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Week 4: Miami Dolphins running back De'von Achane rushes the ball against the New York Jets during a 27-21 win on "Monday Night Football" at Hard Rock Stadium. The Dolphins wore their new their Nike "Rivalries" uniforms – the team version dubbed "Dark Waters."

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Week 4: The Arizona Cardinals defense tackles Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Tory Horton (15) during the first quarter of a "Thursday Night Football" game at State Farm Stadium. The Cardinals became the first NFL team to wear the new Nike "Rivalries" uniform in a game. The Seahawks won the game, 23-20.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Week 3: New Orleans Saints running back Kendre Miller (5) stiff arms Seattle Seahawks linebacker Tyrice Knight (48) during the second quarter at Lumen Field. The Saints wore their all-white uniform and helmet combo for the first time in the 44-13 loss.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Week 3: San Francisco 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey carries the ball against the Arizona Cardinals during the first half at Levi's Stadium. The 49ers wore throwback jerseys - an homage to the team's 1950s look, as well as its 1994 Super Bowl-winning season - in the 16-15 win against the Cardinals.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Week 2: Minnesota Vikings quarterback J.J. McCarthy (9) runs the ball against the Atlanta Falcons at U.S. Bank Stadium. Sporting "The Vikings Classic" throwback uniform inspired by the team's look during the 1960s and '70s, Minnesota was defeated, 22-6.

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Can the Cowboys be eliminated in Week 16?

Yep, and that outcome can occur with two basic results ... and a remote one:

1. Eagles beat Commanders on Saturday OR

2. Cowboys lose to Chargers on Sunday OR

3. Eagles and Cowboys both tie

Can the Cowboys still make the 2025 playoffs?

Yes ... but the path couldn't be more narrow. For Dallas to win the NFC East − "America's Team" has no wild-card path − it must:

▶ Win its three remaining gamesANDPhiladelphia must lose its final three games

When did Cowboys last make the playoffs?

Under McCarthy, Dallas went 12-5 in the regular season in 2021, 2022 and 2023, winning two NFC East crowns over that stretch and a wild card (2022). The Cowboys are 13-17-1 since.

When did Cowboys last reach the Super Bowl?

A franchise that's won five Lombardi Trophies hasn't reached Super Sunday in 30 years. The club that won Super Bowl 30 with Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, Michael Irvin and Deion Sanders is also the last one to even make the NFC championship game.

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Is there a secret to playing college sports? This boys coach says yes

I am brave.

Linda Martindale wasn't brave, at least she didn't think she was after she had been hired as a varsity boys basketball coach.

"Once the game started, I was fine," says Martindale, now in her sixth season leading Lincoln-Sudbury (MA), "but walking into the gym and people thinking I'm the scorekeeper or whatever, I had to sort of overcome this feeling of, 'Do I belong in the gym?' "

She made the three words her mantra, and she convinced herself shewasbrave. You need to be as an athlete, or a coach, in today's world of youth sports.

"I have fond memories of my athletic career, but I also know there was a lot of heartache and it was very difficult," says Martindale, who played Division II basketball at Alaska-Anchorage and in the old Pac-10 at Arizona in the late 1980s and early 1990s. "But nowadays, it's totally different. Your whole career is splashed all over social media."

Martindale's father devoted his life to coaching baseball and football, driving her and her three siblings to be punctual and polite. He was hard on them, she says, but led with love.

"If I had a bad game, the people in the stands knew and my parents knew, and that was it," Martindale tells USA TODAY Sports. "You'd come home and your parents would say, 'How did the game go?' You could self-report that. Easy to deal with.

"My oldest son would literally get DMs from strangers that say horrible things if he missed a free throw in the clutch. The landscape is very different. And it obviously trickles down to youth."

Martindale gotcertified as a mental fitness coachto help ease the pressure on her three sons and one daughter (all of them have played college sports) but also other young athletes.

She works with sports teams at Division I Holy Cross and D-III Curry College, as well as individual athletes. She says there's a secret beyond the physical component to playing sports in college.

Magic Johnson
college dominance: Led Michigan State to the 1979 NCAA Championship, defeating Larry Bird's Indiana State.
NBA: 5× NBA champion in 1980, 1982, 1985, 1987 and 1988 with the Los Angeles Lakers. 3× NBA Finals MVP in 1980, 1982 and 1987. 3× NBA Most Valuable Player in 1987, 1989 and 1990. 12× NBA All-Star: 1980, 1982-1992. 2× NBA All-Star Game MVP in 1990 and 1992. Inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Carmelo Anthony college dominance: In his lone season (2003), led Syracuse to a national championship and earned Final Four Most Outstanding Player honors. Averaged 22.2 points and 10 rebounds per game as a freshman.
NBA: 10× NBA All-Star. 2012–13 NBA scoring champion, averaging 28.7 points per game.

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Before NBA glory: How Jordan, Bird, Magic and Curry ruled in college

Magic Johnsoncollege dominance:Led Michigan State to the 1979 NCAA Championship, defeating Larry Bird's Indiana State.NBA:5× NBA champion in 1980, 1982, 1985, 1987 and 1988 with the Los Angeles Lakers. 3× NBA Finals MVP in 1980, 1982 and 1987. 3× NBA Most Valuable Player in 1987, 1989 and 1990. 12× NBA All-Star: 1980, 1982-1992. 2× NBA All-Star Game MVP in 1990 and 1992. Inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002.

We offer 10 ways, through consultation with Martindale, for parents to help athletes get there.

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1. Develop the coach in your head: It's the best one you'll ever have

When Martindale walked into the gym feeling the male eyes on her, she felt she needed an inner coach.

Your coach on the court or field will tell you what to do but, Martindale says, the one in your head will kick you in the butt to help get you where you need to go.

Jenny Levy, who has won four national titles as North Carolina's women's lacrosse coach,believes so strongly in an inner coachshe likes when her players form their own mantras.

"Confidence looks good on you," she heard her players say to each other in 2013, the year they broke through.

"A lot of coaches will say, 'This is our saying,' " Levy told Martindale on Martindale's 'Game Changers'podcast. "And I think that's fine – to each his own – but I actually let our team organically come up with their own little things. This is the team having a good time together."

The inner voice tells you it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks, only what you do.

This is my time.

This is where I belong.

To come up with your own mantra, Martindale says, ask yourself why you play a sport? Look for performance cues to grind that thought into you.

"It's not fun to lose, but it's still really fun to compete and to play," Martindale says. "OK, good, let's start with that. So at least you can say it's not fun to lose, but it's really fun to prepare for the game. We've now established that the majority of the time is fun. Now we can get through the parts that aren't fun."

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2. We can learn how to handle the hard

Kids respond to the truth. We don't need to always sugarcoat it.

Instead of saying, "It's not so hard," acknowledge that something is.

Maybe you're afraid that you might lose or you're going to make a fool of yourself in front of everybody.

"I'm happy that you can articulate a fear," Martindale might tell an athlete. "Now, let's squash it. What are you really afraid of? Is it really embarrassing to lose, or is it embarrassing not to play at all?

"It would be embarrassing if you threw yourself on the floor and screamed and cried in the middle of the game. But nobody thinks it's embarrassing that you sat on the bench, cheered on your team, and then fought another day to try to get some minutes."

3. Teach your kid how to build resilience to meet challenges head on

A current role doesn't mean an ultimate role. Martindale goes back to Tom Brady.

He was once buried deep on Michigan's depth chart. But he focused on nailing reps he got in practice. He was at game speed when he found himself starting.

"As parents, we say, 'I don't think you should have to be the backup quarterback,' " Martindale says. " 'I think you should bethequarterback.' This is not helping. What you need to do is crush being the backup. And then your time comes and you're ready instead of spending so much time worrying that you don't have the role that you want (and) you're not ready for it."

Another of her podcast guests,Luke Avdalovic, a former walk-on basketball player at Northern Arizona University, told her: "I had a teammate named JoJo Anderson and he told me, 'If you want to find a role into this team, find one thing that you're really good at. Make sure you're head and shoulders better than every single other person on the team. Then they can't take you off the floor.' "

Avdalovic became a top sharpshooter who rose to the NBA G-League.

4. 'You can't be a shooter if you can't miss'

Avdalovic has shot so much over the years he feels he's never really in a slump. Some days he shoots better than others, but that is just the law of averages.

"You can't be a pitcher if you can't pitch poorly," Martindale says. "You can't be a shooter if you can't miss. It's just not possible (to) be perfect. So what do you do when you're imperfect?"

The next time your son or daughter has a bad game, ask them, "Did you compete hard?"

You don't want them to lose or fail but they need to know how to do both. As parents, and as coaches, our best support can come out of struggles.

5. We can only get the 'yips' if we vocalize them

You know the term if you're a baseball fan. Suddenly, Steve Sax or Chuck Knoblauch can't make a routine throw from second to first base, or Rick Ankiel can't throw a strike.

"Yips is not a real thing," Martindale says.

Struggles come alive, she says, when we say them out loud. Instead, if you're a parent or a coach, tell your athlete: "I really believe in you. Just keep throwing, you'll get it back, you'll find a rhythm."

When kids feel deep-rooted support, they have more confidence in themselves.

6. We don't have to be good at everything

Martindale says today's world for young athletes is like taking the SATs while your score is being put on a scoreboard.

Sometimes, it seems, we expect our kids to be good at everything. Martindale asks the ones with whom she works, "What class are you good at?"

She doesn't necessarily mean classes in which they have an "A," but the ones they enjoy most.

Sometimes it takes looking at things through a less critical lens. We have an "A" in science, but we enjoy the challenge of English Lit, in which we have a B-, which energizes us to try and bring up the grade.

7. 'It's not your family': Parents are the ultimate artery of support

Eugene Glisky, Martindale's father, had his ashes buried on the field where he coached near Toronto. She suspects he changed the lives of many young men.

But she stops short of calling a team a family.

"When a coach says to a parent, 'I'm gonna treat your son or daughter like my own,' I want to say, 'No, thank you. I don't need you to treat my son like he's your own,' " Martindale says. "He has a great father. What I really want you to do is treat him like a player and a human being.

"It's a team, which is amazing and Ilovemy kid being part of a team. But it's not a family. Why? Because what happens when your family cuts you?"

There are times when we need to be Coach, and times when we need to be Mom or Dad. Martindale had to be Coach when Judson, her oldest who now plays basketball for Manchester Basketball Club in the United Kingdom, came out of a game when he was younger and looked at her like, "Why are you pulling me?

He threw his water bottle, and she turned and said: "You can take your sneakers off. You're done."

The same coach, though, drove him home from a different game, criticizing him for what he didn't do while failing to realize he was sick.

"So many examples of total failure by me," she says. "What kind of mother would be talking to their kid about some offensive set when clearly they needed a mother?"

8. 'Your influence is not neutral, parents'; don't disrupt a happy kid

Levy, North Carolina's women's lacrosse coach, does parent Zoom calls. Before the first one, she asked her players what they wanted her to tell them.

"They said, 'We don't want to talk about the game at the tailgate after,' " Levy told Martindale. " 'We don't want any parent to have this sad conversation after the wins because their kid didn't play. We want the parents to sit together. We want them to be positive on the sideline.' "

Levy says the players gave her a Letterman top 10 of parent no-no's, which she shared on the Zoom.

"I think they were pretty shocked," says Levy, who coaches her daughter, Kate, on the team. "Our kids were like, 'Last year was not OK. This is what we want and this is what we need this year.'

"And then if we saw it, I had permission from our players to call the parent and say, 'Hey, you're at the tailgate and your behavior was below the line for our program.'

"What if I acted like that as a parent? What if I did that in the middle of a tailgate?"

Levy's point: A kid could be completely happy but if the parent is unhappy with their role, then the kid's unhappy. And if the parent isn't feeling like their kid is getting a fair shake, or they're being really negative toward coaches or teammates, the kid internalizes the feeling.

"Your influence is not neutral, parents," Levy says.

9. We can use even a little bit of winning to fuel us

During a clip Martindale shared of her speaking to athletes, she says, "There has to be wins in there. Otherwise, you can't go an entire season and be like, 'If we don't win a game, this whole season is a waste.' "

She is not necessarily talking about checks in the "W" column as much as what we perceive as personal wins. Maybe you tell a teammate you loved the way he blocked a punt or moved into position on defense. If we don't have wins, even within losses, you don't learn how to win.

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10. So what's the secret sauce?

Martindale believes there are five pillars of mental fitness: 1. Staying in the moment; 2. Controlling the controllables; 3. Seeing mistakes as opportunities; 4. Not judging yourself (or others) too harshly and 5. Comparison (positively).

She says she was once a failure at all of them. Has she since learned a special ingredient we need to have to play college sports?

Martindale thinks Angela Duckworth, director of the Penn-WhartonBehavior Change for Good Initiative, said it best.

"It's grit," Martindale has said. "I'm obsessed with grit, because we know it's a single defining characteristic of successful people.

"Can you get up after you get knocked down? The athletes who are successful at every level of college, I think, have this kind of dog mentality that is about grit. And of course, you have to be skilled and you have to be athletic but when we really look at who performs best when it counts,it's people who have failed. Over and over and over. And then now they succeed."

We can't beat our kids up over mistakes. Let them hear the voice in their head that gives them the grace to move forward from them.

Then, as Martindale says: "Watch them fail and then watch what they do after they fail."

Borelli, aka Coach Steve, has been an editor and writer with USA TODAY since 1999. He spent 10 years coaching his two sons' baseball and basketball teams. He and his wife, Colleen, are now sports parents for two high schoolers. His Coach Steve column is posted weekly.For his past columns, click here.

Got a question for Coach Steve you want answered in a column? Email him atsborelli@usatoday.com

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Week 16 fantasy WR rankings: Best starts at wide receiver

One of the more amazing comeback stories of the 2025 NFL season belongs toTampa Bay Buccaneerswide receiver Mike Evans.

The veteran suffered a broken collarbone in Week 7 and was believed to be out for the rest of the year. However, he returned to the field last week and led the team with 132 receiving yards on six catches − despite playing just over half of the offensive snaps.

Evans could be a focal point again this week as Tampa Bay faces theCarolina Panthersin a showdown for control of the NFC South.

(Rankings by Elisha Twerski, whose completeWeek 16 rankings for every positionwill be updated up until kickoff on Sunday.)

QB Josh Allen, Buffalo Bills: 334.5 fantasy points

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> QB Patrick Mahomes, Kansas City Chiefs: 285.7 fantasy points

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> QB Drake Maye, New England Patriots: 280.1 fantasy points

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> QB Matthew Stafford, Los Angeles Rams: 280.1 fantasy points

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> QB Dak Prescott, Dallas Cowboys: 271.2 fantasy points

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> RB Christian McCaffrey, San Francisco 49ers: 344.2 fantasy points

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> RB Jonathan Taylor, Indianapolis Colts: 322.1 fantasy points

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> RB Jahmyr Gibbs, Detroit Lions: 317.4 fantasy points

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> RB Bijan Robinson, Atlanta Falcons: 293.8 fantasy points

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> RB De'Von Achane, Miami Dolphins: 290.6 fantasy points

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Seattle Seahawks: 305.7 fantasy points

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> WR Puka Nacua, Los Angeles Rams: 286.8 fantasy points

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> WR Amon-Ra St. Brown, Detroit Lions: 274.9 fantasy points

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> WR George Pickens, Dallas Cowboys: 252.2 fantasy points

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> WR Ja'Marr Chase, Cincinnati Bengals: 245.1 fantasy points

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> TE Trey McBride, Arizona Cardinals: 272.1 fantasy points

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> TE Travis Kelce, Kansas City Chiefs: 178.8 fantasy points

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> TE Jake Ferguson, Dallas Cowboys: 170.5 fantasy points

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> TE Kyle Pitts, Atlanta Falcons: 176.7 fantasy points

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> TE Tyler Warren, Indianapolis Colts: 165.6 fantasy points

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> K Jason Myers, Seattle Seahawks: 171 fantasy points

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> K Brandon Aubrey, Dallas Cowboys: 151.6 fantasy points

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> K Cameron Dicker, Los Angeles Chargers: 141 fantasy points

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> K Ka'imi Fairbairn, Houston Texans: 133 fantasy points

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> K Chase McLaughlin, Tampa Bay Buccaneers: 125 fantasy points

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Seattle Seahawks D/ST: 149 fantasy points

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Houston Texans D/ST: 127 fantasy points

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Jacksonville Jaguars D/ST: 118 fantasy points

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Los Angeles Rams D/ST: 110 fantasy points

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Pittsburgh Steelers D/ST: 110 fantasy points

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The top 5 fantasy football scorers at each position in PPR formats

QB Josh Allen, Buffalo Bills: 334.5 fantasy points

Week 16 fantasy football wide receiver rankings

1. Puka Nacua (LAR) at SEA

2. Amon-Ra St. Brown (DET) vs. PIT

3. Jaxon Smith-Njigba (SEA) vs. LAR

4. Ja'Marr Chase (CIN) at MIA

5. Nico Collins (HOU) vs. LV

6. Mike Evans (TB) at CAR

7. Michael Wilson (ARI) vs. ATL

8. CeeDee Lamb (DAL) vs. LAC

9. A.J. Brown (PHI) at WAS

10. Jameson Williams (DET) vs. PIT

11. DK Metcalf (PIT) at DET

12. Jaylen Waddle (MIA) vs. CIN

13. Chris Olave (NO) vs. NYJ

14. Courtland Sutton (DEN) vs. JAC

15. Jauan Jennings (SF) at IND

16. Tetairoa McMillan (CAR) vs. TB

17. Christian Watson (GB) at CHI

18. George Pickens (DAL) vs. LAC

19. Zay Flowers (BAL) vs. NE

20. Ladd McConkey (LAC) at DAL

21. Terry McLaurin (WAS) vs. PHI

22. DeVonta Smith (PHI) at WAS

23. Jakobi Meyers (JAC) at DEN

24. Justin Jefferson (MIN) at NYG

25. DJ Moore (CHI) vs. GB

26. Wan'Dale Robinson (NYG) vs. MIN

27. Chris Godwin Jr. (TB) at CAR

28. Brian Thomas Jr. (JAC) at DEN

29. Adonai Mitchell (NYJ) at NO

30. Jayden Reed (GB) at CHI

31. Michael Pittman Jr. (IND) vs. SF

32. Emeka Egbuka (TB) at CAR

33. Troy Franklin (DEN) vs. JAC

34. Xavier Worthy (KC) at TEN

35. Deebo Samuel Sr. (WAS) vs. PHI

36. Jordan Addison (MIN) at NYG

37. Stefon Diggs (NE) at BAL

38. Luther Burden III (CHI) vs. GB

39. Khalil Shakir (BUF) at CLE

40. Keenan Allen (LAC) at DAL

41. Jalen Coker (CAR) vs. TB

42. Rashid Shaheed (SEA) vs. LAR

43. Jerry Jeudy (CLE) vs. BUF

44. Jayden Higgins (HOU) vs. LV

45. Darnell Mooney (ATL) at ARI

46. Kayshon Boutte (NE) at BAL

47. Romeo Doubs (GB) at CHI

48. Darius Slayton (NYG) vs. MIN

49. John Metchie III (NYJ) at NO

50. Matthew Golden (GB) at CHI

51. Chimere Dike (TEN) vs. KC

52. David Sills V (ATL) at ARI

53. Josh Downs (IND) vs. SF

54. Tre Tucker (LV) at HOU

55. Andrei Iosivas (CIN) at MIA

56. Jalen McMillan (TB) at CAR

57. Mack Hollins (NE) at BAL

58. Olamide Zaccheaus (CHI) vs. GB

59. Dontayvion Wicks (GB) at CHI

60. Cooper Kupp (SEA) vs. LAR

61. Alec Pierce (IND) vs. SF

62. Ryan Flournoy (DAL) vs. LAC

63. Elic Ayomanor (TEN) vs. KC

64. Malik Washington (MIA) vs. CIN

65. Tre Harris (LAC) at DAL

66. Xavier Legette (CAR) vs. TB

67. Marvin Mims Jr. (DEN) vs. JAC

68. Christian Kirk (HOU) vs. LV

69. Parker Washington (JAC) at DEN

70. Isaac TeSlaa (DET) vs. PIT

71. Keon Coleman (BUF) at CLE

72. Jack Bech (LV) at HOU

73. Mitch Tinsley (CIN) at MIA

74. Calvin Austin III (PIT) at DET

75. DeMario Douglas (NE) at BAL

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