“Probably the best day of my life, pound for pound. So getting the call from Jones during the first round of the draft came as a wonderful surprise. He and the Cowboys had limited interaction during the pre-draft process he wasn’t a 30 visit, nor did he attend Dallas Day for local prospects. But he’s eager to make his own mark on the game after leaving two years of college eligibility on the table to turn pro just days after his 21st birthday.īut the Fort Worth native wasn’t sure he’d be playing for his hometown team. 73 /8sdjEl6yuEĪ self-professed student of the game who can’t wait to dissect game film and binges football documentaries, Smith says his favorite player to watch on tape is Barry Sanders. New Cowboys OL Tyler Smith will be wearing No. I feel like I resonate with a lot of that, so it means a lot to be able to wear that and be able to carry on the lineage there, for sure.” I’ve seen a lot of the adversity that he went through in his life. It’s an honor to wear that number,” Smith said of his No.
“It’s eerie to me, some of the similarities,” team owner Jerry Jones said as he introduced Smith, “sitting here, sitting with you, as when Tyron Smith came from Southern Cal.”Īnd to add to the youngster’s motivation, the Cowboys are already putting him in the uniform of one of the top linemen to ever wear the star. To help him get there, they’ll line him up alongside the left tackle of the present, an eight-time Pro Bowler. The Cowboys drafted Smith to be the team’s left tackle of the future. He seems intent on turning expectations inside out, whether it’s waxing philosophic about football history, matter-of-factly describing his mauling style of play, or slipping in a perfectly-timed off-color joke. Over the course of a 20-minute introductory press conference Friday, Tulsa tackle Tyler Smith had team owner Jerry Jones, head coach Mike McCarthy, and even the Dallas media eating out of his hand. It’s suddenly a lovefest in Frisco as the Cowboys’ stunner of a first-round draft pick wasted no time making new fans with his magnetic personality.
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