Cowboys Depth Chart: How Brandin Cooks & Stephon Gilmore Trades Change Dallas

Two trades have fortified the lineup in a very real way ... as our look at the new Dallas Cowboys depth chart featuring Brandin Cooks and Stephon Gilmore shows.

FRISCO - The Dallas Cowboys are this week in a double-cork-popping mood after the team first landed cornerback Stephon Gilmore via trade and on Sunday did it again, landing receiver Brandin Cooks.

The salaries are affordable. The sacrifice in trade are minor. The change in the depth chart?

Major.

To wit, as our friend The Athletic's Jon Machota pointed out (with our own version below) ...

OFFENSE

QB Dak Prescott

RB Tony Pollard 

WR CeeDee Lamb 

LT Tyron Smith 

LG Tyler Smith 

C Tyler Biadasz 

RG Zack Martin 

RT Terence Steele 

TE Jake Ferguson

WR Brandin Cooks

WR Michael Gallup 

DEFENSE

DE DeMarcus Lawrence 

DT Neville Gallimore 

DT Osa Odighizuwa 

DE Micah Parsons 

LB Leighton Vander Esch

LB Damone Clark 

CB Stephon Gilmore

S Jayron Kearse

S Malik Hooker

S Donovan Wilson

CB Trevon Diggs

CB DaRon Bland

There are some wildcards here. On defense? The Cowboys can't put in stone that Parsons is a defensive end, DB Jourdan Lewis deserves mention, and a run-stopping tackle could be added. (And maybe Quinton Bohanna deserves mention.) On offense? While it seems obvious to us that Tyron and Tyler Smith line up as mentioned above, there are whispers of other ideas.

But overall?

Two trades have fortified the lineup in a very real way ... with more moves to come.

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MIKE FISHER

Mike Fisher - as a newspaper beat writer and columnist and on radio and TV, where he is an Emmy winner - has covered the NFL since 1983 and the Dallas Cowboys since 1990, is the author of two best-selling books on the Cowboys.