The Cowboys’ season is in shambles, and their answer is to make of the weirdest, most-hilarious trades of the season. On Tuesday morning it was introduced that the Carolina Panthers had been buying and selling WR Jonathan Mingo and a seventh spherical decide to Dallas in alternate for a 4th spherical decide in 2025.
There’s no use mincing phrases right here: Mingo was a bust. The Panthers vastly over-drafted him in 2023 beneath their earlier horrible GM Scott Fitterer, and at no level did Mingo seem like a succesful NFL receiver past somebody you’d bury deep on the depth chart. His choice by Carolina was a trait-based decide hoping they’d get all the most effective elements of his movie, and not one of the draw back.
That by no means labored out, as Mingo was handed on the depth chart by rookie Xavier Legette, then standout undrafted free agent Jalen Coker, and at last depth receiver David Moore. It’s completely wild that any workforce would see sufficient in Mingo to commerce for him, not to mention a 4th spherical decide — however Jerry Jones believes in him.
Jerry Jones stated the Cowboys will greater than possible add a receiver right this moment within the commerce deadline. Stated the participant was somebody they actually favored in the course of the draft course of when the participant got here out.
— Todd Archer (@toddarcher) November 5, 2024
So what precisely are the Cowboys getting in Jonathan Mingo? Nicely, he’s a big-bodied human being. The enhances finish there.
Mingo is a gradual route runner who strikes as if he’s knee-deep in molasses. He’s not an instinctive participant at getting open downfield. When the ball is within the air he doesn’t excessive level or battle for the catch within the air, routinely getting 50/50 balls damaged up by smaller receivers he ought to completely dominate.
The trajectory of his profession was to sit down on the again finish of the Panthers depth chart for the rest of his rookie contract earlier than getting launched. In some way Carolina discovered a option to get a excessive decide for him. In the meantime Cowboys followers aren’t taking his deal effectively.
The Cowboys simply bailed out the Panthers from a horrible draft decide. It’s really astonishing that any workforce would make a deal this unhealthy.