It’s never not a good day when the New York Giants and their fans can have a laugh at the expense of the Dallas Cowboys. Their hated division rivals make a lot of noise for a team that teeters on mediocrity better than most, but Jerry Jones is gonna Jerry -- nobody does it better than the 83-year-old owner.
He’s routinely dragged for his head-scratching trades, and now that the 2026 Draft is over, the Jordan Phillips trade between the G-Men and Cowboys, made back in August of 2024, has now been finalized, and it looks like another Jerry-led disaster now that everything’s settled.
The trade: New York sends DT Jordan Phillips and a 2026 seventh-round pick (221st pick) to Dallas for a 2026 sixth-round pick (193rd pick):
Big Blue selected Jack Kelly, a linebacker out of BYU, with the 193rd pick, while the Cowboys traded the 221st pick to the Cincinnati Bengals at last year’s trade deadline for linebacker Logan Wilson, who played seven games, had 24 tackles, and then retired after the season.
Dallas got two games out of Phillips before releasing him, and a linebacker who retired after playing seven games for the 193rd pick. I’m not here to declare a winner of the trade, but if I were, it’s the Giants, and it’s not even close.
Giants come out ahead of Cowboys in the Jordan Phillips trade
Big Blue signed Phillips as a free agent in April 2024 to a one-year deal. He was brought in to provide some veteran defensive line depth, following Brian Daboll and Joe Schoen from Buffalo. His time in North Jersey didn't last long, as he was traded to the Cowboys just four months later.
This has to be one of those “I wish I had that one back” trades that Jerry Jones has been so good at making. He essentially traded two draft picks away for nothing. They cut Phillips, and Wilson is out of the league. Good thing they gave the Giants a sixth and the Bengals a seventh.
Don't say the Cowboys have never done anything for the G-Men.
To recap, the G-Men came away with Kelly. The Bengals, with the seventh-round pick received in the Wilson trade, took Texas tight end Jack Endries. The Cowboys sat around twiddling their thumbs.
Dallas has needed a serviceable linebacker for years, following Leighton Vander Esch’s retirement. They thought they were getting that when they made the move for Wilson.
The irony of it all is that the linebacker-needy Cowboys could have just held onto that pick and taken a developmental linebacker like Kelly themselves, but chose the theatrics route because they’re not a real football team -- they’re a reality show.
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