Jerry Jones hinted during last year’s draft weekend that the Cowboys might bundle some picks together to grab a big-time receiver this April.

Jerry just didn’t wait until April to do it, shipping three picks to the Lions in October for Roy Williams and a seventh-rounder.

We’ll see whether Williams, who made minimal impact last season, was worth it. But the long-term logic was understandable: The Cowboys got a young, top-10 talent with some seasoning in Williams, the seventh overall pick in the 2004 draft.

How high could the Cowboys had moved up next month if they still had those picks? Using Pro Football Talk’s draft chart (a modernized version of the famous Jimmy Johnson chart) as a guide, the Cowboys’ first- and third-rounder could have gotten them into the mid-teens. (There is no significant difference in value between Dallas’ sixth and Detroit’s seventh.)

The Cowboys could have drafted Florida’s Percy Harvin or Maryland’s Darrius Hayward-Bey in the mid-teens. They might not have even had to trade up to get one of them, meaning they could have held on to their third-rounder.

To have a shot at one of the draft’s elite receivers (Texas Tech’s Michael Crabtree or Missouri’s Jeremy Maclin), the Cowboys would have had to add their second-round pick to the package they sent to the Lions.

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