The Dallas Cowboys tried to move back into end of first round to draft a quarterback, according to The Dallas Morning News' Brandon George.

Dallas drafted Ezekiel Elliott with the No. 4 pick.

When quarterback Paxton Lynch fell to No. 26, the Cowboys reportedly had interest. But the Denver Broncos traded up for the Seattle Seahawks pick to draft Lynch.

The Broncos sent Seattle the 31st pick and a third-round selection (No. 94).

Source: Cowboys tried to trade back into the first round tonight to draft Memphis QB Paxton Lynch. They're serious about getting a QB. — Brandon George (@DMN_George) April 29, 2016

Told by source close to Paxton Lynch that #Cowboys spent more time both with and on him in advance of #NFL draft than any other team — Ed Werder (@WerderEdESPN) April 29, 2016

Dallas Morning News writer Brandon George recently broke down why a move back into the first round would make sense.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones really believes Tony Romo will be the club’s starting quarterback for the next four to five years. No, really.

But they also know Romo’s recent run of injuries and the fact he just turned 36 years old means he’s not likely to play that long. So the organization does have urgency to find Romo’s eventual successor, and that could come as early as Thursday night in the first round of the draft.

Jared Goff and Carson Wentz - the top two quarterbacks in this draft - are expected to go first and second to the Rams and Eagles, respectively.

The Cowboys have the fourth overall pick Thursday and then the third pick of the second round Friday at 34th overall.

If the Cowboys really like Memphis quarterback Paxton Lynch - and the third-rated quarterback in this year’s draft is not off the board late Thursday - it would make sense for Dallas to trade up a few spots and draft him late in the first round even if he could still be available early in the second round.

That’s because first-round picks have fifth-year team options on their rookie contracts and second-round picks are only signed for four years. So, that would give the Cowboys an extra season of protection from developing a quarterback behind Romo and possibly losing him in free agency.

"We could pick a quarterback down from those first two there," Jones said Monday.

Jones also said that "it's not a high" priority for the Cowboys to draft a quarterback this year. What the Cowboys have done the last few months says otherwise. They've visited with at least 11 quarterbacks - find a team that has visited with more - and used 25 percent of their pre-draft visits (seven) on quarterbacks.

“Certainly not a high enough priority to make a bad decision or a forced decision,” Jones said. “On the other hand, Tony won’t play forever, but you can get real problematic if you brought a quarterback in here, developed him, you saw enough in the next three or four years but he really never got in and played, and then there he is, as you know, the most that we can probably sign him for would be five if he were the first pick or four later on, at best keeps your rights to him. Well, he is sitting there and he is in the free agent market. And you have a multi-million dollar decision to make and you really haven’t seen him under fire. That could happen. That decision might deal you an awkward place 36 months down the road. I like to say in months just to remind me how quick that decision will come, rather than years.

“So you early or substantively on the quarterback position have a potential, not dilemma, but a real problem ahead. I don’t know and no one knows if Tony, or if anyone else on this team, is going to be without injury, without injury that will limit their playing time over the next several years. We do feel very good with how he is doing.”

But good enough to wait another year to finally draft a quarterback? Probably not.

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