Monday marks the final day of the 2018 NFL Scouting Combine as the defensive backs measure themselves against each other and prior-year performances. That doesn’t mean we have to wait to pull off our next mock draft exercise using the majority of the results.

Combine numbers will greatly alter big boards all across the interwebs, to a much bigger degree than they will the opinions of NFL teams. Once insiders start to get inklings of how NFL teams are shaping their boards (that hasn’t happened yet), then things will start to lean back towards tape over measurables.

For now, the big boards haven’t adjusted for the combine results, so it’s a sweet spot of sorts. Once again, we used Fanspeak’s On The Clock Premium Simulator and this time we went five rounds.

We repeat: You’ll hear up and down how there’s no way these players last until these draft spots, and while it may ultimately end up that way, expect some regression to the mean before the draft arrives.

No. 19: D.J. Moore, WR, Maryland

Moore was already a leading candidate for the Cowboys to take with their first selection, ranking No. 19 on our pre-combine big board devoid of quarterbacks and running backs. Then, he went out and measured two inches taller than anyone expected and laid waste to the combine. Yahtzee.

HT WT ARM HAND 40 20 SS 3-CONE VERT BROAD BENCH 6000 210 31.625 9 4.42 4.07 6.95 39.5 132 15

Adding Moore to the receiving corps could be everything the Cowboys offense needs for a jump start. He doesn’t have the prototypical size Dallas prefers to aid in blocking, but he’ll be a benefit to the philosophy by finally adding a multi-dimensional receiver who can threaten a defense vertically.

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