SportsDay Cowboys beat writers Jon Machota and Brandon George are back with the latest edition of the Candidly Cowboys podcast to discuss first-round draft pick Taco Charlton.

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On the selection of Charlton

George: "I thought they needed to take a defensive lineman in the first round so I agreed with the pick. I like the pick as far as who was left among the defensive linemen. I don't know how much impact he's going to have right away. When you look at him, he obviously is a pass rusher first. He struggled a little bit against the run at Michigan. He's long and they love his length. He has almost 3-foot long arms. You'll hear about his length all the time. He's 6-6, 277, 34-inch arms, 33-inch vertical. So he's a freak athlete. They like that. But he can grow into his body more. I think he can put some more work in the weight room. He can put on a little more weight and carry that. I think he will be on the right side, defensive end. Now, does he start there right away? I don't know. The fact that he has not been great against the run, maybe you play him on just pass rushing downs early in his career, let him get going, get his feet underneath him before his kind of an every-down player for you. It'll be interesting to see how this all plays out. It's hard to see really how it'll play out. You got to see offseason practices and training camp before you can really get a feel for how he looks, where he's fitting in. But certainly he's a right-side defensive end.

"I think that the freak athleticism is what turned the Cowboys on to him and just the fact that they feel like he's on the rise. Basically you haven't seen the best of him. He started that one year at Michigan and that's partially a concern because he only got that one year to start but that first year he started he had 9.5 sacks. He was a difference maker so maybe this guy has a lot more to offer."

Machota: "And what he was doing at Michigan is similar to what the Cowboys are going to ask him to do. He's gonna know what's being asked from him as long as Rob Marinelli's the team's defensive coordinator. And the versatility to be able to move inside and play some tackle was intriguing. But basically for me it breaks down to three reasons why they liked him there. One is because of the size that Brandon mentioned. He's a freak athlete for that size and with those god given talents they believe he can be much improved with the coaching and developing as he gets older. The other fact would be they saw what he could do, the production at a big university, had 10 sacks in his last 10 games. So that projection was easier for them. It was easier than projecting what a T.J. Watt's going to do at this level. A guy that had been a linebacker the last couple years and before that was a tight end. So (Watt) went from tight end to linebacker and now they're going to try to work you in at the 4-3 right defensive end. There's a lot more projecting there. So he goes to the Steelers where is a better fit because they run a 3-4 scheme where he can be that outside linebacker.

"So I think that those are the big reasons why he fits for them. And then the other one would just be the fact of his versatility. He's not a guy that, okay, all this guy can do is just rush the passer. They think that with all the skills that he has and that he's shown already, he can do a varity of those things. One other thing that I would like to mention too is that Stephen Jones said that after him they really didn't like a lot that would be there. And that's where it became you knew they were going to get a defensive end, you knew they were going to get corners. And what there was going to be at cornerback at 60 they felt very confident was going to be a lot better than the pass rusher that was going to be at 60. And they were right by getting Chidobe Awuzie."