The 3– 4 Cowboys wound up in a comparative vessel as Houston, severely needing an update at their paper-thin recipient position on the off chance that they would make a keep running at the generally totally open NFC East. Jon Gruden misused that circumstance, some way or another finagling a 2019 first-round choose of Jerry and Stephen Jones for troubled pass-catcher Cooper. While skilled, the profoundly conflicting 24-year-old had a flawed, best case scenario future with the reconstructing Raiders. Oakland confronted a major decision: Cut lure toward the year's end and get nothing, or clutch Cooper into 2019, ensuring his fifth-year choice compensation of $13.9 million — once more, an immense measure of cash for a player who has recorded 10 or less getting yards in three separate diversions this year as of now. Now that is a choice the Cowboys must make.