With the 2024 season in the rear-view mirror, many Dallas fans are looking toward the 2025 NFL Draft for optimism, and one name keeps coming up. Heisman finalist Ashton Jeanty is consistently connected to the Cowboys,

"I would love to play for the Cowboys,'' the Frisco kid Ashton Jeanty reiterated this weekend. "It would be like a dream come true.''

If many Cowboys fans get their wish then Dallas will use that 12th pick on someone who played their final game against Penn State this season in Boise State running back Ashton Jeanty. Throughout all of this past college football season Jeanty was ripping off insane performance after insane performance and as a result he finds himself firmly in the mix of the top names entering the draft.

Throughout much of the college football season, there was little question who the best running back in the nation was.

Ashton Jeanty has told the Dallas Cowboys to come get him as it would be "a dream come true" to play for his hometown team.

Boise State running back Ashton Jeanty made a big ask of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones ahead of the 2025 NFL Draft. Dallas faces an uncertain offseason as Mike McCarthy is negotiating with the franchise about a potential return.