Cowboys select East Carolina cornerback Shavon Revel Jr. in third round
The Dallas Cowboys selected East Carolina cornerback Shavon Revel Jr. in the third round of the 2025 NFL Draft at No. 76 overall.
“I put on a whole blue suit,” Revel said. “I was like, ‘Hey, it might be a chance I go to them ‘Boys.’ It was crazy though because me and my family were talking about it the whole time, the whole month, this whole year.”
Revel was considered a contender to be a first-round pick when his 2024 season began, but he tore his ACL a few weeks into the season and was sidelined for the rest of the year and the draft process. The surgery to repair his ACL was performed by the Cowboys’ team physician, Dr. Dan Cooper.
“Right now, I’m running straight lines,” he said. “I can’t lift heavy. I haven’t gotten into the breaks and cutting yet, but I’ve been cleared by Dr. Cooper to at least progress my way up into doing things like that. So now that I got time, whenever I go back home or when I get to the facility, I’ll work on those things.”
Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones said in Friday’s press conference that he expects that Revel will begin training camp on the Physically Unable to Perform (PUP) list to start training camp before making his way back before the team leaves Oxnard. In that scenario, the Cowboys would immediately be able to catch him up on the jump in competition from the American Athletic Conference to the NFL.
Had the injury not happened, Revel undoubtedly feels like he would have been a first-round pick.
“No doubt, no doubt,” he said. “I feel like the way I play is totally different.”
Revel fills a dire need at the cornerback position after the departure of Jourdan Lewis in free agency and the offseason knee surgery for Trevon Diggs. Now, Revel’s own health becomes another question mark.
Revel joins Alabama offensive guard Tyler Booker (first-round pick) and Boston College defensive end Donovan Ezeiruaku (second-round pick) as the selections made by the Dallas Cowboys in the first two days of the draft.
This story was originally published April 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM.
