As a kid, assuming your goal is to play professional sports, you almost always dream of being drafted by your hometown team.
And while the Dallas Cowboys may not technically be the hometown team of Johnny Manziel, they’re the team he grew up rooting for. So when rumors leaked suggesting the Cowboys could draft the Texas native, the A&M product was probably quite excited.
Manziel expressed such a sentiment to Pro Football Live on Thursday afternoon, suggesting that it would be ‘really, really cool’ to be drafted by the Cowboys but that he’s not stuck on the idea either.
"“I mean anything is possible,” Manziel told PFT Live on Thursday. “I think all 32 teams are in play, you never know. Some of these teams, they’ve done way wackier things than that. For me it would really, really cool to go there, but not something I have stuck in my head. Jerry Jones has been extremely nice to me. He’s treated me very, very well and we’ve developed a little bit of a friendship over the past year and a half, just going to games or whatever it be.”"
Given what we’ve heard today, it looks as if Manziel will not be available when the Cowboys’ No. 16 selection comes around, so if there’s any hope of Manziel in Big D it’ll likely need to come in the form of a trade.