NFL Media's Chad Reuter released a seven-round mock draft that focuses on building a winning team from active players for the upcoming season. The draft order was based on the 2025 NFL draft's first round, with trades and lost picks reversed. The subsequent rounds used a snake order to balance talent.

America’s Team prefers to build the bulk of their roster by way of the NFL draft, which is certainly sound in theory, and in their defense they have good reason to believe that. The Cowboys have been a very good drafting team as of late, but they have been a particularly good drafting team across the whole of NFL history.