Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman said he was surprised his former team didn't take lightning-rod quarterback Johnny Manziel.
“I thought there was a real good chance if [Manziel] fell to the Cowboys’ pick that [Jerry Jones] would take him,” Aikman said at a United Way event at AT&T Stadium.
I understand why they didn’t," Aikman said. "It would have certainly added a lot of excitement around here, but I don’t think it would have been best for the club, certainly not in the short term. There’s a lot of other needs, as we saw last year, that this team has, so it was probably the right thing not taking him, but I was a little surprised. I think that had to have been a difficult decision for Jerry.”
