Dallas Cowboys pick former Basehor-Linwood High School football player: 2023 NFL Draft
A former Basehor-Linwood High School football standout has been drafted by the Dallas Cowboys during the 2023 NFL Draft in Kansas City.
The Cowboys took cornerback Eric Scott Jr. with the 178th pick during Saturday’s sixth round of the 2023 NFL Draft at Kansas City’s Union Station.
Scott, 6-foot-2 and 202 pounds, played college football at Southern Mississippi. In his final season at Southern Miss, Scott recorded 27 tackles with seven passes defensed. He returned two interceptions for touchdowns.
He was selected to participate in the East-West Shrine Game.
Getting the call from the Cowboys brought tears to Scott’s eyes, according to a story posted Saturday afternoon at Dallasnews.com:
“I was laying on the floor with a cover over my head … just staring at the TV, waiting on the phone call,” Scott said in a story written by Joseph Hoyt, “and it finally came and I just jumped off the floor and immediately tears started coming to my eyes. I tried to hold it in, but I couldn’t.”
.@ericscott12345 is ready to give it all he’s got. #CowboysDraft | @SeatGeek pic.twitter.com/8ILtZWoFGv
— Dallas Cowboys (@dallascowboys) April 29, 2023
As for his high school career back in Kansas, the Southern Miss website notes that Scott “appeared in a total of 33 games, registered 126 total tackles (108 solo and 18 assisted), 5.0 tackles for loss, nine interceptions, 13 pass deflections and averaged 3.8 tackles per game” during three seasons at Basehor-Linwood.
The Cowboys actually traded up a few spots — with Kansas City — to acquire Scott, sending a fifth-round pick in next year’s draft to the Chiefs in order to exchange sixth-round slots Saturday.
