The Dallas Cowboys got to work early on trade deadline day, only to get immediately bashed for the first move they made.
Early Tuesday morning, the Cowboys acquired Panthers wide receiver Jonathan Mingo and a 2025 seventh-round pick in exchange for a 2025 fourth-round pick to Carolina, a person familiar with the transaction confirmed to The Dallas Morning News.
The move wasn’t received well on social media.
“The Dallas Cowboys gave up more to get Jonathan Mingo than the Kansas City Chiefs did to get DeAndre Hopkins. Lord have mercy,” former Heisman Trophy winner at Baylor and ESPN analyst Robert Griffin III posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.
The Chiefs announced their trade for Hopkins on Oct. 24, sending the Titans a conditional fifth-round draft pick.
According to NFL Network, another NFL GM said Mingo is “talented. A little raw. Comp is too much…like way too much.”
Mingo, 23, was the No. 39 overall pick in the 2023 NFL draft to Carolina out of Ole Miss. He appeared in 15 games in his rookie season making 43 catches for 418 yards.
The 6-2, 220-pound pass-catcher has 12 receptions for 121 yards this season and still hasn’t found the endzone in his NFL career.
Others online were quick to point out the fourth-round pick Dallas just relinquished to Carolina was a higher pick than they received when trading away five-time Pro Bowl receiver Amari Cooper in 2022.
Here’s a look at some more reaction from social media:
Jonathan Mingo's 0.75 Yards per Route Run is dead last for any WR that has caught 50+ passes since 2000
— The 33rd Team (@The33rdTeamFB) November 5, 2024
526th out of 526 😳 https://t.co/thYcVxAVO3 pic.twitter.com/0xTgwHFlR2
The #Cowboys traded their 2025 4th round pick to Carolina for this guy.
— Newy Scruggs (@newyscruggs) November 5, 2024
I just don’t get this. Mingo is JAG. pic.twitter.com/odfw0HIu7l
With the QB going on IR, the Cowboys just traded next year’s 4 so….they can maybe get to 7-10?
— Tim Cowlishaw (@TimCowlishaw) November 5, 2024
When’s the last time Dallas outsmarted someone in one of these? https://t.co/HLqckiZ1lN
The Cowboys have traded two 4th round picks for Trey Lance and Jonathan Mingo. I don’t get it at all.
— Master (@MasterTes) November 5, 2024
You ever write the essay on your way to school? https://t.co/O15z1YXoHT
— David Helman (@davidhelman_) November 5, 2024
The Dallas Cowboys gave up more to get Jonathan Mingo than the Kansas City Chiefs did to get DeAndre Hopkins. Lord have mercy.
— Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) November 5, 2024
A fourth?!?! https://t.co/LClS37Qpqq
— Ben Baby (@Ben_Baby) November 5, 2024
I asked a GM of another team his thoughts on the Cowboys trade for Jonathan Mingo. The thoughts were something “Talented. A little raw. Comp is too much…like way too much. Basically a net 5th. Probably is most like Tolbert of the guys there.” The GM goes on to say “Just my…
— Jane Slater (@SlaterNFL) November 5, 2024
I know that my WR stats are not divorced from QB play but last year Mingo had the second-lowest receiving DYAR in a season EVER. This year he has 12 receptions. How on earth is this worth a fourth-round pick? https://t.co/M7RrKKny6K
— Aaron Schatz 🏈 (@ASchatzNFL) November 5, 2024
Jonathan Mingo had such a wide variance of pre-draft projections among NFL teams.
— Dane Brugler (@dpbrugler) November 5, 2024
Some believed he was a top-50 pick. Others thought he was more of a late 3rd, early 4th type of prospect. The Cowboys were in the first group. https://t.co/uFUURmjUyQ
Cowboys 4th round pick trades the last 2 years
— Skywalker Steele (@SkywalkerSteele) November 5, 2024
Trey Lance
Jonathan Mingo
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Hopkins traded for a conditional 5th
Cooper traded (to Cleveland) for a 5th- to Buf for a 3rd
Adams a 3rd
Za'Darius Smith- 2026 5th
Uche-2026 6th
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So Carolina traded their Wr 1 to Baltimore, swapping a 5 and 6.
— Voch Lombardi (@VochLombardi) November 5, 2024
Then Carolina traded their wr 5 to Dallas, swapping a 4 and a 7
This is nonsense https://t.co/QkWlt3pFxn
It’s not the same splash the Cowboys made a few years ago when they acquired Amari Cooper before the trade deadline, but Dallas did make a move for a WR.
— David Moore (@DavidMooreDMN) November 5, 2024
Can confirm that Cowboys have acquired Jonathan Mingo & a 7th round pick from Carolina in exchange for a 4th.
This will shock no one but:
— RJ Ochoa (@rjochoa) November 5, 2024
The Dallas Cowboys spent more to acquire Jonathan Mingo than they got in exchange for Amari Cooper.
By trading Jonathan Mingo to the Cowboys the Panthers moved on from a player who had only 12 catches for 121 yards and no touchdowns this season, a player that had only a 32.9 % success rate as a rookie in 2023 with 43 catches on 85 targets for 418 yards and no touchdowns.
— David Newton (@DNewtonespn) November 5, 2024
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