Caelen Carson
Dallas CowboysPos CB
Updated August 24, 2026
Draft & College
Round 5, pick 174 · Dallas Cowboys · 2024
Wake Forest (ACC)
Taken
#174
where he actually went
Consensus board
116th
average of the public big boards that spring
Our college model
#739
among CB in our college data
He went about where consensus had him.
In college · 2020-2023 · 45 games
3 INT, 22 pass breakups, 113 tackles, 2 TFL
Covers the college seasons in our data, which does not always reach back to a player's first year.
What this pick usually becomes
Of the 500 players taken as a fifth or sixth-rounder between 2012 and 2021, 26% earned a second contract and 16% became starters. The median one started 2 career games.