Dallas Cowboys get Deuce Vaughn, son of team scout, in 6th round of NFL draft - ESPN

FRISCO, Texas — For a brief moment, Chris Vaughn did not know what was happening when Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones asked him to turn in the team's card for their sixth-round pick. After all, the picks are now automated.

But when his colleagues stood up around the draft room and Jones symbolically tossed him a napkin as if it were the card, Vaughn realized the team was ready to select his son, Deuce, a running back out of Kansas State, at No. 212 overall on Saturday.

Vaughn, the Cowboys' assistant director of college scouting, was given the privilege of calling Deuce with the news.

«Look here, man, do you want to come to work with me next week?» Vaughn, his voice cracking, asked his son on video from the team's draft room.

«I wouldn't mind that at all,» Deuce answered.

Jones has been part of more than 30 drafts as the team's owner and general manager. He has presided over No. 1 overall picks and a number of high-level trades.

«I've never had an experience like that in the draft room. Ever,» Jones said.

Said head coach Mike McCarthy, «In 30 years of this league, I've never seen anything like that. That was a very special moment.»

Leading into the draft, Vaughn, who has been with the Cowboys since 2017, did not write a report on his son. When the Cowboys discussed him in their meetings, he left. He did not want to influence the direction in any way. Just before the Cowboys were on the clock, Vaughn was starting to head up the team's undrafted free-agent process and he was not in the draft room.

In a side hallway, his son called him and he could tell the emotions of not being selected started to affect him. Chris put aside the scout in him and became the father, pumping up his son.

By the time Chris