Cowboys covet role as draft host at relocated HQ

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IRVING, Texas — The Dallas Cowboys are poised to move into their new headquarters, the Ford Center at The Star, later this year and hope the NFL draft will come to their Frisco, Texas, home in 2018.

The Cowboys will move into their new offices this summer. The team will then begin practicing there after returning from their training camp home in Oxnard, California.

The Cowboys are among a number of teams that have expressed interest in hosting the draft in the future, including Philadelphia, Denver, Green Bay, Jacksonville, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles and Canton, Ohio, according to a league spokesman.

The NFL expects to announce a decision on the 2017 location later this summer but does not have a timeframe in which they would name future sites.

Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones and executive vice president Stephen Jones have said earlier the team would …

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