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Cowboys wide receiver Patrick Crayton is dealing with a crisis Wednesday night.

Crayton, who will compete for Dallas' No. 2 wideout spot this summer, is searching for his missing 25-year old cousin. Brannon Crayton, who has autism, was last seen on Wednesday afternoon in his hometown of Richardson, Texas.

Crayton said his cousin wouldn't hurt anyone and is harmless, but wants him to return home safely.

Who moved to the head of the NFL class during the draft? Find out with FanHouse's team-by-team 2009 Draft Grades.

Jerry Jones might be a little eccentric, but the guy can spot talent. When it isn't top picks like Troy Aikman or Emmitt Smith coming to the Cowboys, it is undrafted guys like Tony Romo or late third-round guys like Jason Witten. Even Patrick Crayton in the seventh round was a success for Dallas.

This year, the Cowboys traded down, but didn't really snag anyone that is going to blow your hair back. Jason Williams of Western Illinois is a player that might see some time for Dallas this season. In college, Williams was a fumble-forcing machine, knocking loose six his senior seasons.

Another NFL draft has come and gone, and it's possible that you spent much of your weekend glued to a television set laughing at the Raiders and screaming for your team to find the next Tom Brady at the bottom of the sixth-round. If you're like me, you live in an area of the country where your only option for draft day coverage is ESPN's wire-to-wire mayhem.

If you happened to miss the draft, or watched it on the NFL Network, here's what you missed.

Matt Jones has been out of work for three days now, but rangy wide receivers who can run -- even the mediocre, seemingly apathetic ones -- are forever at a premium. And that probably means he won't be jobless for long.

The New York Daily News' Bob Glauber writes that the Jets and Cowboys -- two teams in need of big-play threats -- could be interested in Jones' services. It sounds like nothing more than speculation at this point, but the Jets gave Laveranues Coles his release earlier this month, and they don't have a legit No. 1 wideout currently on the roster. They also don't have a legit No. 1 quarterback, so maybe it doesn't matter.

Just because the Terrell Owens era is over in Dallas doesn't mean we're finished talking about it. In fact, depending on how the 2009 season unfolds for the Cowboys, we could be hearing about T.O. for a while. Good times.

Owner and self-appointed team spokesman Jerry Jones commented last week that releasing Owens made the offense "Romo-friendly." Not only that, Jones is apparently under the impression that the wide receivers currently on the roster are more than adequate. Via the Dallas Morning News' Tim Cowlishaw:

Presumably, there is a method to Jerry Jones' madness. The Cowboys' owner also serves as general manager even though he was in the oil business prior to buying the team in 1989. And it's this perceived lack of experience that sometimes makes him an easy target.

Because the NFL season never ends, we present our 2009 Offseason Roadmaps for front offices to navigate through the summer.

It was improbable. The Baltimore Ravens made another playoff run in 2008 based on a defense that used the art of suffocation (oh, and Ed Reed) and an offense that improved dramatically over the previous years. John Harbaugh was impressive as coach, putting a rookie quarterback out to toss the ball around and sticking with him through thick (17-29, 248 yards, 2 TDs in Week 9) and thin (11-28, 115 yards, 2 INTs in Week 15).

Now the team has to figure out what to do about a superstar in Ray Lewis, and how they should handle other important positional players (hello Mr. Stover) in order to return to (and move past) the AFC Championship game without their defensive coordinator.

Keyshawn Johnson, for all his antics on the field as a player, is quickly making himself famous for his brash and bold commentary in the studio. ESPN, I'm sure, is just distraught over this behavior.

Recently, Key called out Jake Delhomme for 'trust' issues and, well, I could list the folks, but it's pretty much everyone. Now he's turned his expertise towards Jon Gruden and Terrell Owens. Namely, he doesn't really think that Chucky has what it takes to coach the Dallas Cowboys. And he doesn't think T.O. is really "good" for Big D.

Somehow, no matter the topic, the conversation always comes back to Terrell Owens. Yesterday, the Cowboys canned defensive coordinator Brian Stewart for Wade Phillips' and Jason Garrett's failings, and today, we're talking about ... T.O. Naturally.

During a Saturday radio interview, former Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson said that Owens "... used to be an outstanding player, a great player ... He is still a good player, but you have to weigh the distractions and whether or not he divides the locker room and the problems that he has."

Cowboys wide receiver Patrick Crayton appeared on SportsCenter this afternoon, and, predictably, the conversation was about teammate-for-now Terrell Owens. Speculation has Dallas parting ways with T.O. this offseason, partly because he's 35 and due a $3.1 million roster bonus in June, but mostly due to the fact that nobody on the coaching staff can keep him on task.

Crayton said that T.O. was a "great influence" on teammates and that the locker room chemistry was "just fine," but admitted that "I Love Me Some Me"'s relationship with the coaches was "a little rocky."

You don't say.