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With the NFL trade deadline quickly approaching, Jerry Jones said a lot Tuesday regarding the Dallas Cowboys’ potential involvement.

When first asked during his weekly radio interview about the likelihood of the Cowboys’ making any moves, Jones tempered expectations.

“It’ll have to come our way,” he said on 105.3 The Fan in Dallas. “I don’t want to preclude it in any way, but it always does.”

Jones went on to explain how getting a deal done at this time of year “principally has to start on the other end.”

“That’s not showing a lack of aggressiveness,” he added, “it’s just that’s where it starts. I like where we are with our personnel today. I’m not thinking in any way that we need to upgrade our roster.”

But in true Jones fashion, a later answer in the same interview about a similar topic came with a response that sounded a little different.

“I would really extend to improve our team right now, so that gives you an idea,” he said. “Because I think we have a team that’s a contender. Would I do something that would take away from this team so that it could help us in the future? Possibly not.”

Jones was basically saying he would like to add to the roster and is less likely to give a current player away in exchange for future draft picks.

Considering the Cowboys’ roster and where they sit after seven weeks (4-2), it would make a lot of sense to add to the current group in some areas of need. And considering how wide open the NFC is and how it’s been 27 years since the Cowboys played in the Super Bowl, it would make a lot of sense to be even more risky to add something now that could put them over the top in January.

Though it’s still more likely to be a Hankins-type move than a Cooper-type move, for this story, we’re focusing on the bigger names. We’re talking about the type of player who could make the Cowboys look back in January and say, “That helped put us over the top.”

These five names would fit those criteria.