The Cowboys landed a playmaker they've sorely needed in their receiving corps with last week's trade for George Pickens.

It didn't take the club's chief operating officer Stephen Jones long to make a comparison to a Cowboys legend when explaining why they traded for Pickens, Nick Shook of NFL.com reports.

"Well first of all we look at him, it's just two starting receivers out there, we don't necessarily even think -- we think of him as more than a two, when we were looking at the deal," Jones said during an appearance on SiriusXM's Mad Dog Sports Radio. "Certainly we looked at the draft in terms of scratching an itch, seeing what might be available there in the draft, but here you get a guy who's got experience, who's had great success in the NFL, obviously a tremendous competitor. He reminds a lot in our building of Dez Bryant, in terms of his competitiveness and what he brings to the field, his edge.

"And as I said we were looking at the draft as a way to look at filling that need. When it didn't happen, you know we had some opportunities around the league that we were looking at, and this one at the end of the day made the most sense. Whether it was coach (Brian) Schottenheimer and his offensive staff looking at him, whether (vice president of player personnel) Will McClay and the personnel group, obviously Jerry (Jones) and myself, felt like this was the best action for us, and certainly one that made a lot of sense to us."

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