Tony Romo will turn 36 in nine days, and an injury-riddled 2015 campaign exposed a lack of good depth behind him. The Dallas Cowboys clearly need to find a quarterback of the future, and the draft at the end of this month looks like an opportunity to bring someone into the fold.

Owner Jerry Jones has suggested the Cowboys won’t take a quarterback in the first round, but Bleacher Report’s Jason Cole has reported a “growing sense” that Dallas will target a signal-caller with the No. 4 overall pick.

Here’s a sampling of Cole’s report:

“According to a source I talked with on Tuesday, there’s a growing sense within the Cowboys organization that the team is serious about taking a quarterback and will consider taking that position at the No. 4 overall spot in the draft,” Cole reported. “The reason is, is that people within the organization believe that the Cowboys will not be this high in the draft anytime soon after this year. That they suffered a freakish season in which they lost both Tony Romo and Dez Bryant and that caused them to tumble severely.

Cole’s report comes on the heels of word from draft insider Tony Pauline that Carson Wentz is among the top three players on the Cowboys’ draft board, so perhaps there is some fire behind the recent media smoke.

It’s hard to fully buy into anything teams let get out in the weeks leading up to the draft, and the Cowboys have bigger immediate needs they will be in good position to address with their top-five pick (defense on all three levels, running back, No. 2 wide receiver). I still think it’s better to add an immediate contributor with the No. 4 pick if at all possible, with a limited window to win while Romo is still functional. But anything is possible with the Cowboys, and the draft’s first day surely won’t be an exception.