2018 Leighton Vander Esch LB 2020 CeeDee Lamb WR 2021 Micah Parsons LB 2022 Tyler Smith OL Injuries prematurely ended Vander Esch’s career, but those were four solid first-round selections.

recently retired Cowboys linebacker Leighton Vander Esch, and former running back Tarik Cohen. Finding players who haven't taken the traditional journeys is hardly a new phenomenon in a world that ...

Only Leighton Vander Esch, taken at 19 in 2018, was questionable, and even then only because they knew he had a neck problem, one that would ultimately shorten a promising career. Otherwise ...