Everyone acts like we took this huge gamble on Rico. He was a 6th round pick, the 217th pick overall. Very low success rates with 6th round picks.
I'm personally a fan of looking outside the normal avenues of talent identification to try to find a player, especially when there is minimal risk associated with it.
This franchise took an injured FCS safety in the 4th round and many here here applauded the move, despite him being injured his entire NFL "career" and never contributing a thing to the Cowboys. Many still defend the selection to this day. But taking an Uber-athletic 6'6" 280-pound Gathers was stupid?