5th 2018 Mike White
4th 2016 Dak Prescott
4th 2009 Stephen McGee
UDFA 2007 Matt Moore
UDFA 2003 Tony Romo
2nd 2001 Quincy Carter
That's what we've *spent* on QB under Jerry post Aikman.
Pretty much nothing.
But that nothing yielded two franchise QBs who made pro bowls and a 12 year career backup. Massive returns on little investment.
The lesson is not that it's hard, but that it's easy. Just invest more often to give us more chances to hit on someone. Developing QBs should be a high priority, and we should spend an extra roster spot to do it.
Churn young guys and try to hit on them. Keep bringing new ones in and have a competition to see who stays. Keep guys on the PS. Maybe this time avoid the personality rejects and the baseball players.
We only spent one real pick under Dak trying to find the next Dak. Just dumb.
Looking at the league's recent history, I'd be churning running QBs *and running them* to get the extra value out of them while they're cheap instead of trying to preserve their health so we can mortgage the team to sign them as they near free agency.
As far as QBs that we brought in from college, yes. However, let's not forget all the other QBs that we had in the span I talked about. All of whom actually played. Romo and Dak of the ones that we've talked about since Aikman are the only 2 QBs we got that are genuine franchise QBs. I'd love for us to develop more QBs. I truly do. However, as of now, we are just about out of time if not completely out of time to draft a QB high if we want to start fixing this defence. We have a solid offence atm. What we need is at least an average defence to compliment that. Here, let me take you through all the defencive picks that we've had since 2009 when we moved into AT&T Stadium. THIS is why we struggle:
(2009) Jason Williams of Western Illinois, Victor Butler was an Oregon State Beaver, Brandon Williams was a Red Raider, there's Deangelo Smith from Cincinnati Ohio, Michael Hamlin was a safety from Clemson, then there's Stephen Hodge was a Horned Frog, and Mike Mickens of Cincinnati. (2010) Sean Lee was Penn State who's been a joy, Akwasi Owusu-Ansah was a safety from Indiana PA, Jamar Wall was a CB from Texas Tech, and Sean Lissemore was a DE from William & Penn. (2011) Bruce Carter was a LB from North Carolina, then we go north to Josh Thomas (CB) from Buffalo, (2012) Morris Claiborne was from Lousiana State, Tyron Crawford was from Boise Idaho by way of Canada, you got Kyle Wilber was a LB from Wake Forest, Matt Johnson was from Eastern Washington but never played, and Caleb McSurdy from Montana. (2013) JJ Wilcox was from Georgia Southern, south of BW Webb from William and Mary, and DeVonte Holloman LB from Carolina. (2014) Tank Lawrence came from Boise State Idaho, Anthony Hitchens was from Iowa, Ben Gardner DE was from Stanford, Will Smith LB was east from Texas Tech, Ahmad Dixon S was just a quick jaunt from Baylor, Ken Bishop DT was from Northern Illinois, and Terrance Mitchell CB was from Oregon. *fiddles more* Byron Jones was from Connecticut, Randy Gregory was from Nebraska, Damien Wilson came north from Minnesota, Ryan Russell DE was from Purdue, and Mark Nzeocha came from Wyoming by way of Germany. (2016) Jaylon Smith is a LB from Notre Dame, Maliek Collins was a DT from Nebraska, Charles Tapper was a DE from Oklahoma, Anthony Brown's a CB from Purdue, and Kavon Frazier was from Central Michigan. (2017) Taco Charlton's a DE from Michigan, Chidobe Awuzie from Colorado, Jourdan Smith came from Michigan, Xavier Woods was a S from Louisiana Tech, Marquez White was a CB from Florida State, Joey Ivie was a DT from Florida, and Jordan Carrell (DE) came from Colorado. (2018) LVE the Wolf came from Boise State, Dorance Armstrong came from Kansas, Chris Covington came from Indiana, (2019) Trystan Hill came from Central Florida, north of Michael Jackson in Miami, with Joe Jackson from Miami, Donovan Wilson came from Texas A&M, and Jalen Jelks from Oregon. (2020) Trevon Diggs came from Alabama, Neville Gallimore came from Oklahoma by way of Canada, Reggie Robinson from Tulsa, and Bradlee Anae. *pants and falls*
Point of that, not many high draft picks on D, and very few were successful here compared to what we drafted. If we drafted better, we probably don't have the issue we have now.