After being cut by the Redskins as an undrafted rookie and spending some time in the USFL, Nate Newton landed with the Cowboys. He didn't make a single start in his first season, but he went on to make six Pro Bowls and win three Super Bowl titles.
In the frigid 1967 NFL Championship Game against the Green Bay Packers, often referred to as the "Ice Bowl", George Andrie picked up a Bart Starr fumble and ran it in for a touchdown, scoring six of the Cowboys' 17 points in the loss.
Future NFL linebacker Dat Nguyen was born in a refugee center at Fort Chaffee in Fort Smith, Arkansas. He led the Cowboys in tackles three times, in 2001, 2003, and 2004, and amassed 516 tackles in seven seasons, despite missing half of two separate seasons to injury.
Morris Claiborne scored a 4 out of 50 on the aptitude test given to NFL prospects to test basic intelligence. After being selected sixth overall by the Cowboys in the 2012 NFL Draft, Claiborne admitted he "blew the test off" after seeing that it had "nothing on the test that came with football".
In 1980, Jay Novacek set the South Dakota high school state record in the pole vault at 15 ft 1 in (4.60 m) and also won the state title in hurdles.
Herschel Walker began his professional football career with the New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League (USFL), before joining the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL).
Replacing Phil Costa, who had been the starter in the previous two seasons, Travis Frederick became the first rookie in franchise history to start every game at center and was selected to the NFL All-Rookie team.
On January 2, 2014 Zack Martin was voted to the AP 2014 All-Pro Team. He was the only rookie to make the team, and was also the first rookie offensive lineman to be named first-team AP All-Pro since Dick Huffman in 1947.
La'el Collins' draft stock started to drop when it was announced that he was scheduled to talk to the Louisiana State police about the shooting death of a pregnant woman with whom he previously had a relationship. He eventually went undrafted after his agents threatened to have him sit out the season and enter the 2016 NFL Draft, if any NFL team selected him after the third round.
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