When the 2016 NFL Draft began there were a lot of Cowboys fans who wanted to see the team acquire an heir to Tony Romo. We’d just watched the team play a season without him and it was, well, not very good.
The newly-relocated Los Angeles Rams and Philadelphia Eagles traded for the draft’s top two picks and took the highest-rated signal-callers with them in Jared Goff and Carson Wentz which left the Cowboys looking at other positions at fourth overall. Ultimately it came down to Ezekiel Elliott and that’s worked out quite nicely.