The Dallas Cowboys starting secondary heading into the 2016 regular season included cornerbacks Brandon Carr, Morris Claiborne, and Orlando Scandrick. Barry Church and Byron Jones lined up at safety. Flash forward three years and only Jones remains on the roster.
The cornerback revolution in Dallas actually began in 2017, with the exodus of longtime veterans like Carr and Claiborne. In their place, the Cowboys drafted cornerbacks Chidobe Awuzie and Jourdan Lewis in the second and third rounds respectively. Combined with the surprising play of 2016 sixth-rounder, cornerback Anthony Brown, Dallas had revamped the positional group in one fell swoop.