The Dallas Cowboys selected Leighton Vander Esch as their number one pick in the 2018 draft. As we head into the first game of the season on September 9th, hardly anyone is talking about him. Charean Williams noted this phenomenon in a recent article at Pro Football Talk.
There are a couple of reasons Vander Esch has fallen off the radar, injury and the play of the other Cowboys linebackers.
Since the Cowboys drafted Vander Esch, he’s spent a lot of time injured. An ankle injury kept him out of minicamp, and his groin issue has kept him out of the last several weeks of training camp and preseason games.