Maurice Canady didn’t play a down of football last season. The former Virginia Cavalier, who logged temporary stints with the Ravens and Jets before inking a deal with Dallas in 2020, was one of several athletes to opt out of the annual gridiron grind amidst the height of COVID-19.
Canady, who’s registered just one career interception in 32 career games, didn’t necessarily shake the franchise’s foundations with his departure. The team brought him in with rudimentary expectations: fill out the corner’s role with experience and tenacious play, and while Dallas certainly could’ve used extra patronage to support its backline, Canady’s presence wouldn’t have halfway sufficed as a solution for the multitude of problems the unit faced.