The Dallas Cowboys will be implementing their third defensive scheme since Mike McCarthy has been head coach, this year under new coordinator Mike Zimmer. The Cowboys are hopeful Zimmer can install his defense and get new personnel up to speed in time to keep that side of the ball as a strength, adding DE Marshawn Kneeland, LB Marist Liufau, CB Caelen Carson, and DT Justin Rogers in last week’s draft.
Kneeland and Rogers help the Cowboys replace defensive line starters that left in free agency like Dorance Armstrong, Dante Fowler, Neville Gallimore, and Johnathan Hankins, but this front four will also be about getting breakout seasons from second- and third-year players in a new scheme.