Letting safety Barry Church go in free agency following the 2016 season would have seemed like a genius move if the Dallas Cowboys hadn’t failed at every attempt to replace him. After signing a four-year, $26 million contract with the Jacksonville Jaguars, the former undrafted free agent failed to perform as well in 2017 and 2018 as he had in his previous four years in Dallas. The Jags released Church in December of 2018.
As a Cowboy, Church was a tackling machine, averaging 7.34 tackles per game from 2013 through 2016. Since then, Dallas safeties Kavon Frazier (1.