It’s become a running joke among Dallas Cowboys fans. Every offseason we look at scouting reports for college safeties that will be in the draft, we map out the possibilities of selecting one high in the draft... and then it never happens. Every offseason we scour the big-name safeties in free agency, we try to figure out how they can get in under the cap... then the Cowboys search the bargain bin.
That’s not to say the team hasn't had some success with this strategy of spending very little of their resources, either through the draft or in cap space, on a safety.