Mailbag: Who Starts In The Secondary? Problems With Trading Down?

NASHVILLE, TN

I know the league has become more of a passing league and defenses are spent a lot of time in nickel defense, but if Scandrick comes back healthy, and with us re-signing Claiborne and Carr still under contract, who would our starters be in the base defense?

David: For the purposes of this question, I’m going to assume the Cowboys don’t draft a high-profile defensive back like Jalen Ramsey or William Jackson III. If we’re just using the personnel on hand, I think you’d see Carr and Scandrick as the “starting,” corners. But I fully expect that Scandrick would spend a lot of his time shifting inside to the slot, allowing Claiborne to play outside. Barry Church and Byron Jones are…