The Dallas Cowboys went 12-5 in 2021, winning the NFC East title. It didn’t end up as a fairytale season, but that shouldn’t diminish the accomplishment from a team that was coming off a disaster during the 2020 campaign.
If last year taught anything about the Cowboys, it’s that they have a good team, but need their best guys on the roster to be healthy and play their best football if the team is going to make a deep playoff run. Despite their failures in the playoff loss, the Cowboys did a lot right throughout the season. There were plenty of individual accomplishments that led to the team’s win total and helped the Cowboys capture the divisional crown for the first time since 2018.
Football is a team sport, but individuals can drive the success of a team and the Cowboys have some of the best players in the game.
Not to be confused with the best players on the roster, here are the five most indispensable Cowboys. If anything should happen to any of these players, Dallas would find games more difficult to win.