Kevin Sweeney
Kevin Sweeney was selected in the seventh round (180th overall) of the 1987 NFL Draft, After the players went on a strike on the third week of the 1987 season, those games were canceled (reducing the 16 game season to 15) and the NFL decided that the games would be played with replacement players. Sweeney was signed to be a part of the Dallas Cowboys replacement team, that was given the mock name “Rhinestone Cowboys” by the media. He became the third rookie quarterback to start for the Cowboys, following Don Meredith (1960) and Roger Staubach (1969). When Danny White took over the team for the third replacement game against the Washington Redskins, the crowd started chanting “We Want Sweeney, We Want Sweeney” when the team didn’t perform well in the eventual 13-7 loss. He was kept on the roster for the rest of the year. In 1989, with the arrival of new head coach Jimmy Johnson and the team also intending to draft a quarterback, he was left unprotected in Plan B free agency.