Leighton Vander Esch no more motivated than usual going into contract season

The Cowboys declined to exercise the fifth-year option on linebacker Leighton Vander Esch‘s contract, and they drafted linebacker Micah Parsons in the first round and linebacker Jabril Cox in the fourth round. It is not necessarily as it seems, though. The Cowboys still believe in Vander Esch, but he has missed 13 games over the [more]