Playing his entire 14-year career with the Dallas Cowboys, Jethro Pugh was a late round pick from small Elizabeth City State College, and he would do that small North Carolina institution proud on football’s brightest stage.

Used as a Punt Returner as a rookie, Tony Hill played a small role in Dallas’ Super Bowl XII win, but he would later become the Cowboys’ go-to Wide Receiver.

In 2001, Roy Williams was considered the best Defensive Back in the college ranks.  Playing for Oklahoma, Williams helped them the Sooners win the National Championship the year before, and in '01, he was an All-American, who won the Bronko Nagurski Trophy, Jim Thorpe Award and Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year.  The Cowboys coveted him and would trade up to obtain him with the eighth overall pick in the '01 draft.  

You always hear about the brilliance of Dallas Cowboy scouting (see Brandt, Gil), and likely that is how Calvin Hill was drafted in the first round out of Yale in 1969.  The Ivy League wasn’t, and isn’t known for producing high-end offensive talent, but that is what the Cowboys got in Hill.