{"id":240045,"date":"2026-04-08T07:43:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/240045\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T07:43:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:43:35","slug":"is-dallas-set-at-running-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/240045\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Dallas set at running back?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy: For the most part, yes I think so. Obviously, Javonte Williams is a guy that the Cowboys trust, and that&#8217;s reflected in the three-year extension he signed. Malik Davis showed down the stretch last year he can serve as the RB2, but can that consistency carry on across a full season? This offseason, the Cowboys have voiced their belief in Jaydon Blue, but he&#8217;ll need to show a lot of growth in order to gain the trust necessary for an RB2 role. Phil Mafah is the wildcard because of what he looks like after his injury, but is a larger, stockier back that can help in short yardage situations. I think Dallas believes they have options and a good room to work with while Williams serves as the central component.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tommy: For the most part, yes I think so. Obviously, Javonte Williams is a guy that the Cowboys&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,1090,3486,6349,3592],"class_list":{"0":"post-240045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news","11":"tag-news-all-news","12":"tag-news-mailbag","13":"tag-news-patrik-walker","14":"tag-news-tommy-yarrish"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}