1. Trade for another running back<\/p>\n
Javonte Williams finally had the career year he\u2019s been starving for since battling severe knee injuries. The Cowboys\u2019 starting running back earned himself a well-deserved contract extension and comes back to the team as the clear-cut No. 1 back this offseason. But who is the backup Dallas should trust behind him?<\/p>\n
Right now, the Cowboys\u2019 depth chart behind Williams is Malik Davis, Jaydon Blue, Phil Mafah, Israel Abanikanda, Dominic Richardson, and Hunter Luepke. Davis is the only back on the list to have at least 400 yards rushing in his career. Unless Brian Schottenheimer has full confidence in rolling with young backups this year, Dallas should go after a running back who has experience.<\/p>\n
Last season, the team brought in Miles Sanders, who was competing with Williams for the starting job. Schottenheimer wanted to have veteran voices in the room to pair with the young rookie backs at the time, Blue and Mafah. Sanders ended camp as the team\u2019s No. 2 back and had some decent moments before exiting the first month of the season on injured reserve.<\/p>\n
The free agent market is a barren wasteland right now at the running back position. Joe Mixon, Najee Harris, Austin Eckeler, and the ghost of Nick Cubb are the only names that Dallas could sign and say, \u201cThat makes sense.\u201d Outside of those options, Dallas could move a late-round draft pick next year for a back with experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1. Trade for another running back Javonte Williams finally had the career year he\u2019s been starving for since…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,932,104,103],"class_list":["post-284258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-cowboys-news","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284258","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=284258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}