The Dallas Cowboys already have a lot of running backs to choose from.
What’s one more?
It’s shaping up to be a four-headed summer competition between veterans Javonte Williams and Miles Sanders and rookies Jaydon Blue and Phil Mafah.
Cowboys Wire suggests Dallas should look to make a trade for another RB: Antonio Gibson, the long-time Washington rusher who is now with the Patriots.
“Gibson, at 6-foot and 228 pounds, looks the part of an NFL RB,” Reid Hanson wrote for Cowboys Wire. “He’s a well-built gamebreaker with a thousand-yard season on his resume and breakaway speed in his arsenal. Gibson is a solid pass catcher with elusiveness in the open field. At face value, he looks a little redundant to Blue’s profile, but with the rookie Blue unproven in the NFL, redundancy might not be a bad thing. Gibson isn’t the between-the-tackles grinder Williams is, but he’s a playmaker who can share the load. He would add to the options and largely serve as an upgrade to any other cocktail head coach Brian Schottenheimer could mix together at this point in the summer.”
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If the Cowboys traded for Gibson, it’d likely necessitate a cut, unless they could sneak Mafah onto the practice squad.
It would also have the potential for a bit of veteran discontent, because all of a sudden one of Sanders or Williams might have a very tough path to playing time.
But the reality is that Dallas needs to put its best running back foot forward to pair with a Dak Prescott passing offense that now features CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens. If the Cowboys hurt a few feelings along the way, so be it. The most important thing is landing on the best RB possible.
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