The Dallas Cowboys want a operating again, and they need to be in a first-rate place to doubtlessly choose the perfect operating again — Boise State’s Ashton Jeanty — within the 2025 NFL Draft if they’d resolve to go in that path.
The excellent news for the Cowboys? Jeanty would completely welcome that chance, and mentioned this week it will be “particular” to play for his hometown workforce.
“It will be particular,” mentioned Jeanty this week. “Clearly, rising up in Frisco and spending a number of time on the market. I believe it’d be cool having a star on my helmet once more. Enjoying for Lone Star [High School], I had a star on my helmet as nicely. It will be a dope second to have that occur.”
The largest query is whether or not or not the Cowboys would wish to use a first-round decide (No. 12 general) on a operating again.
The place has been tremendously devalued over the previous decade, to the purpose the place operating backs have hardly ever been chosen within the first spherical or given big-money offers. However the success of Saquon Barkley with the Philadelphia Eagles and Derrick Henry with the Baltimore Ravens would possibly make groups extra prepared to take a swing on an impression again.
The issue with that’s gamers like Barkley and Henry have been the ultimate piece of the puzzle for these groups and never the first focal factors. They have been already good groups that simply wanted yet another piece to place them excessive.
The Cowboys may not fairly be able the place they’re merely one operating again away.
However that has additionally by no means stopped Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones from making that kind of bold-splash transfer within the draft, and Jeanty might undoubtedly be the kind of participant he would like to have.
Jeanty has led the NCAA in speeding in every of the previous two seasons, speeding for two,601 yards this previous season for Boise State. He narrowly missed out on Barry Sanders’ all-time single-season document.
