{"id":11245,"date":"2024-10-12T08:29:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T08:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=11245"},"modified":"2024-10-12T08:29:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T08:29:20","slug":"jerry-jones-offers-delusional-reason-for-ezekiel-elliotts-diminished-snap-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=11245","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Jones offers delusional reason for Ezekiel Elliott’s diminished snap count.."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ezekiel Elliott hasn’t been getting many snaps in his return to the Dallas Cowboys and Jerry Jones offers an interesting reason for this.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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After allowing Tony Pollard to leave in free agency, the\u00a0Dallas Cowboys\u00a0went with the ultimate frugal approach to the running back position. They re-signed Rico Dowdle and brought back Ezekiel Elliott after he spent one year with the New England Patriots.<\/p>\n

They planned to use those two in a committee with Royce Freeman and Deuce Vaughn. Freeman was cut before the regular season, and they added\u00a0Dalvin Cook to the practice squad. Still, the committee approach seemed to be the plan as Elliott took 51 percent of the snaps in Week 1 and Dowdle had 44 percent.<\/p>\n

Since then, Dowdle has remained close to that number of snaps, but his touches have increased. Elliott, on the other hand, has seen his usage dip \u2014\u00a0with six rushing attempts being the most he’s had since the opener.<\/p>\n

This is understandable since Elliott is averaging just 3.27 yards per attempt compared to the 4.09 for Dowdle. It makes even more sense considering\u00a0Dowdle has improved\u00a0with 133 yards on 31 carries over the past two weeks. However, Jerry Jones says there’s another reason. He believes the Cowboys should be “saving” Elliott.<\/p>\n

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