NFL REPORT TODAY IMPACT: Ronald Jones suspension opens door for young Cowboys RBs…
OXNARD, Calif. — Ronald Jones had a strong day within the to begin with cushioned hone for the Dallas Cowpokes, but he at that point gotten a few news from the NFL front office that put a stop to any great mojo radiating from RoJo on Monday.
Jones has been suspended by the association for the primary two recreations of the 2023 normal season for infringement of the NFL’s arrangement on performance-enhancing substances.
He can still take an interest in hones, group gatherings and each of the three preseason recreations, but this discipline does make numerous more address marks when it comes to assessing the running back room in Dallas. As Tony Pollard strolls into a year wherein he’ll play beneath the franchise tag, the profundity chart behind him is additionally anything but settled.
The return of Rico Dowdle, both from damage that wrecked his 2022 season and on another one-year bargain, has drawn early commend from head coach (and hostile play-caller) Mike McCarthy, who made it a point as it were hours some time recently news broke with respect to Jones.
McCarthy too pointed at the improvement of Malik Davis, a second-year ability who appeared flashes when actuated as a rookie in 2022, with Dowdle and Davis having already been bolted in a warmed camp fight earlier to this year’s stretch in Oxnard.
They’ve picked up right where they cleared out off.
The expansion of both Deuce Vaughn and Seeker Luepke to the blend this past April as it were includes that much more start to the powder barrel at the position, and it all applies weight to Jones to lead the pack behind Pollard as more of the control back arrangement within the wake of discharging Ezekiel Elliott this offseason.
Vaughn looks extraordinary in this way distant in hone, by the way.
Jones is off to a strong begin on the field, but it remains to be seen how the Ranchers will approach the circumstance going forward — knowing they’ll ought to completely assess those who will be permitted by the alliance to require the field in Week 1 against the Unused York Monsters and in Week 2 against Aaron Rodgers and the Unused York Jets.
At best, they’ll adhere to their current arrange and see in the event that Jones can make a title for himself on the program that will permit the group to miss the two-game suspension on the two-time Super Bowl champ.
At most noticeably awful, he’s confronting a program choice that would as it were taken a toll the group $302,500 in dead cash (per OverTheCap.com) in the event that the Cattle rustlers selected to move on from his one-year deal.
That sum is little sufficient that they may sit tight and let it all play out, but no matter how you cut it, it right away gives the youthful running backs within the room a few use they didn’t have earlier to Monday.
