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ARLINGTON, Texas — In the Dallas Cowboys‘ postgame locker room, Ezekiel Elliott cradled an imaginary trophy midair. The seventh-year pro’s message: He worries not who carries the football each Sunday. He wants to carry something bigger and better. “All I’m worried about is winning, and at the end of the season. I want to be holding up that Lombardi,” Elliott told Yahoo Sports while hoisting his imaginary trophy. “We’ve all got the same goal and that’s for this team to be… Source link

Editor’s note: The players listed below are NFL stars who were drafted in virtually every Yahoo Fantasy league. That said, this column is not an endorsement to bench them in Week 1. You’re in control of your roster; every league size and shape is different. What we are trying to explain is that expectations should be lowered this week compared to usual for some of the NFL’s biggest stars. Aside from examining this week’s matchups, this can also serve as a reminder not to overreact if… Source link

Another day, another training camp practice for the entire league. Some of the biggest questions were answered this week, especially for Seattle Seahawks wideout D.K. Metcalf, who signed a three-year, $72 million deal Thursday. There are few major deals left on the table, though, including San Francisco 49ers receiver Deebo Samuel, Cincinnati Bengals safety Jessie Bates and Los Angeles Chargers safety Derwin James. Another safety, Bills’ Micah Hyde, avoided major injury this week after… Source link

Jerry Jones is still all in on Ezekiel Elliott. While the Cowboys running back is , and Dallas has Tony Pollard at the ready if needed, Jones said Saturday that he wants Elliott to be the “focus” of the team’s run game both in Week 1 and throughout the season. “Zeke’s gotta be our feature, and he is our feature,” the Cowboys owner said, . “We can feature him in a lot of different ways … It’s critical that we make Zeke, because he’s capable of being that, really the focus of… Source link

OXNARD, Calif. — Ever since the Dallas Cowboys signed Ezekiel Elliott to one of the worst running back contracts in recent history, it has felt as if a clock was ticking on his departure. It also established a bit of training camp echo Wednesday, featuring a familiar storyline from a year ago. Something along the lines of: What can this team expect to get out of Ezekiel Elliott this season, and how much longer can it wait for him to live up to his elite salary? The answer last season was… Source link

The Guardian After 20 years of insults, Kwame Brown proved revenge is best served flaming hot The former No 1 overall pick in the NBA draft has been ridiculed for years as a bust. This week, in hours of YouTube rants, he set the record straight Kwame Brown talks to Kobe Bryant during his time with the Lakers in 2006. Photograph: Andrew D Bernstein/NBAE/Getty Images Before the NFL’s JaMarcus Russell there was the NBA’s Kwame Brown. Like the former Raiders quarterback, Brown was a top draft… Source link

Nearly 16 months ago, when Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones stepped in front of the CNBC cameras after committing to the richest running back contract in NFL history, he sounded like a man who was selling himself — maybe more than anyone else — on the lavish $90 million deal he was about to sign with Ezekiel Elliott. Jones talked about how Elliott had “worked” and “utilized his skills” to seize his market. He waxed about Elliott’s “big heart” and spun thin logic about how… Source link

We’ve made it through roughly half of the NFL reason season. Keep grinding, gamers. Here’s your injury and status report. • According to our old friend Michael Gehlken, the Cowboys are preparing not to have Ezekiel Elliott (hamstring) against Pittsburgh. This would set up Tony Pollard to be the featured back, though Pollard could struggle behind Dallas’s patchwork offensive line. We might have to wait until Sunday morning for clarity on Elliott. The Cowboys take their bye in Week 10.