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Agree with what you say in the rest of your post, but you're underestimating Jerry Jones. Only thing keeping Zeke from being a 3-down back all season is his own health. Jerry's got a shiny new toy, and he's going to make sure Garrett puts him on full display given Zeke's price tag in the draft. Alf can't catch passes, which pretty much eliminates him from 3rd down conversation, so at worst Zeke will split 3rd down touches with DMC.

So that's a 3 back split now. Zeke and Alf split to early down work. Dmc and Zeke splitting 3rd down worm. Remember rooks always have hard time with blocking assignments on 3rd down and 2 min drills. And Jerry got fragile Romo there. Expect lots of Dmc still.

Why draft a guy in 1st round that has any type of question on amt of carries? Especially Zeke I can see his hammy being a problem all yr. 4th qtr blowout, Alf gettin touched to keep Zeke fresh for rest of season. Jerry doesn't wanna injury his new star or burn em out early.

Unless it's a dynasty league or keeper league. Stay away from Zeke.
 

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So that's a 3 back split now. Zeke and Alf split to early down work. Dmc and Zeke splitting 3rd down worm. Remember rooks always have hard time with blocking assignments on 3rd down and 2 min drills. And Jerry got fragile Romo there. Expect lots of Dmc still.

Why draft a guy in 1st round that has any type of question on amt of carries? Especially Zeke I can see his hammy being a problem all yr. 4th qtr blowout, Alf gettin touched to keep Zeke fresh for rest of season. Jerry doesn't wanna injury his new star or burn em out early.

Unless it's a dynasty league or keeper league. Stay away from Zeke.


Zeke is well known to be a great blocking back:manny:

Also, from having Dallas RB's the last two seasons, they really aren't big on splitting carries, the main back is going to get his touches every game until they break down and then they throw the next guy into the fire:yeshrug:
 

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So that's a 3 back split now. Zeke and Alf split to early down work. Dmc and Zeke splitting 3rd down worm. Remember rooks always have hard time with blocking assignments on 3rd down and 2 min drills. And Jerry got fragile Romo there. Expect lots of Dmc still.

Why draft a guy in 1st round that has any type of question on amt of carries? Especially Zeke I can see his hammy being a problem all yr. 4th qtr blowout, Alf gettin touched to keep Zeke fresh for rest of season. Jerry doesn't wanna injury his new star or burn em out early.

Unless it's a dynasty league or keeper league. Stay away from Zeke.

Think of how much Dallas will run though (especially given the need to keep Romo healthy). Even if Alf and DMC steal a combined 10-15 touches from Zeke, he'll probably have (at minimum) 20 touches a game. Behind that o-line, 100 combined yards and a TD a game should be the floor for Zeke on a weekly basis. The hamstring would be the only thing that would concern me, not the work.

Zeke is well known to be a great blocking back:manny:

Also, from having Dallas RB's the last two seasons, they really aren't big on splitting carries, the main back is going to get his touches every game until they break down and then they throw the next guy into the fire:yeshrug:

This. When DeMarco went off in 2014, Joseph Randle and Lance Dunbar were getting touches. With the volume of runs in Dallas, the split didn't matter.
 
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Think of how much Dallas will run though (especially given the need to keep Romo healthy). Even if Alf and DMC steal a combined 10-15 touches from Zeke, he'll probably have (at minimum) 20 touches a game. Behind that o-line, 100 combined yards and a TD a game should be the floor for Zeke on a weekly basis. The hamstring would be the only thing that would concern me, not the work.



This. When DeMarco went off in 2014, Joseph Randle and Lance Dunbar were getting touches. With the volume of runs in Dallas, the split didn't matter.

The logic you guys are using is that Dallas is such a great tm and rushing team that no matter who is their number back they shld be rated high.

Dmc had the job last yr, he wasn't a 1st rnd pick still. The reason why previous Dallas back got ample touches is cous they wasn't backup rbs the quality of Dmc and Alf.

I'm jus saying if your picking anybody, any position in 1st round u shld have 100% zero doubt and 100% well documented confirmation that he's gonna be a stud.

With zeke, it's all jus assumptions. This is Dallas u never k of how messed up dis squad will be.
 
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The logic you guys are using is that Dallas is such a great tm and rushing team that no matter who is their number back they shld be rated high.

Dmc had the job last yr, he wasn't a 1st rnd pick still. The reason why previous Dallas back got ample touches is cous they wasn't backup rbs the quality of Dmc and Alf.

I'm jus saying if your picking anybody, any position in 1st round u shld have 100% zero doubt and 100% well documented confirmation that he's gonna be a stud.

With zeke, it's all jus assumptions. This is Dallas u never k of how messed up dis squad will be.





hopkins or doug johnson i got 7th pick ?

or go up and get dez


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What about Doug Johnson?

U mean David Johnson on Arizona. I had em last yr off waivers. Im avoiding drafting for em though. As Chris Johnson and Andre Ellington are healthy. They gonna pace Johnson to be fresh end of yr.

1st round u want greedy hogs, who's gettin all da targets.
 
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