Where will Rico Dowdle land in Cowboys' single-season rushing history?
Sitting at 880 yards with three games to go, Cowboys running back Rico Dowdle seems destined to break the 1,000-yard barrier this season. Offensive lineman Brock Hoffman all but guaranteed it would happen Sunday night against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but even if Dowdle’s 1K chase extends beyond Week 16, the plateau appears well within his reach.
It’s taken the undrafted free agent most of the season to get fully cranked up, thanks primarily to it having taken the Cowboys coaching staff most of the season to feed him like a true workhorse back. But now that he’s hitting his stride and closing in on the traditional milestone for ballcarriers in the NFL, where could Dowdle’s breakout season fall among the franchise’s single-season rushers?
A Cowboys ballcarrier has finished the season with 1,000 yards or more precisely 32 times, so Dowdle will already put himself in decent company if he gets there. But could the next three weeks conceivably catapult him into elite status alongside some of the game’s greatest? Let’s take a look at the possibilities.
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