‘The coaches know’ – Cowboys rookie everyone has been waiting to watch play shows his confidence ahead of preseason finale
Before he suffered a heel injury that knocked him out of practice for multiple weeks, Dallas Cowboys running back Jaydon Blue was on the rise. He’ll finally get to show his play to fans in Friday’s preseason finale versus the Atlanta Falcons.The fifth-round rookie was turning heads at practice thanks to the speed and explosiveness […]
Before he suffered a heel injury that knocked him out of practice for multiple weeks, Dallas Cowboys running back Jaydon Blue was on the rise. He’ll finally get to show his play to fans in Friday’s preseason finale versus the Atlanta Falcons.
The fifth-round rookie was turning heads at practice thanks to the speed and explosiveness that made him so productive with the Texas Longhorns in college. Despite being a late-round pick, his big play ability is something the rest of the Cowboys’ running back room lacks. That is expected to translate into a significant role on offense even as a rookie.
Now it’s time to overcome the speedbump that was missing the first two preseason games. And Blue is not sweating it because to him, his work so far speaks for itself.
“Absolutely,” Blue told reporters when asked if he felt he had a one-game opportunity to prove it all. “But I also think I was having a great camp before I went down. So I know a lot of these guys and the coaches know what I can do on the football field.”
Brian Schottenheimer and other members of the Cowboys coaching staff have admitted it took Blue a little bit longer to digest the scheme and the position at the NFL level but since then, the team has been impressed with the former Longhorn.
For Blue, being forced off the field was an opportunity to take a step back and look at the game from the sidelines while enjoying watching his teammates play.
“It was hard of course,” Blue added. “Everything happens for a reason, every time I get hurt I come back better. [. . .] Sometimes watching, you see things that you may not seen when you’re playing. I think there’s positives and negatives. It was a really good chance for me to sit back and really watch the older guys and even the younger guys do some things.”
Blue knows he’ll feel butterflies in his stomach when he takes the field on Friday night but so will Cowboys Nation. Blue was labeled as one of the top players to watch this preseason and now the wait is finally over. If the fifth-rounder is going to blossom as a big factor in Year 1 of his career, the preseason finale should provide some exciting flashes of his talent.
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