{"id":41495,"date":"2025-03-15T12:26:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T12:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=41495"},"modified":"2025-03-15T12:26:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T12:26:30","slug":"cowboys-sign-former-pro-bowl-running-back-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=41495","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys Sign Former Pro Bowl Running Back Overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\">The Dallas Cowboys don&#8217;t exactly feel &#8220;all-in&#8221; this offseason, but at least Jerry Jones has a better plan than a washed-up Ezekiel Elliott to fix the backfield after Rico Dowdle departed in free agency.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\">First was the signing of Javonte Williams \u2014 a high-upside flier on a guy who looked like a future star before injuries slowed him down \u2014 and now the Cowboys have inked another low-cost but high-upside rusher while fans were sleeping on Thursday night\/Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\">And this one was a Pro Bowler with the Philadelphia Eagles just three seasons ago.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sources: Miles Sanders plans to sign with the #Cowboys on a one-year deal. pic.twitter.com\/Jx9jDzKyoP<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeremy Fowler (@JFowlerESPN) March 14, 2025<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"inline-text-4\">News of Cowboys Signing Miles Sanders Breaks Overnight<\/h2>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\">ESPN&#8217;s Jeremy Fowler reported late Thursday night that the Cowboys and former Carolina Panthers running back Miles Sanders have agreed to a one-year contract. In doing so he swaps places with Dowdle, who signed on with the Panthers earlier in the day on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\">The Sanders signing may not exactly feel like a huge splash, but even an ardent Jerry Jones doubter shouldn&#8217;t hate this one.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\">A Pro Bowler as recently as 2022, Sanders has certainly shown upside through his career. He rushed for 1,269 yards and 11 touchdowns as the Eagles&#8217; RB1 that year, and in the 2023 offseason was a hot-ticket free agent. His numbers fell off steeply in Carolina, but the 2023 season was an especially ugly one from the entire Panthers organization.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\">And while he was buried behind Chuba Hubbard in 2024, we saw a real bounce-back from Sanders. PFF gave him a rushing grade of 76.1 last season \u2014 the second-highest mark of his career. That also slightly beat out Dowdle&#8217;s 74.4.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\">Sanders is only 28 years old, so it also reasons that he&#8217;s not out of his prime just yet.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\">Signing him to a long-term deal wouldn&#8217;t make much sense, but a one-year &#8220;prove it&#8221; kind of deal while forming a backfield stable with Williams is easy to like. Sanders has the upside to reemerge as a true RB1, and even if he doesn&#8217;t he should at least be a capable run-first piece in a backfield stable.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-11\">Plus, this signing means Jerry has less room to decide to re-sign Zeke.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"inline-text-12\">More Dallas Cowboys News and Rumors:<\/h3>\n<figure><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Cowboys don&#8217;t exactly feel &#8220;all-in&#8221; this offseason, but at least Jerry Jones has a better plan than a washed up Ezekiel Elliott to fix the backfield<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":41496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cowboys Sign Former Pro Bowl Running Back Overnight - 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