Tony Pollard is 65 rushing yards away from his second straight 1,000-yard season. Another eight yards on top of that, and he’ll have a new career high. Both numbers are very much attainable in the team’s regular-season finale versus Washington, where the starters will be playing for a win so as to clinch the No. 2 seed and at least one home date in the playoffs.
But to hear much of Cowboys Nation tell it, the 26-year-old Pollard is as washed as an old pair of dad jeans. It’s why there’s been so much speculation about whether the front office should try to land Dalvin Cook after his surprise release from the Jets. Current Dallas backup Rico Dowdle has been serviceable when healthy, but the team hasn’t gotten much from fullback Hunter Luepke and even less from draft-weekend darling Deuce Vaughn and practice squad fixture Malik Davis.
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