For the ’21 Cowboys to go further than last year, the ground attack has to improve. Running back Tony Pollard, the backup to two-time rushing champ Ezekiel Elliott, says simply getting the team together for OTAs- something they couldn’t do last summer- is a step in the right direction.
“It’s big,” Pollard told media members during minicamp. “There’s nothing [you can do] to simulate playing football other than playing football. There’s nothing that can simulate being out there with the guys you’re going to go to war with on Sunday and just getting that timing down, that chemistry down.”
Much of that chemistry boils down to a balancing act between Pollard and Elliott. Elliott is the well-paid workhorse, but 2020 saw him turn in the poorest numbers of his career. There are a variety of well-documented reasons, but the results on the field were unmistakable, ultimately leading to Pollard getting increasingly more action.
In 2019, Elliott played on 83.59% of the offense’s snaps, according to Pro Football Reference. Pollard, conversely, was on the field for just 17.75%. Over the course of 2020, though, those numbers changed significantly: Pollard’s snap count surged to 31.65%; Elliott’s dropped to 68.79%.
The team has praised Pollard’s electrifying playmaking abilities ever since drafting him out of Memphis and is reportedly (still) looking for new ways to get him involved in the Cowboys’ offense. The versatile six-footer even saw reps at wide receiver during minicamp, but that may have been more a product of personnel availability than a sneak peeks of some wild new play package.
Pollard and Elliott comprise what Pro Football Focus calls the second-best rushing duo in the NFL. Both will both have to be major contributors in whatever role they’re assigned for the Cowboys to find success this season. And the third-year back echoes something Prescott himself said recently, that Elliott looks to be on track to return to his former self.
For the Cowboys rushing attack, that means putting themselves back in the upper echelon of the league’s ground games. And that will require both Elliott and Pollard to take what they’ve started, in their private workouts and OTAs, and step up their individual games and live up to their billing on Sundays this fall.
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