Jaydon Blue to be Cowboys' RB1 by the End of 2025, per The Athletic's Saad Yousef

Dallas enters the new season with more quantity than quality once again in their backfield, with the trio of Javonte Williams, Miles Sanders, and the aforementioned rookie Jaydon Blue expected to pick up the slack on the ground in 2025. Williams and Sanders are both uninspiring adds and profile as nothing more than reclamation projects with RB3 potential, but will likely shoulder the load early as Dallas looks to ramp up Blue as the season progresses. It’s a situation reminiscent of what Dallas deployed last season between a washed up veteran Ezekiel Elliott and a spry Rico Dowdle, with the latter taking control of the backfield down the stretch in 2024 and providing comfortable RB2 value in the back half of the year. It’s a classic ambiguous backfield, and one that should be targeted in all formats because of the liquidity that exists. Blue is easily the most talented and most efficient of the backs in the Cowboys’ backfield, and offers the most in the way of receiving upside, as well, so he should be the clear target of the trio as a potential RB3/flex on day one. If he could take command of the carries in the backfield (even just 50% of the work on the ground), he’d be a viable fantasy RB2 with upside in what’s likely to be a run-first offensive scheme under new head coach Brian Schottenheimer.