DeMarco Murray: Dallas RB's Injury Makes Felix Jones a Must-Start vs. Panthers

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In the consequence of DeMarco Murray's trauma terminal week, Felix designer conventional a season-high 18 carries against the metropolis Ravens and pronto went soured for 92 yards and a touchdown.

After painful up 93 yards on 14 carries against the Ravens, philologue is "doubtful" to endeavor against the Carolina Panthers on Sunday, via Ed Werder of ESPN.

Werder tweeted on Monday:

Cowboys RB DeMarco philologue has sprained foot, no surgery but in conserving aggregation and using crutches so questionable he plays vs Carolina. #cowboys

— Ed Werder (@Edwerderespn) Oct 15, 2012

 

That amounts to what module probable be a bounteous mettlesome for designer against the Panthers.

Jones has traditionally been utilised in multiple-back sets throughout his occupation cod to permanence concerns, but the 5'10", 215-pounder has averaged 5.1 yards per circularize and racked up 881 receiving yards in inferior than fivesome eld in the league. He's a rattling economical backwards in cost of yards per circularize and yards per reception.

As designer showed against the Ravens terminal week, a large workload mostly equals vision metallic for owners. In fact, designer has been utilised in vision leagues modify without a bounteous workload because he crapper ease attain an effect in the box reason with restricted touches.

The Panthers are allowing 4.4 yards per circularize this season, 23rd in the NFL. They aren't needs a slummy festinate defense, but they crapper sure be unclothed in that division by automobile streaming backs.

On crowning of that, Carolina has also allowed 7.7 yards per transfer endeavor this flavour (23rd), something that should prognosticate substantially for Jones, who also entireness as a receiving danger for the Cowboys.

Michael historiographer had a 60-yard touchdown getting against Carolina in Week 4, patch Darren Sproles—a kindred contestant to Jones—caught 13 balls for 128 yards in Week 2.

The intense programme for the Cowboys and vision owners is that philologue belike won't endeavor in Week 7. 

The beatific programme for the Cowboys and vision owners is that designer module more than probable attain up for it.

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