Todd Archer, ESPN Group of workers Editor
OXNARD, Calif. — Dallas Cowboys operating again Ronald Jones has been suspended for the primary two video games of the ordinary season for violating the NFL’s performance-enhancing drug coverage.
Jones, who signed a one-year word of honour with the Cowboys in March, can proceed to apply all through coaching camp and play games in preseason video games. His suspense takes impact on Sept. 3, and he’s eligible to go back to the Cowboys on Sept. 18, a pace next their Hour 2 assembly towards the New York Jets.
Jones had simply 17 carries in six video games ultimate 12 months with the Kansas City Chiefs, completing with 70 yards and a landing. His perfect season got here in 2020, when he had 978 yards on 192 carries and 7 touchdowns in serving to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers win the Tremendous Bowl.
The Cowboys are slim on enjoy in the back of forming operating again Tony Pollard, who’s getting back from high-ankle surgical treatment in January. Rico Dowdle, Malik Davis and Deuce Vaughn, a sixth-round pick out on this 12 months’s draft, are competing for the spots in the back of Pollard with Jones.
Dowdle performed in 5 video games ultimate 12 months earlier than an ankle trauma ended his season. He has simply seven carries for twenty-four yards in his profession. Davis made the Cowboys ultimate 12 months as an undrafted detached agent. He had 161 yards on 38 carries and a landing ultimate 12 months to move in conjunction with six catches for 63 yards.
“I tell you, I’m loving Rico,” mentor Mike McCarthy stated earlier than the announcement of Jones’ suspense. “It’s great to have him back. Malik, he’s taken that jump that you’re looking for. Those two guys have really jumped out. Obviously, we’ve got to get Deuce involved. I think that’s important … He’s a guy that was on my mind during the summer.”
