FRISCO — One of the positives with the Cowboys’ offense is the running game. The running attack is averaging 5.4 yards per carry, second in the NFL and 11th overall at 125 yards per game.
Lead running back Javonte Williams is off to a career-best start. He’s averaging 75.5 yards per game after the first three weeks of the season. Williams averages 46 yards per game in his career.
“I definitely feel like I’m running like I was in my rookie year,” Williams said, referring to 2021. “I feel like I got a little bit more knowledge on the way the plays are blocked up, the scheme. I feel like it’s really making the game slow down.”
Williams is almost three years removed from a torn ACL suffered in the fourth game of the 2022 season. He said it would take almost a year after surgery to feel completely normal. And in 2025, he’s displaying that especially when it comes to contact.
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Williams isn’t afraid to go against contact, something the Cowboys are relishing.
“I just feel like if that’s a last resort, that’s what I got to do,” Williams said of running through defenders. “If I can juke somebody, I really rather juke somebody. But I mean, sometimes it just happens. I don’t have no other choice but go straight.”
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