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Jerry Jones has a knack for saying just the right thing to spark debate, get the fans riled up, and put the Cowboys squarely in the headlines. But despite what he said, the details of Ezekiel Elliott’s latest Cowboys contract are very telling in what the team actually expects to get from the running back’s return to the field. The fact that the club opted not to draft a ballcarrier is still causing some head-scratching among experts, and we’re learning that one draft pick will be using his late-round selection as extra motivation this summer.
Elsewhere in the News and Notes, a former Cowboy who was sent to Dallas as part of an ill-fated trade once upon a time has now made a home in the area with an eye toward tackling food poverty. We’ve got insight on what Eric Kendricks brings to the Cowboys defensive huddle under Mike Zimmer, and we’re watching in awe as Micah Parsons goes one-on-one against a professional sumo wrestler in Japan. All that, plus the inside story of the Cowboys superfan whose emotional message on draft weekend went viral, and we bid farewell to a longtime NFL veteran whose own story intersected with the Cowboys at two key career moments.