ARLINGTON, Texas — In the Dallas Cowboys' postgame locker room, Ezekiel Elliott cradled an imaginary trophy midair.
“When he hits that hole, he’s going 1,000 miles per hour,” tight end Dalton Schultz told Yahoo Sports. “It’s like the guys who are sneaky athletic? He’s sneaky powerful. Zeke’s got run-you-over power. ’s got like, if you try to arm-tackle TP, your arm is going to feel like it’s being ripped off. It’s like trying to grab a moving car. It doesn’t really work.”
The Cowboys enter their bye at 6-2, second in the NFC East, before a Nov. 13 visit to Green Bay, where Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy spent 13 years as Packers head coach. “We didn’t press him to his limit on juice left,” Cowboys team owner Jerry Jones said of Pollard. “He probably had, I’ll guess, a double handful of carries left with a lot of zip.”
“No, there’s no argument,” Jones said. “Zeke’s ability to punish, Zeke’s ability to deliver it, Zeke’s ability to what he does for us in pass protection and frankly Zeke’s ability to make big plays are there. We’re going to go as Zeke goes. I really mean he’s that integral to our success this year.”