Cowboys may have running backs exchange positions

The Dallas Cowboys are luckily having two excellent running backs in Marion Barber and Felix Jones, and the team is glad to see a competition for starting running back job going on during the training camp. According both backs’ health condition and workout performances, it seems that Jones may take over the starting job from Barber.

If taking Adrian Peterson, the running back in No.28 Minnesota Vikings jersey, as the best running back of the league, Jones is now closer to the standard than Barber. According to the Dallas Morning News, Jones showed up in San Antonio heavier than Barber: Jones checked in at 218 pounds while Barber tipped the scales at 214, down about 10 pounds.

Actually the two running backs had been preparing for the new season in different ways. While Jones was adding weight to avoid injuries, Barber was trying to regain some of his burst and quickness that seemed to disappear and make him an easier target to tackle. Whoever is going to be the Cowboys’ starting running back, their hard working will anyway be the team’s benefits. Without a quarterback like the one wearing No.4 Brett Favre jersey, the Cowboys now have at least as many as two excellent running backs.

Jets rookie RB McKnight is trying to avoid embarrassment

The New York Jets singed former USC star running back Joe McKnight in the fourth round of NFL draft to improve the team’s running game, however, the rookie did not seem to fit the team well, and he was vomiting and cramping for most of the three days. But McKnight does not want to give up and decided to dedicate the rest of the offseason to avoid such embarrassments again.

"I went home and worked on my cardio — I did a lot of core training and running to get my wind back," McKnight told The Times-Picayune. "It’s helped me because a lot of papers described me as lazy and not hard-working. I’m still changing that perception of me."

Actually, the rookie has to work hard to at least catch up with other rookies, let alone his aim is to take some snaps from veterans like Shonn Greene, LaDainian Tomlinson and Chauncey Washington. When talking about Tomlinson, who gave up the chance of putting on Minnesota Vikings jersey to join Jets instead, McKnight was filled with admire and said that he was glad for having a chance to play with LT.