Dowdle is on the verge of hitting a critical landmark that would truly establish himself as an RB1 ahead of free agency

Cowboys running back Rico Dowdle enters the final two weeks of the regular season with a chance to reach a career milestone: 1,000 rushing yards. Dowdle has 903 yards on 190 carries as the Cowboys face the Eagles on Sunday.

Brock Hoffman, the Cowboys' right guard, will love it. Nobody talks more on the field than Hoffman. In hockey parlance, he is the Cowboys' enforcer. In football lingo, he plays to the echo of the whistle.

The expectation entering the season was that if Dowdle could stay healthy, he had the best opportunity to be the Cowboys’ leading rusher. That probably meant he would end up with something like 600 to 800 rushing yards while No. 2 running back Ezekiel Elliott was somewhere in the 400 t0 500 range.