Four-time Pro Bowl running back Dalvin Cook has signed with the Dallas Cowboys with less than two weeks remaining before the NFL’s opening weekend.
Cook spent his 2023 NFL season with the New York Jets, playing as the second-string running back under Breece Hall, who returned from injury after missing the second half of his rookie year after tearing his ACL in Week 7 of the 2022 NFL season.
Dalvin Cook has averaged 92 scrimmage yards per game in his career, 107 if you take out his season with the #Jets, where he never really found a home.
— ThePredictors (@Thepredictors_) August 28, 2024
Now, the #Cowboys backfield consists of Ezekiel Elliot, Rico Dowdle, Deuce Vaughn, and newly acquired Dalvin Cook. https://t.co/T6cBwVOVQw
Cook ran for 214 yards on 67 carries in 2023, his first season under 1,000 yards rushing since 2018. From 2019-2022, Cook received four straight Pro Bowl nods with the Minnesota Vikings. However, in his first year in New York, splitting carries with Hall, Cook could not find the endzone for the first time in his professional career.
The 29-year-old running back will join former Cowboys and Patriots running back Ezekiel Elliot, who joined his former team at the beginning of the 202 NFL off-season. After granting wide receiver CeeDee Lamb a $136 million contract extension on Monday, August 26, the Cowboys have plenty of weapons in their offensive arsenal, with Cook adding more depth to their running back room.
Dalvin will debut for his third team in three years on Sunday, September 8, when the Dallas Cowboys take on the Clevland Browns in Ohio.
