OXNARD, Calif. — A model as huge because the Dallas Cowboys invitations a scorching highlight.
Rookie fifth-round decide working again Jaydon Blue realized that early this offseason when former Cowboys offensive assistant Glenn Smith (2000-2001) kick-started rumors that the 21-year-old was viewed in the building as “borderline lazy.” Blue himself denied that declare final week and stated that rumor added fuel to his fire. Present Dallas working backs coach Derrick Foster sided along with his rookie on Wednesday, declaring that he did not assume Blue’s work ethic was in query internally.
“He is rising as a participant, and I feel if you come into this league as a younger participant, there’s plenty of issues that you do not know and that you determine when you begin getting your toes moist somewhat bit. He is maturing in that regard. I feel within the spring he was somewhat far behind than what we wished him to [be]. I feel now he is exhibiting indicators of professionalism,” Foster stated. “Going about his enterprise the appropriate approach, doing the small issues and being detailed and simply stuff like that. He is very good, and I do not assume his work ethic is in query. I feel he does a very good job in that regard.”
Foster has truly been stunned that the 5-foot-9-inch working again, who weighs 196 kilos and is extra recognized for his velocity within the open discipline, has already displayed a knack for with the ability to navigate working between the tackles early on in coaching camp.
“He is a affected person runner. He is received an actual good really feel for it. He is received pure instincts, a few of these traits that you just actually search for in a again, and I feel as soon as he sees that opening house, he is not been afraid to stay it up inside within the gap and actually attempt to decrease his pads,” Foster stated. “Now, we nonetheless started working on that somewhat bit, however he is actually stunned me when it comes to with the ability to run between the pads. In order that was one of many issues that I actually wished to see along with his stature and his physique construct, might he try this? I feel he is finished a very good job of displaying that means to have the ability to run between the tackles.”
A between-the-tackles run at Monday’s follow particularly caught Foster’s consideration. It appeared Blue can be stonewalled for a brief acquire of a couple of couple yards, however the rookie’s steadiness and poise allowed him to leap reduce his approach out of bother and into the open discipline for a breakaway run.
“He had a run right here a pair practices in the past, and he was sort of struck out and received some daylight there, and he exploded into the open discipline,” Foster stated. “He actually felt it, and … on an out of doors zone, he caught his foot within the floor and simply burst and accelerated by means of the road of scrimmage. It is like ‘OK, that is the burst of velocity that we search for.’ So man, he is very proficient and received a few of that juice, so he can take it residence.”
Blue has begun to obtain a handful of reps in follow in Oxnard with the first-team offense, but when he retains placing rushes like these on tape, he’ll proceed to fly up the depth chart in a rush.