These are the things we learned Friday when DeMarco Murray retired from football.
Life is precious for all of us, but for running backs it is precious and short. Emmitt Smith, you have nothing to worry about. Ezekiel Elliott, don’t count on that second contract. And you Cowboys were right (sort of) when you let Murray go.
There’s plenty to chew on here, but let’s start with this. Murray was a very good running back but only briefly a great one. In 2014, everything he had to offer came together (it happened, not coincidentally, to be Zack Martin’s rookie season) and he set the Cowboys record with 1,845 yards rushing.