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Running Back · Dallas Cowboys

Javonte Williams

No. 33 · 6th season

Javonte Williams ran hard enough that Dallas had to bring him back

Last year, Javonte Williams showed up in Dallas on a one-year deal worth $3.5 million. The kind of contract that says: prove it.

Williams had been around the league long enough to know what that means. A prove-it deal is a clock. You run until someone notices, or you don't.

He noticed — and so did the Cowboys. Williams carried the ball 252 times, crossed 1,200 rushing yards, and scored 11 touchdowns. Those aren't just numbers; they're the resume he built in real time, one carry at a time, through an entire season.

Now he has a new contract with Dallas. That's what the prove-it deal was always supposed to be: the audition before the real offer. Williams ran his way into one.

The question now is what he does with the room he just earned.

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