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Ezekiel Elliot In Football

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Ezekiel Elliot’s dominance through the first 12 games of the Dallas cowboys 2016 NFL season has been nothing but dominates. He is very quickly becoming one of the NFL’s best backs as he leads voting out of everyone for the 2016 pro bowl. But this isn’t the first time Ezekiel Elliot dominated the sport of football. In just his senior year of high school at John Burroughs High School in Saint Louis Missouri. Elliot had 1651 yards and 37 total touchdowns on just 114 carries throughout 10 games! These numbers are extraordinary as he averaged about 14.5 yards per rush and 32% of the time whenever he got the ball in his hands. This senior year dominance lead to Elliot receiving major offers from big time football schools including Ohio State, Florida State, Notre …show more content…

Throughout his first two games Elliot seemed like a regular rookie who wasn’t patient in the backfield and just wanted to blow through the hole as he only averaged 67 yards per a game but did find the endzone twice. But after this Elliot took the league by storm and blew up and hasn’t looked back from his poor first 2 game performance. In the last 10 games Elliot is averaging over 115 yards per game and finding the end zone 11 times through a 10 game span. He is on pace to surpass 1700 yards and 15 rushing touchdowns. To put this into comparison with some of the best rookie seasons by nfl running backs none can compare except for eric Dickerson who rushed for 1800 yards and 18 rushing touchdowns which are both rookie records. Dickerson ended up becoming a hall of famer and we could be saying the same for ezikial Elliot. As he is having one of the rookie seasons ever and has lead the dallas cowboys to an 11-1 record and leads the league in pro bowl votes. He is pretty much a near lock for rookie of the year and if his dominance continiues he possibly has a shot at the MVP as a rookie which has only unofficially been done by a man we named early earl Campbell who was named nfl MVP by pro football writers of

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