{"id":903476,"date":"2026-05-28T12:09:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/903476\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T12:09:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:09:22","slug":"dallas-cowboys-rb-seen-as-one-of-nfls-most-underappreciated-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/903476\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys RB seen as one of NFL&#8217;s most underappreciated players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Williams was one of the NFL&#8217;s top running backs in 2025, posting 1,201 rushing yards and 11 touchdowns on 252 carries. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/most-underappreciated-nfl-players-top-candidate-for-each-nfc-team-in-2026-season\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to NFL.com&#8217;s Tom Blair<\/a>, the running back is one of the league&#8217;s most underappreciated players.<\/p>\n<p>What exactly makes Williams underappreciated? It was the fact that he had one of the most productive seasons for a Dallas running back in recent memory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That wasn&#8217;t just a veteran free agent on a one-year prove-it contract putting up a nice line for a team that scuffled to a 7-9-1 finish,&#8221; Blair wrote about Williams. &#8220;That wasn&#8217;t even just the best season of his career &#8212; it was one of the best running back seasons by any Cowboy this century.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Blair then pointed out how Williams is part of an exclusive list of Cowboys standout rushers since 2000. Only Williams, DeMarco Murray and Ezekiel Elliott have posted a campaign with 1,100-plus rushing yards and 10-plus rushing touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys understand how important Williams was to their success last season. In February, Williams and the team agreed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2026\/02\/21\/dallas-cowboys-javonte-williams-nfl-free-agency-contract\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a three-year, $24 million deal <\/a>to keep the running back in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>Will Williams add another strong season to his r\u00e9sum\u00e9 in 2026?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Williams was one of the NFL&#8217;s top running backs in 2025, posting 1,201 rushing yards and 11 touchdowns&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066],"tags":[1101,230,229,257,2461,7,6,115985,121010,115811],"class_list":["post-903476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-cowboys","tag-article","tag-cowboys","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-dallascowboys","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-tp-dallas-cowboys","tag-tp-javonte-williams","tag-tp-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116652131189785556","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}