Shannon Sharpe isn’t alone in believing Ezekiel Elliott doesn’t have much to offer an NFL team, but no one says it quite like he does.
The Dallas Cowboys released Elliott earlier this week, ending the running back’s second tenure with Jerry Jones’ franchise. Elliott averaged just 3.1 yards per carry this season, rushing for a total of 226 yards and three touchdowns. A far cry from some of the All-Pro seasons Elliott enjoyed during his first stint with the Cowboys.
According to Jones, part of why Dallas chose to release Elliott when they did was to give him a chance at landing with a playoff team. That of course assumes a playoff team will be interested in the 29-year-old running back, something Sharpe isn’t so sure of.
“What team in the playoffs need a running back averaging two yards a carry?” Sharpe asked Nightcap co-host Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson. “He’s averaging three. Okay, tell me the team that’s going to be in the playoffs that needs a running back averaging 3.1 yards a carry. By all intents and purposes, it’s over. It’s over.
“At one point in time, Ezekiel Elliott was a thoroughbred, he was a racehorse. Well, when he couldn’t run anymore, you hooked him up to a plow and turned him into a plow horse. Now he can’t even plow anymore, so you know what time it is Ocho? You put him out to pasture because pretty soon, we’re going to have to turn his a** into glue.”
Most analysts, commentators and pundits would have just questioned whether there was a playoff team out there interested in adding an over the hill running back to their roster this late in the season. But only Sharpe is capable of sending Elliott out to pasture like this.
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