It has been about a year and a half since the Dallas Cowboys acquired Tavon Austin. In the post-draft press conference when asked about Austin’s role on the team, Stephen Jones labeled him a “web back” and said the team would like to get him the ball “a dozen, twenty, two dozen times a game.”
In seven games in 2019, Austin has touched the ball a total of 22 times. Safe to say the prediction by Jones was a bit off. It was never going to be an accurate prediction, but this far off?
Once again this year during training camp, we were treated to the narrative that Austin would fill a larger role in the offense.