Ezekiel Elliott may be holding out of camp as he awaits a new contract from the Dallas Cowboys, but that does not mean he doesn't want to be with the Cowboys for the rest of his career.
The running back told Keith Gordon of Maxim that he hopes to be in Dallas forever:
“I love playing for the Dallas Cowboys, I love the organization, my teammates,” said Elliott. “I do want to be a Cowboy for the rest of my life and hopefully that’s a possibility. But even Emmitt Smith, the greatest running back ever, ended up going to play a couple of years for another organization. So it’s just the nature of the game, but I want to be a Dallas Cowboy for as long as I can.”
Of course, Smith's situation was a bit different, as he spent the first 13 years of his career with the Cowboys before joining the Arizona Cardinals for the final two.
Elliott, on the other hand, entered the NFL as a first-round draft pick of Dallas' in 2016, so he does not have nearly the type of tenure that Smith had before he left the Cowboys back in 2003.
The 24-year-old has two years remaining on his current deal and is set to earn $3.9 million and 2019 and $9.1 million in 2020, but he is obviously worried about his long-term security, especially considering that he has led the NFL in carries in two of his first three seasons.
Elliott is coming off of a 2018 campaign in which he rushed for a league-leading 1,434 yards en route to a Pro Bowl appearance.
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