Overview

• Jaydon Blue received his first first-team reps Wednesday in Cowboys training camp after progressing from third-team to second-team duties.
• Brian Schottenheimer said that Blue’s enhanced off-field preparation has quelled offseason doubts over his work habits.
• The fifth-round pick has outpaced veterans Miles Sanders and Javonte Williams for early snaps with Dallas’s top unit.
• Blue’s athletic upside is rooted in a 4.25-4.28-second 40-yard dash at Texas’s Pro Day and a 146-yard, two-touchdown performance against Clemson.
• Preseason analysts who deemed the Cowboys’ backfield among the NFL’s weakest now view Blue as a sleeper capable of energizing the running game.