Veteran NFL running back Chris Johnson sees the glaring hole in the Dallas Cowboys backfield and he knows just who should fill it.
"I'd fit good in Dallas," Johnson said recently per TMZ. "They need it. Yeah. That's what we're trying to do."
Whether the Cowboys "need it" or not is debatable, but it has been something of a foregone conclusion since last season's leading rusher in the NFL, DeMarco Murray, defected to the rival Philadelphia Eagles in free agency that Cowboys GM/owner Jerry Jones would look to find some big name to fill that empty 2,200 all-purpose-yard void.
The signing of injury-prone former first-round pick of the Oakland Raiders, Darren McFadden, in free agency seemed like something of a stop-gap move for Jones while he did his best to either maneuver the Cowboys into a position in the 2015 NFL Draft to grab either Melvin Gordon or Todd Gurley or, perhaps even work NFL back channels for a shot at a trade for a player like Adrian Peterson.
None of those potential avenues for upgrade has come to fruition though and the Cowboys backfield suddenly looks thin.
McFadden has talent - he was the fourth-overall pick in 2008 for a reason - but he's amassed just 4,237 yards rushing on 1,038 career carries. He's also only managed to play a full 16-game slate once in his career.
While Johnson, affectionately known as CJ2K, is nowhere near the player he once was when he took the league by storm as a member of the Tennessee Titans, he's still got a fair amount of the explosiveness that initially helped him to NFL success.
For a bad New York Jets team last season, Johnson produced a career-low 663-yards - not great by any measure - but his per-carry-average of 4.1 still dwarfed McFadden's 3.4.
Johnson was recently involved in an incident in Florida which resulted in his being shot in the shoulder, but according to NFL.com, he has shown no ill-effects and looks as lightning quick as ever.
For the Cowboys, McFadden simply isn't a safe bet as the bell-cow back considering his limited career production - yes, even on the Raiders - and injury history.
If his price tag isn't steep, Johnson could provide a nice one-two punch for the Boys as they look to replace Murray's prodigious production and repeat as NFC East Champs.
Johnson may have to wait for a training camp injury to find a roster spot in most places, but Dallas seems to be a landing spot in the right here and now.
