Jaydon Blue was expected to compete for a starting job with the Cowboys after they turned over their running backs room. Instead, the fifth-round pick was a healthy scratch in Week 1.

Blue, whose work habits were questioned in the offseason by a former Cowboys offensive assistant in the know, has not earned the right to play, coach Brian Schottenheimer said this week.

“He’s extremely talented,” Schottenheimer said, via Schuyler Dixon of the Associated Press. “He really is talented, but there is a way you have to perform, especially with a mantra of compete every day. If you’re not putting it out there and doing right every day and if you take a step back on a Thursday -- maybe you did great on Wednesday but on Thursday, not saying he did -- that’s going to get noticed. This is an inc

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