ARLINGTON, Texas — A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, but what's often lost in that age-old bit of wisdom is the fact that there are often things that knock a person back several steps, multiple times, to test their will and resolve toward their goal. Malik Davis can readily attest to the truth of that matter and, on Thanksgiving, the Dallas Cowboys' running back got his chance to take a hundred steps forward.

That's roughly the number of them he took, give or take, when All-Pro quarterback Dak Prescott handed him the ball on 2nd-and-1 from the Chiefs 43-yard line, late in the second quarter, and Davis exploded through the line of scrimmage before juking a defender and turning on the jets to pull away for a 43-yard touchdown.

It was the longest of his NFL career, t

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