The back injury that has kept Zack Martin sidelined during training camp is seemingly no longer an issue for the Cowboys starting right guard.Martin hasn’t been able to practice since the early stages of training camp due to a back issue that was becoming problematic. Martin had an MRI done to see the extent of the issue and no serious ailments were found. After missing two games left season due to a knee injury Anthony Brown Color Rush Jersey , Martin is vowing to play every game this year for Dallas.“My goal is to be out there for every game this season,” Martin said, via the team’s website. “Knowing that my teammates can count on me week in and week out, I take great pride in that. That’s something that I’m working to get back to.”Martin missed two of the team’s final three regular season games last year against Indianapolis and the New York Giants before appearing in both playoff games. He won’t play in any games this preseason as he won’t play in Thursday’s finale against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Martin had played in every game for Dallas during his first four seasons with the team.Martin feels as though the rehab process as been beneficial and that he is in a much better place now than early in camp.“I think we’ve executed the plan well and we’re putting ourselves in the best position to be out there each week,” Martin said. “I’m definitely better now than I was in Oxnard a month ago.” When the Cowboys discuss the list of players who merit new contracts https://www.dallascowboysfanshop.com/Joe-Looney-Jersey , running back Ezekiel Elliott rarely gets mentioned. Which makes it fair to ask whether Elliott is a priority — and whether he could eventually be allowed to leave via free agency, like DeMarco Murray previously did.Cowboys COO Stephen Jones recently made it clear that the team wants to keep Elliott around.“Well, I think those are all a work in progress,” Jones said in a #PFTPM interview, via NFL.com. “Certainly we’ve got a couple years there with Zeke to get that done. We certainly want to get him done. He’s the straw Mike White Jersey , if you will, that stirs our drink. He’s a key part of what we’re about. Those things take time to get done. They don’t happen overnight. Certainly he’s a priority in terms of ultimately getting him signed. There hasn’t really been a timetable put on this.”The fact that the Cowboys have the fifth-year option as their disposal makes it easier for the team to wait to sign Elliott. But the longer he waits, the more he carries the risk of the kind of injury that will keep him from ever getting paid what he deserves.The fifth-year option, added to the labor deal in 2011, gives teams the right to squat on a first-round pick for another year Damien Wilson Color Rush Jersey , in lieu of signing him to a long-term deal, applying the franchise tag, or watching him walk away in free agency. It’s bad for the player, and it actually makes it better for a player to be taken high in round two instead of being taken low in round one.For Elliott, the contractual status necessarily makes him less of a priority than he otherwise would be. And it puts the onus on Elliott to make himself more of a priority https://www.dallascowboysfanshop.com/Te … ens-Jersey , perhaps by uttering one of the most memorable (and most NSFW) lines from .