The Dallas Cowboys officially named Rico Dowdle as RB1 entering Week 11 and he shared his reaction to the long-overdue news.

The Dallas Cowboys’ running back-by-committee experiment is dead. The time of death, officially, was around 11:24 a.m. on Thursday when head coach Mike McCarthy declared that Rico Dowdle is the team’s bell cow.

The Dallas Cowboys are looking for a spark on offense with Dak Prescott sidelined for the remainder of the year, and head coach Mike McCarthy is hoping to get it from one of his running backs. Rico Dowdle has been the Cowboys’ best running back this season,