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Texas running backs coach Tashard Choice is heading down the road to interview for the same job with the Dallas Cowboys, according to a report from DLLS Sports’ Clarence Hill Jr. on Saturday morning.
The Cowboys will reportedly interview Choice on Saturday as they aim to fill out their coaching staff for the 2025 season. The Texas assistant should be very familiar to Dallas fans, at least the ones old enough to remember that Choice was a fourth-round pick of the Cowboys in 2008 and spent 4 seasons with the team.
Nick Harris of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram recently mentioned Choice and former Cowboys running back DeMarco Murray as 2 names to watch for Dallas’s running backs coaching position.
The 40-year-old Choice, who also played in the NFL for the Washington Redskins, Buffalo Bills and Indianapolis Colts, played his college ball at Oklahoma and Georgia Tech. He was a second-team All-ACC selection in 2006 and 2007 before being drafted by the Cowboys, the franchise he’s now reportedly trying to get a coaching job with.
Choice has worked for the Cowboys before, starting his coaching career as a coaching intern with the team in 2016. He was then an assistant coach at North Texas and Georgia Tech before joining the Longhorns staff as the running backs coach in 2022.
He has been an outstanding recruiter throughout his college coaching career, securing 5-star running back CJ Baxter and high-4-star wideout Ryan Wingo for Texas. He also recruited Jahmyr Gibbs, a top-100 prospect in the 2020 class, to Georgia Tech.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
