DeMarco Murray, the Oklahoma running back and third-round draft pick of the Cowboys, says he’s already considering himself a full-time player for Dallas. But he has no idea when he’ll actually have a paying job.
Murray told the Dallas Morning News that he moved out of his campus housing at Oklahoma and is currently living in an extended stay hotel in Dallas while he waits to see when the lockout ends.
“Hopefully, when the lockout ends, I’ll find a nice little spot,” Murray said. “But it’s just kind of hard right now.”
Murray is working out with his fellow Cowboys, and he’s also been getting advice from his college teammate, Rams quarterback Sam Bradford. And he said he’s trying to learn as much as he can based on the tiny amount of contact he had with Cowboys coach Jason Garrett after he was drafted.
“He told me,” Murray said, “to make sure I am ready for everything.”
Murray says he’ll be ready just as soon as the lockout ends, and that even if he hasn’t found a house, Dallas is now his permanent home: “I’m here full-time now.”
