The Cowboys will dive head-first into their head coaching search in earnest this weekend as Kellen Moore, Robert Saleh, and Leslie Frazier are set to officially interview over the next few days. Of course, that will do little to quell the rumors about top coordinators whose teams are still in the postseason- like Aaron Glenn and Ben Johnson- or other notable celebrities like Deion Sanders, Bill Belichick, and even Jason Witten.

But there’s going to be a shakeup involving much, if not most, of the rest of the Cowboys coaching staff, too. And that means the Joneses are weighing candidates for much more than just the top job.

New potential coordinators and position coaches are likely going to be coming through the doors of The Star in short order. And it sounds as if a few of them will be, just like several of the head coaching prospects, familiar faces within Cowboys Nation.

Nick Harris of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram has revealed that two former Cowboys stars could be vying for the same role on the new staff.

Tashard Choice and DeMarco Murray are said to be under consideration for the role of running backs coach, Harris said during an appearance on The Zach Gelb Show. Both were successful ballcarriers for the team in the Wade Phillips/Jason Garrett era.

Choice is currently the running backs coach at Texas, a job he’s held since 2022. He served the same role at Georgia Tech and North Texas prior to that.

GLENDALE, AZ – DECEMBER 25: Runningback Tashard Choice #23 of the Dallas Cowboys rushes the football against the Arizona Cardinals during the NFL game at the University of Phoenix Stadium on December 25, 2010 in Glendale, Arizona. The Cardinals defeated the Cowboys 27-26. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

A fourth-round draft pick by Dallas in 2008, Choice played for the team for three-plus seasons, but he was largely overshadowed by Marion Barber III and Felix Jones for most of his tenure. He compiled 1,139 rushing yards and averaged 4.6 yards per carry wearing the star.

He went on to play for Washington, Buffalo, and Indianapolis before wrapping up his playing career in 2013. By 2016, he was back in Dallas, on the staff as an intern to begin his coaching journey.

With the Longhorns, Choice was instrumental in helping to develop Bijan Robinson into a Doak Walker Award winner and a top-ten draft pick.

Murray’s arrival and rapid rise in 2011 as a third-round pick, ironically, was the spark that sent Choice packing out of Dallas. The 6-foot-1-inch back started his rookie season as the Cowboys’ third-stringer but finished as the team’s top rusher, a title he would keep for four straight years.

He holds the franchise’s single-season record for rushing yards with the league-leading 1,845-yard effort he put up in 2014. Murray also earned an All-Pro nod and was the NFL’s Offensive Player of the Year during that sensational 12-4 season.

Nov 28, 2013; Arlington, TX, USA; Dallas Cowboys running back DeMarco Murray (29) carries the ball against the Oakland Raiders during a NFL football game on Thanksgiving at AT&T Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports

Murray made the Pro Bowl two out of his four seasons in Dallas before entering the free agent pool in 2015. He played one lackluster year in Philadelphia but then landed in Tennessee, where he returned to Pro Bowl form in 2016 with another 1,000-yard season. He retired from playing after the 2017 season.

Murray is in the NFL’s top 75 in all-time rushing yards and remains the Cowboys’ No. 7 all-time leading rusher. Like Choice, Murray returned to the college ranks to coach running backs; he spent 2019 in Arizona and has been with his alma mater of Oklahoma since 2020.

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Jerry Jones loves to bring popular former players back to the Cowboys, as he’s shown repeatedly over the years. It’s not inconceivable that Moore (or maybe even Sanders) ends up as the team’s head coach in 2025, and Harris confirms that “it is a widespread expectation that [Witten] is going to be on staff in some capacity.”

Now it appears that either Choice or Murray could be back on the Cowboys payroll as well.