If the Cowboys- or any other team, for that matter- want to see the top running back in this year’s rookie class work in real time ahead of the 2025 NFL draft, they’ll have to travel to southwestern Idaho to do it.

Boise State phenom Ashton Jeanty will reportedly not participate in on-field drills at this year’s scouting combine, which kicked off Monday. The 21-year-old will instead only do medical evaluations and team interviews while in Indianapolis, and save his workouts for Boise State’s pro day.

That news comes from a report by NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero, who cited Jeanty’s agent as the source.

Running backs are set to arrive in Indianapolis on Tuesday, with their on-field workouts not slated to begin until Saturday.

Jeanty finished the Broncos’ 12-2 season with 2,601 rushing yards, the second-highest single-season total in college football history. He was a unanimous All-American, won both the Maxwell Award and the Doak Walker Award, and was the runner-up for the Heisman Trophy.

The former Frisco, Tex. high school star is widely expected to be a first-round draft pick and has been linked to the Cowboys in numerous mock drafts.

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Running back Rico Dowdle led the Cowboys last year with 1,079 yards on the ground, over 63% of the team’s total rushing yards for the season. But he’s set to hit free agency, with no guarantee he’ll be brought back. The club’s second-leading rusher, Ezekiel Elliott, finished with just 226 and was released prior to the season finale. No other Cowboys player had more than 95 rushing yards for the entire season.

Jeanty will be the latest in a growing number of college prospects in recent years who are electing not to perform for teams at the combine’s neutral site, opting instead to wait until those same NFL coaches and scouts invariably come to the more controlled environment at their own school, where they can run on turf they’re used to and in a setting more like the one they’ve been practicing in.

The date for Boise State’s pro day has yet to be announced, but it is expected that most- if not all- NFL teams will send a representative to watch the electrifying Jeanty work.

The Cowboys currently have the 12th overall pick in this year’s draft.