Dallas Cowboys promote assistant OL coach Jeff Blasko to running backs coach

Like with the offensive coordinator role, the Dallas Cowboys and head coach Mike McCarthy are going with another inside hire to replace running backs coach Skip Peete.

Sources revealed to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that assistant offensive line coach Jeff Blasko is taking over as running backs coach.

Blasko has been with the Cowboys since Mike McCarthy took over the team in 2020. He was a coaching administrator under McCarthy with the Packers from 2016 to 2018. Blasko then landed his first assistant coaching job in the league with the Cleveland Browns in 2019. He coached the offensive line for the Browns.

Prior to his career in the NFL, Blasko spent eight years coaching at the college level. He had a three-year stint as a grad assistant at Akron. In 2011, he was an offensive quality control coach at Florida. Blasko then became tight ends coach for Kansas from 2012-14, then filled the same roll at Penn in 2015.

A Robert Morris and Akron graduate, Blasko started his coaching career at the high school level in Pennsylvania.

Former Cowboys RB coach lands gig with Tampa Bay

Former Dallas Cowboys running backs coach Skip Peete has landed the same role with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Peete revealed to NFL Network’s Jane Slater on Tuesday. The former long-time Cowboys assistant was one of eight staff members who did not get their contract renewed for another season in Dallas.

Peete was in his second stint working for the Cowboys. He coached in Dallas from 2007-2012 and against from 2020-22 when Mike McCarthy took over. He also coached running backs for the Raiders, Rams and Bears.

The newest Buccaneers staff member got his coaching career started in the collegiate ranks, beginning with a graduate assistant position with Pittsburgh. He coached wide receivers and running backs at Pittsburgh, Michigan State, Rutgers and UCLA before making the switch to the big leagues.

In college, Peete was a wide receiver at the University of Kansas, earning All-Big Eight Conference honors in 1985.

In Tampa Bay, Peete will work under head coach Todd Bowles. Among the running backs in his new stable, he has Leonard Fournette, Rachaad White and Ke’Shawn Vaughn.

During his tenure with the Cowboys, Peete coached Marion Barber, Ezekiel Elliott and Tony Pollard, amongst others.