Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has insisted that the running back options that they have this season ensure that they are better off than last year.

The Cowboys lost the NFL's leading rusher in DeMarco Murray this off-season, but Jones is confident that they will deal with his absence successfully.

"When you say the entire running game, and that would be including our tight ends, including fullbacks, the entire game, we're better. We're better," Jones said, according to NFL.com.

"Murray certainly is in that thought, but what we've got a chance to do with our depth, what we've got a chance to do with the talent, the competition that we have, and I'm assuming that we can protect [Tony] Romo, which standing here last year, the concerns about his surgeries were more so than today."

Darren McFadden, Joseph Randle, Lance Dunbar and Ryan Williams will all compete for the role this season, with McFadden expected to start initially.