Murray was 2 years older than Zeke when they were drafted.
Given the life of RBs, that's a pretty significant fact.
Murray was 27 when his rookie contract was up. Coming off a monster year in Dallas, also a year he had almost 400 attempts.
I liked Demarco, we did actually offer him a deal, the Eagles just overpaid, and ended up trading him for a 4th round pick after one year. We were right.
I know the RB trends (the first person to say "but 27 years old" or "1800 carries" is getting shanked), and Zeke's agent is going to try and get him a whopper of a deal. I'm honestly pretty fine with anything that's not completely outrageous, where we can get out from under it when he's 27-28. I'm really not that concerned about him through then as long as we keep him around 300 carries.
I could see it going either way really. Option and tag is $20m in guaranteed for just two years of rights, so that's right along the lines of "want to get a deal done" territory. It's ultimately up to Zeke imo, unless we just offer a crap deal, which I don't think we will. Agents nowadays can just pick the biggest recent contract at the position and hand wave until late in the process, whispering sweet nothings into players ears who have usually never dealt with this kinda negotiation or money before. I imagine whether Zeke stays or goes is his willingness to get on his agent a bit, and how much he actually wants to stay. If he wants the largest RB contract in NFL history, then yeah he's probably gone.