The free agency equivalent of Mr Irrelevant in the draft. I doubt he beats anybody on the roster currently out of a job. And ya'll counting Gaskin out WAY to early.
I don't know, a great pass protection back is a valuable asset. Wouldn't be shocked to see him crack the starting rotation on 3rd downs.
Although I had him in my mock for that draft, this makes little sense imo and is just a waste of cap space.
There’s a lot of threads about this skill position player or that skill position player. That’s all fine and dandy but however we’ll or poorly they’re going to play this coming season all depends on one thing and one thing only…the offensive line. A great offensive line can make an average running back look good and a good running back look great! Same thing with a quarterback, but we’ve beaten that horse to death already. Bottom line, we’ve been extremely active during the off-season trying to shore up the running back position. Kudos to the team for putting a genuine focus on a position this team has neglected for far too long but if the line up front can’t produce the blocking that’s needed, it’s not going to matter who lines up in the backfield. Barry Sanders-esque running backs don’t grow on trees.
I feel like I am way higher on him than a lot of people on this thread. He looked pretty good in LA last year, and I could seriously see him stealing reps. I think we are gonna see a running game more akin to SF or traditional NE. I know in SF, they loved to ride the hot-hand, and as known by any fan of fantasy football, the Patriots are wildly sporadic on their RB touches. I am really expecting our backfield to look differently week-to-week.
I think McDaniel is starting to take this run the opposition into the ground line of thinking a step too far. At this rate we'll have a 53 man roster of running backs.
Some of the ones we brought on board have potential to be cut right? If gaskin or ahmed compare well, we can't carry everyone. Even if they don't, how many backs will be active at a time, will any of the FA tolerate being inactive on game day?
I suppose Mostert has had injury issues and so at least some of this is taking his unreliability into account.
Exactly. Ahmed - Guaranteed $0 Gaskin - guaranteed only $20K Doaks - Guaranteed $25K Michel - Rumored almost no guarantee, but haven’t seen official number. They can cut 4 of their RB’s and it would cost them like 100k. People are overreacting, these guys are basically trying out for the team for free. Even Mostert only has 1M guaranteed, so maybe Michel was signed bc Mostert’s recovery is not going as planned or incase injury and age causes him to lose a step in camp. Edmonds is the only RB with any sort of commitment (from team) to play for the Dolphins this season.
Michel will be the starter at some point in the season. He has the experience and has played on many winning teams.
Gaskin has proven that he's absolutely nothing special. Edmonds has never run for 600 yards in a season, or had 1000 yards from scrimmage. He's a solid 3rd down back and shifty, speedy runner. But he's not going to be a heavy payload guy. Mostert is 30 years old and has missed 75% of the games the last two seasons. He's a lottery ticket, but I don't think that we should be relying on huge production. Hoping that he's the guy who came out of nowhere at the end of the 2019 season for SF is probably unrealistic. Meanwhile, Michel has run for at least 800 yards in three of the past four seasons. His third best rushing season is better than anyone else on the roster's best. He's going to be useful on this roster! He's not a Pro Bowler, but I can't believe that some people think he could get cut before the season starts. We need him to run between the tackles and bang out four yards at a time. No one else is doing that on a regular basis. I hate RBBC, and would strongly prefer to have one solid back who touches the ball 75-80% of the time, but that's not the reality of the 2022 Dolphins. So a 40/40/20 split with Michel/Edmonds/Mostert is probably our best bet for the time being until they can draft a long term solution.
One thing to keep in mind- we've struggled run blocking for the past three seasons and a lot of folks will translate that to the RB not being good. But that's not how it works. The first few yards are always on your offensive line...a good run block in the gap you're hitting will get anyone 2-4 yards off the bat. If someone gets to the 2nd level and chops the linebacker as well, it's going to be a 5 or 6 yard run...or maybe a TD without being touched. Scheme and blocking makes up most of those yards in the trenches though, not the RB himself. The RB's talent comes in at the 2nd and 3rd level, how fast they can cut and find daylight. We don't know how solid Gaskin and Ahmed is in that category because we've rarely seen them in those positions to be set up for success. There were some instances last year where run blocking fell into place but it wasn't common enough to really know what we have in the RB room.
Well I personally think that Michel could end up being the starter for us. Again, like everyone else is saying, it's RBBC, but Michel will get the goal line carries, Edmunds will be his backup, Mostert is a low risk/high reward dart throw and nothing more.
Pretty meh overall, but he's competition and depth. He may also have some Patriot intel, and it would be fun to see him have a big game against them lol.
It would be really sweet if Week 1 was a throwback to Week 1 of 2014, when we ran about 40 times for 200 yards against them, and Michel had a big day like Moreno did back then. Of course, I'd hope the rest of his Miami career went better than Moreno's did.