WEBVTT - Drive Time: Running Back Offseason Capsule 2025 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:13.760 What is up, Dolphins, and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:17.560 I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:20.400 we move into our third positional capsule of the twenty 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:23.599 twenty five off season slash twenty twenty four review. But 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:26.200 really it's more about the future and heading into what 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:29.560 we might expect next season. So we'll do that. Plus 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:32.800 I have multiple segments planned, but I might push some 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:35.440 off later down the road because well, we have a 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:37.160 lot of time to do this. All. We'll go ahead 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:39.199 and jump right in the running Backs National Championship game 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:42.040 and maybe some more from the Baptist Health studios inside 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:49.000 the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft Time Podcasts. Yeah, 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:51.160 so the programming notes, I just want to make sure 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:52.760 I get right out in front of off the top 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:56.480 here is. You know, I have little bullet points and 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.720 things I've just kind of thought about over the last 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:02.240 couple of weeks. And that's one of the beauties of having, 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:05.360 you know, the every other day program that we have 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:08.080 here in the off season. And you know, I'm certainly 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:13.280 within my capabilities of doing this daily. As you know 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:15.200 that I was the kind of the godfather of the 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:18.440 Lockdown Dolphins podcast doing it daily there, but we don't 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:21.400 do that here, so I'm able to kind of I 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:24.039 don't want to say put more thought behind, but I 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:27.560 marinate on ideas more and I have a quarterback ranking 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:30.280 list I want to get to. I want to talk 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:33.520 about the coaching carousel, but for the sake of time 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:35.559 purposes and the fact that we do have so much, 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:37.520 you know, to get to, or so much time to 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:38.959 get to all the stuff over the course of the 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:41.800 next few weeks, I'm going to do the capsule first 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:44.440 and just kind of see where we come down at 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:47.800 the end of it. Sound good, obviously. I'm sure the 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:51.280 listeners have noticed a bit more liberties here on the 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:54.200 show in terms of what we can do, and I 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:55.640 want to lean into that and make sure that we're 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:58.240 giving you guys the best content possible and not be 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:01.080 so restrictive on certain things and things we don't So 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:05.040 no wide receivers coach yet, no special teams coach yet. 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:07.520 I saw some folks asking me on social about the 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:11.960 idea or the possibility of Brian Hartline. I love that idea, 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:14.480 although I think he's a future head coach in college football, 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:15.960 so that might be kind of tough. To push that 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:19.320 across the goal line special teams. The only name I 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:22.079 really had in my mind or off the top was 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:26.560 John bones Fossil just because of his track record, and 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:28.519 I think the Dolphins could obviously make a big upgrade 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:30.440 there if they went in that direction. But he went 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:33.280 to the Where did he the Titans, I believe is 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:35.480 where he wound up. So we'll give you guys cover 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:37.720 on who winds up being in those positions and how 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.639 the Dolphins run out their staff and everything really everything 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:43.079 from now until they play a football game in September. 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:45.480 And before we get to the running back position, let's 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:48.440 go ahead and talk about that national championship game because 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:50.000 today is kind of the only day that makes sense 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:53.760 to do that, right, because we're still we're about about 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:58.320 forty hours removed when this podcast will publish from that game. 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:03.040 And my first thought is, did any of you guys 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:07.320 sense the least amount of juice for a college championship 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:10.799 game in that one than any game other of all time? 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:15.280 Like I forgot that it was on that Monday multiple times, 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:17.600 And in fact, we were shooting Dolphins HQ last week 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:19.760 and my producer was talking about how he thinks the 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:21.160 game was on Saturday, and I was like, is it 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:23.920 really That's that is exactly what college football should do. 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.360 Put it on a big Saturday before NFL playoffs. Like 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:29.560 I do think that they got way too late into 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:31.800 the calendar in terms of it being on January twentieth, 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:36.200 but the Saturday night before the conference championships. That kind 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:38.320 of makes some sense, doesn't it. Why did I just 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:41.960 go full Trump? I don't know, So that was something 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:45.440 I kind of thought off the top. My other thought 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:49.240 was the playoff bracketing kind of ruined it, Like I 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:52.520 don't Notre Dame getting that path, and of course Carson 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:55.160 Beck and his eyes being too far apart was the 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:58.400 second biggest issue he had besides the injury. Him not 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:00.480 being out there made that game kind of a breeze 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:02.800 for Notre Dame. And I thought Penn State would win 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:05.000 against Notre Dame as well, So I don't really know 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:06.640 how they were able to get all the way through there. 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:08.680 I thought those were two better football teams they beat, 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:12.920 but just kind of lacked juice. And for Ohio State, man, 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:15.600 I like the playoff. I like these bigger games down 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:18.640 the stretch, but like it used to be, if you 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:20.479 lost to Michigan brought you didn't get to go to 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:23.159 the game, So I don't know. It's it seems it 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:28.800 almost seems diluted. I think college football is. It's a 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:32.680 they've leaned into what it. One of the elements of 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:34.240 it that I loved about it, and that's the fact 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.200 that it's the minor leagues. It's it's minor league football 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:39.440 is what college football is. And I used to love 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:41.640 it for the pageantry and the tradition and the rivalries 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.600 and the local interest, but that's gone. So that's all 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.599 it is anymore at this point. I like watching tape. 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:48.000 We're gonna get to the running back class here in 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:49.840 just one second, which has like thirty names that you 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:53.320 can consider draft eligible or draft worthy prospects this year, 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:55.640 on top of a free agent class that is total 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.960 do probably the worst free agent group there is the 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:01.719 year at the running back position. But in that game 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:06.200 Quinn Shawn Judkins and Trevion Henderson, Oh brother, I like 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:08.240 both those players quite a lot. We'll save that for 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:13.560 the future segments. Is it Riley Leonard like, you know, 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.120 gonna be a future general manager of a car dealership, 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:17.800 And then Will Howard will see him at the Senior 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:19.120 Bowl this week. I don't really know how I feel 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:21.440 about his game, but a Mecca Obuca man, we'll talk 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:23.640 about receivers down the road here. That's a guy that 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:26.479 in the second round seems like the type of player 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.919 the Dolphins need at that position for multiple reasons. Speaking 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:33.080 of receivers, I was I was watching Ted McMillan, the 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:35.680 Arizona kid. I didn't know he was six ft five 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:37.200 like I seen him on tape, but I only was 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:40.159 six foot five. He plays big man. I'm interested in 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:43.159 him at thirteen as well. Anyway, that was the national 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:46.400 championship game. It's just stunk. I love Marcus Freeman. I 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:48.919 think he's gonna be a future possible NFL head coach. 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:51.600 Ryan Day, you know, kind of saves the day there 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:53.080 in Ohio State. It was like they wanted to fire 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.240 him before the Michigan After that Michigan game, and now 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:58.120 here he is a national champion. But my biggest takeaway 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:00.800 from the game was like snoozefest man. That was boring. 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:02.240 I didn't even care about it. I didn't watch the 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:04.920 second half of the game, just really couldn't care less. 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:06.960 So the college football has to figure out their sweet 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:08.640 spot because they used to have it, in my opinion, 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:10.760 and this year they're expanding and trying new things. I 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:13.120 think they kind of overshot it. They have to reel 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:15.440 it back in because that was a pretty much of 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:19.479 a joke of a National Championship game, hard pivot. Like 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:22.080 I said, I have some thoughts here on I did 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:24.280 a new quarterback list. I want to talk about the 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:27.000 coaching carousel here in just a second, or not just 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.200 a second, but at some point, but I want to 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:31.080 wait until I gets more rounded out. I do think 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:35.560 it's interesting that the AFC East in a league in 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.880 an era where offensive coaches are kind of the in 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:42.320 vogue thing. And you know, I remember Brian Florish's talk 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:44.679 all the time about like not being defensive minded, and 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:47.440 I always appreciated that perspective. But if you ask Mike Vrabel, 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:49.719 he'll say the same thing. I'm a football coach. I 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:52.560 don't have an offense or defensive perspective. It's you know, 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:54.440 they get tabbed with what they coach, what they played 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:59.560 in the past. And we have seen this exodus of 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:02.760 Roberts Law and obviously Bill Belichick, and they bring in 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:06.680 Gerrod Mayo, and they X, you know, acts out Robert 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:09.600 Sala and Jeff Olberg gets the interim, so they're like defense, defense, defense, 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:11.800 and they come back out this cycle. The Jets don't 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:14.280 have the young quarterback, but the Patriots do, and they 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.720 go out and they hire Mike Rabel, a defensive guy, 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:18.400 and they go out and they hire Aaron Glenn, a 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:21.400 defensive guy. And then Sean mcdermot's a defensive guy who's 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:24.040 grandfathered into that position from a previous era, right and 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:27.520 Bill Belichick obviously was that. But it's the only division 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:31.280 in the NFL that has seventy five percent defensive minded coaches. 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:33.520 And I think it might make things tougher on Tua 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:35.800 to produce against those teams when he goes out there, 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.160 especially the Patriots, who he kind of seemed to figure 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:39.840 out that scheme over the years, and now he's gonna 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:41.360 have to figure out a scheme that has given him 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:43.920 issues with the with the Titans in the past. But 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:46.840 it's interesting to me, I think that we don't really 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:49.320 see that very often, and I think I think of 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:51.040 Rabel Moore as like a culture guy on like a 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.520 tone setter and just a CEO of the program, which 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:55.200 I kind of think is a good idea in today's 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:58.080 NFL with the way players are just a sidebar. I 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:00.200 just drove home from drop taking my kids a daycare, 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:02.480 and I drove by several bus stops on the way 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:05.160 back home. Dude, every kid is just this is like 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:07.559 such an old band. Take what's the deal with airline food? 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.280 Every kid is so locked in on their phone it 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:14.760 kind of makes me sad. Man, I don't know, let's 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:16.800 just put a pin in that, right, there's let's go 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:18.560 ahead and pivot out to the running back position here, 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:20.800 you know, and talk about the Dolphins internals, a group 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:23.520 that I thought was gonna be far more productive than 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:26.880 it was in twenty twenty four. I'll never forget one 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:29.440 day after practice, you know, Waddle and a Chan hang 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:31.559 out together a lot, and Raheem was kind of pals 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:33.920 around with them, and Reek Wood here and there, but 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:37.240 not so much. And I was like telling them, I 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:38.360 was like, yeah, I saw the four of you guys 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:39.920 in the sideline together. I was thinking to myself, what 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:42.200 is that about five thousand yards worth of offense right there? 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.520 And they were all like, yeah, yeah, probably, And they 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:46.240 didn't even come close to that. And the running back 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:47.880 position was a big part of that. With Raheem, most 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.679 are kind of being relegated to a secondary role. And 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:53.400 my general take on all of this, and you know, 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:55.760 I still think you could argue it has maybe the 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.640 most talent in the room of any position group. But 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:03.400 I just thought the management of the room itself was 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:07.520 about as wrong or as misplaced as it was in 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:09.920 any other area of the team, though I can certainly 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:13.640 understand the ideology behind why it was the way it was. Like, here, 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.040 you have this back that is truly capable of springing 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:18.000 a big one on any given play, and you know, 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:20.320 I've seen cutups from the coaches where they talk about 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:23.280 his ability to make adjustments and hit small creases and 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:25.880 follow his track, and he turns these eight yard runs 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:29.280 into the electric ones. And the concept of having backs 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:31.960 that can do everything in your offense helps maintain that 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:36.920 illusion of unpredictability. Though I would argue that the Belcow 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:39.480 situation with Devon a Chan, which is who we're talking 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:43.400 about here, made things predictable because a He's just not 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.440 a pure inside runner. The vision is not there, it 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.559 doesn't exist for him. Be I thought his vision and 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:52.280 decision making was really, really poor this year, and that 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:54.600 comes with the seven hundred and four to two hundred 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:58.240 and seventy eight snap difference for a chant to Raheem 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.640 to one seventy one for Jalen Right, So your top 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:03.160 three backs that was gonna be a little bit more 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:06.400 of a committee, just a stark shift from years past 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:09.200 when they would rotate and use guys through. And those 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:12.200 data points are without mentioning the lack of simply grinding 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:14.680 it out back there. You just can't search for the 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:17.360 home run on every single carry and the result of 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:20.679 that was the most negative runs in the NFL since 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:24.800 twenty seventeen. They had eighty runs that lost yardage this year, 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:27.079 and with the way the offense was kind of hamstrung 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:30.880 to playing short, it really it really put a damper 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.640 on things. And the biggest caveat and the most positive 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:36.360 one is I think that he offers a chan just 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:40.520 as much value as a true flexed out option in 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:43.440 the passing game, and that, paired with the more with 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:46.760 the move up to get Jalen Wright, made me believe 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.480 there was an approach here to get both those players 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:51.960 on the field. And I called for right to Wally 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:53.920 pitp Raheem most of the year, I thought he would 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:55.800 do that, and I thought we got that in the 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.480 New England game back in week five or six, the 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:02.040 game that Devon mostly missed that concussion, but he became 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:04.760 reduced in his role. It actually just became more Devon, 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:07.959 So we saw a vastly different split, and it tells 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:10.640 you how valuable this position is in the offense. As 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:14.640 the group saw, excluding alec Ingold, twelve hundred and twenty 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:17.319 four snaps of the team's eleven thirty eight, so they 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.000 were averaging more than one running back on the field 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.320 per snap on the field at the time, and if 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:25.360 you include the fullback, it goes up to fifteen sixty one, 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:29.320 so substantially more usage of this position than others. And 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:31.800 I have no issue at all with the pairing of 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.360 twenty eight and twenty five next year as the top 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:36.560 two guys, but I think it needs to be even 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.679 without additional snaps going to Devon as a receiver and 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:42.760 run that from twenty one personnel or hell, we talked 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:44.959 about tight ends in the show. How about twenty two 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:48.560 personnel grouping that has John Eu and Tyler Warren, Devon 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.800 and Jalen Wright and Jalen Waddle as the other eligible. 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:54.720 I like that five man lineup that maintains the speed 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:57.160 element you had with Reek. Via Devon, you get that 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:00.280 Josh Jacobs factor with the physicality I cannot stop talking about. 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:03.840 With Jalen Wright, fix your blocking woes off the edge 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:06.720 to a degree and have multiple size options with a 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:09.440 bona fide number one receiver and we'll get into that 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.360 in the receiver episode. With Waddle, I can argue about 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:14.320 his skill set until I'm blue in the face. But 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:16.400 just food for thought there about how the construction of 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:19.120 this whole thing could look if they make a pivot. 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:22.520 The individual players here. Devon ah Chan number twenty eight, 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:24.959 truly one of the most dangerous players in the league. 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.440 With the football in his hands and when he's feeling 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:29.920 it like he was in that Jets game, he can 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:32.640 take over games. Sixty yard runs, twenty yard runs, a 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:36.280 fifteen yard touchdown run. That is needle moving running back play. 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:40.280 But we didn't hit explosives like that really all year long, 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:42.520 like we did all year long and twenty twenty three, 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:45.079 which to me goes back to the usage with how 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.319 you had him with Brahim as a change of pace 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:50.600 compared to the Belcow aspect of a chance game. It 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:53.800 reduced the number of explosive plays where we really really 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:56.240 lacked them, and that's the number one reason the teams 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:58.640 didn't give us more chances to throw the football down 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:00.480 the field. If you can't run it and can pay 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:02.559 for having those light boxes with explosive plays in the 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:05.480 running game, they're not gonna get involved down in the 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:08.120 box in the fit and open up the explosive lanes 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.199 in the passing game, because hey, if you can only 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:12.200 run in for five yards max, we're gonna take away 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:16.320 the deep passing game. One of my very favorite parts. 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:18.760 I think you could look at Devaughan in his third 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:21.120 year with the process to get him more involved in 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.200 even more ways, and one of my favorite parts of 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:25.840 his game was those digs where he could sink his 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:28.080 hips into the break and angle that route off at 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:30.520 ninety degrees, explode off the top of the route and 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:33.160 make a tough catch off his frame. He doesn't really 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.280 have any interest in providing security for the quarterback and 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:39.000 pass protection, so those snaps I want to reduce as 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:42.560 much as you possibly can. In twenty twenty four, Raheem 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:44.320 most Or at number thirty one was kind of next 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:48.800 in the pecking order here, kind of got relegated after 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:51.120 that fumble against the Bills, which I understand. Just a 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:53.200 difficult year for a guy that just one year ago 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:56.559 scored twenty one touchdowns and produced just under twelve hundred 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:59.120 yards from scrimmage. Starts with that injury in the open 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:01.160 that forces him out of the lineup for three games, 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:03.800 comes back and logs his highest rep count of the 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:06.600 year against the Patriots with forty four, has that fumble, 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.360 and Indie plays thirty snaps against the Cardinals, then the 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:11.920 fumble in Buffalo and saw his snap count reduced for 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:14.439 about a month. But then he did finish the year 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:17.200 with four consecutive games between twenty one and twenty six 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:19.360 snaps in each of those four games. Never really got 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:21.560 going like he did in twenty twenty three, but man, 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:23.960 the flashes were still there. Like the Patriots game I 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:26.640 mentioned when he was rolling up defenders still love to 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:30.360 watch his blend of track speed and sure sheer determination. 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:33.280 I think that the way he runs really soften things 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:35.560 up for HN and twenty twenty three in a way 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:37.400 that it did not in twenty twenty four. One of 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.160 my favorite Dolphins backs to watch over the years, quite honestly, 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:42.400 and the injuries, the fumbles and a player that I 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:44.680 think is a budding star behind him and Jillan Wright 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:48.080 all kind of points to a relatively obvious cap move here. 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:50.280 You can get out for a million in dead cap 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:53.000 space compared to over four million if you bring him back, 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:54.800 and that could be a swing tackle or a starting 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:57.560 safety over a number three back, which to me makes 0:14:57.560 --> 0:14:59.280 a lot of sense. Speaking of your number three back, 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:01.680 number twenty five, Jaalen Wright, his snap count tailed off 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:05.480 at the end of heam's run of twenty plus snap 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:07.760 games down the stretch, and I think it really came 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:09.880 after that fubble against the Jets that the touchdown or 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:12.960 the Patriots touchdown when he fumbled the snap between he 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.240 and Skylar Thompson. But I still contest that this is 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:17.120 one of the young players I'm most excited about for 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:19.480 twenty twenty five. I think you can cut the tape 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:21.680 on rights runs and compared to the rest of the room, 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:24.680 put together arguably the most impressive package of straight up 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:29.360 impressive runs with good pacing decisions, balance power, backside vision. 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.080 I think you can utilize Jay Dubb in a variety 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.160 of concepts and schemes. I think that he could he 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:36.160 could be your change up to the duo and inside 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:38.840 zone encounter. He can create explosives in a way that 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:41.440 I don't think most backs can. We saw it in 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:43.840 the New England game with the broken tackles to big plays, 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:45.600 and he damn near slipped out of one against the 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:47.400 Jets in that finale where he could have had a 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:50.200 long touchdown run there too. I'm buying big on Jalen 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:54.360 Wright's upside in his sophomore season. Jeff Wilson, when I 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:56.040 think a number twenty three, I think about the run 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:58.640 he had with the Dolphins in his first two games 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:01.320 where he posted like two hundred forty yards from scrimmage 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:03.280 in three touchdowns against the Bears and Browns back in 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:06.000 twenty twenty two, and the twenty twenty three Cowboys game 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.480 winning drive, his crucial runs there on third and short, 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:10.280 and then the fourth quarter of this year against the 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:12.080 Jaguars where he kind of took us to victory in 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.360 that one as well. He brings an element of power 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:16.880 to the backfield and a personality the locker room that's 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:20.080 impossible not to love. One of my favorite people. He 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:22.600 is scheduled to be a free agent. I cannot imagine 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:24.200 he is back. I always thought he was a bit 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:26.720 miscast in this room. Not the system, but the room, 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:28.520 and there is a difference there. He's a good zone runner, 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:31.600 but the explosiveness was never his game. What this room 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:35.560 needs we talked about it power, physicality, pass protection, as 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:38.520 semblance of balance in terms of what people are good at. Luckily, 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:40.680 I think you have those things, and I cannot imagine 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:43.000 this team thinks differently given the assets that used to 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:45.760 go get Jalen Wright. Look, I don't get it, I 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.720 really don't. I mean even that indie game he gets 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.280 five for thirty three and really never gets a good 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:53.720 look again coming off a thirteen for eighty six game, 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:55.840 and I think that's certainly going to be a there's 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:58.160 certainly going to be a back or two added this offseason. 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:00.760 But man, if it's not a chan and right one 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:02.840 A and one B, then I think you made a 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:06.480 major miss in terms of resource allocation and projection of 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:08.879 the player's development. That needs to be the case in 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:11.200 twenty twenty five. This is not a room that needs 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:14.520 significant resources allocated to it, just some power, which I 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:17.040 think it has. That's all I crave and for those 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:19.479 traits that we are missing. Let's go ahead and take 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:21.200 a break, come back and talk about the free agents 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.320 and the draft prospects at running back in this year's 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:26.520 class Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:33.760 you by AutoNation. If the Dolphins are interested in the 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:36.880 running back position, I do not imagine it will come 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:41.240 via free agency because watching this class doo dooo, man ah, 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:43.200 it was tough to watch. It starts off. I'm gonna 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:45.080 go on athmetical order here for the guys that I watched, 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:46.520 and I will tell you about the ones I did 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:49.440 not watch and why Cam akers There is an absence 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:53.720 of a second gear that is jarring. But but I 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:55.919 can see the fit and the vision, really good patience 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:58.919 to press the scrapebacker into the wrong direction then wind 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:01.119 it back to that lane. And perhaps this is all 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:03.800 the experience he had with Minnesota, with the Rams, with 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:06.520 the Houston Texans. But he sees stuff open, presses it, 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:09.280 anticipates it and gets there without having to give away 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:12.520 where he's going. There's just nothing special there. He's not twitchy. 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:14.320 I mean, the injuries have kind of robbed him of that. 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:16.960 He's not explosive or even fast. He's just a good 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:19.800 runner that processes and sets up blocks. Well. He's not 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:21.920 a threat on third downs because he can't pass pro. 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:23.640 He's a player that you're gonna watch. If you see 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:26.360