Gaskin Hangs Tough As Miami Brings in Slew of Free-Agent RBs

No one thought Myles Gaskin was simply going to put down, did they?

Following a Miami Dolphins teaching change and ensuing franchise tweaks, Gaskin has heard the continual requires a brand new operating again to interchange him and acknowledged the massive contingent of free-agent competitors introduced in to problem him.

Assembly with reporters for the primary time since final season ended, the previous College of Washington standout and the Dolphins’ returning starter final week assumed a decided stance that folks again dwelling in Montlake would acknowledge.

“You compete along with your greatest buddy, your brother, whoever it’s,’ Gaskin stated, “so I’m a competitor to my core and I at all times have been.”

Getting into his fourth NFL season, the Huskies’ all-time main rusher shall be challenged by free-agent signees in Sony Michel, Chase Edmonds and Raheem Mostert, plus former Husky Salvon Ahmed, who’s been in Miami for the previous two seasons.

The 5-foot-19, 194-pound Gaskin comes off a season wherein he began 10 of 17 video games, led the Dolphins with 612 yards speeding and scored 7 TDs general.

Michel, who performed collegiately at Georgia, enters his fifth NFL season. The 5-foot-11, 215-pound again began 7 of 17 video games for the Tremendous Bowl-champion Los Angeles Rams, rushed for 845 yards and scored 5 TDS in 2021. He beforehand shared in a Tremendous Bowl victory with New England. 

Edmonds began 11 of 12 video games for the Arizona Cardinals final fall and rushed for 592 yards and a pair of scores. The 5-foot-9, 210-pound again is a fifth-year professional from Fordham.

Mostert appeared in only one recreation in 2021 for the San Francisco 49ers, after speeding for 521 yards the season earlier than. The Purdue product has performed seven journeyman seasons within the NFL.

As for Ahmed, the man Husky comes off a Dolphins season wherein he appeared in 12 video games and rushed for 149 yards. 

Gaskin has readied himself for the added competitors in Miami, recognizing that that is how the NFL operates, which you could by no means get too snug. 

He spoke about caring for his physique as a lot as he may through the offseason and finding out movie of different backs throughout the league, making an attempt to choose up nuances that would make him higher.

Gaskin will not be giving up his position with the Dolphins with out placing up a substantial combat. Competitors? Convey it on.

“That is my staff that I like,” he stated. “I like these guys and once they usher in another person, I imply, I am excited. I have been on this place the place you possibly can simply study from older guys who’ve been round. Clearly, these guys have performed in large video games. We went to Sony’s home simply yesterday. He obtained two Tremendous Bowl trophies sitting in his entrance room. 

“These are the kind of guys you wish to be round, guys which have received the Tremendous Bowl, been in enormous playoff video games, received enormous video games, and simply type of study from them.”

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