four-year contract extension<\/a> worth between $64 to $68 million. \u201cBeing RB1 and star of the team, I got to be that. Whatever the team needs out of me, I\u2019m willing to give it to them.<\/p>\n\u201cWhen something needs to be said, sometimes the team needs that. The team needs someone to talk.\u201d<\/p>\n
Achane\u2019s teammates have noticed him taking the greater leadership role.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust him being more vocal and being more comfortable in talking roles and showing his leadership by what he does and his actions on the field, off the field,\u201d third-year left tackle Patrick Paul said. \u201cI think that\u2019s how he leads.\u201d<\/p>\n
As Achane grows in his profile within the Dolphins roster, he still seems to be largely underrated across the league.<\/p>\n
The popular Madden video game rates him as the 11th-best running back in the NFL entering the season. The Packers\u2019 Josh Jacobs, Chiefs\u2019 Kenneth Walker and Rams\u2019 Kyren Williams are among tailbacks rated higher.<\/p>\n
\u201cMadden is a video game, so I don\u2019t take that seriously, but it is what it is,\u201d Achane said. \u201cI don\u2019t put too much mind to it.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody got their opinion. Me, I feel like I\u2019m going to always be No. 1 to me. Everybody\u2019s got their favorites, so underrated, overrated \u2014 it don\u2019t matter.\u201d<\/p>\n
Achane has his blazing speed, but he\u2019s also small at 5 feet 9, 191 pounds. What separates him from many other running backs, though, is how he can be an extra receiver on the field on passing plays.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a special player,\u201d said wide receiver Jalen Tolbert, impressed by his route-running and hands as a running back. \u201cI obviously knew about him before I got here, but actually seeing him \u2014 because he didn\u2019t do much in OTAs \u2014 but actually seeing him in practice and watching him in routes on air to team periods, is special. It\u2019s no reason that he shouldn\u2019t double down on what he did last year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Achane will have a lot asked of him on the new-look Dolphins offense, but he appears primed to handle it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI GARDENS \u2014 For as long as De\u2019Von Achane has been a Miami Dolphin, he\u2019s always had the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[114,123,1763,125,124,119,110],"class_list":["post-367705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-latest-headlines","tag-miami","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}