Earlier this week, Dolphins coach Jeff Hafley talked about the workload he has planned for running back De\u2019Von Achane. And Hafley included a number that was eye-popping.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just gave Achane a heads-up this morning and I told him you better be in good shape,\u201d Hafley told Rich Eisen. \u201cI told him there might be some games when I have to pick him up and carry him back to the locker room because he\u2019s going to be so tired. I told him I don\u2019t ever want to see one of these head taps all year, and he looked me right in the eye and he said, \u2018You\u2019ll never get that head tap from me.\u2019 I said, \u2018Don\u2019t worry buddy. After you touch the ball 40-45 times<\/a>, I might have to pick you up and carry you back into the locker room.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n After Friday\u2019s preseason opener, Hafley made it clear that he was exaggerating.<\/p>\n \u201cI hope everybody realized and listened to the tone in my voice when I said Achane was going to get 40-plus carries,\u201d Hafley told reporters. \u201cI guess I just have to be more careful, but sometimes I like to joke around a little bit, too. Some people really believe that, they can believe that.\u201d<\/p>\n Whether Achane ever gets to 40 touches in a game (Derrick Henry was the last player to get to 40, with 41 in 2021(, it\u2019s clear that Achane will be a major cog in the Miami offense. Against the Commanders, Achane had seven carries in only one drive. He gained 39 yards, an average of 5.6 yards per carry, and he capped a 14-play effort with a one-yard touchdown run.<\/p>\n \u201cSeven carries is a really good job, I was proud of him and I was proud of the O-Line for the way that they blocked,\u201d Hafley said of Achane\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n While Achane\u2019s workload in a single drive in a preseason game may not be indicative of a normal drive in a regular-season games, the touches will add up quickly if he\u2019s getting 5-7 touches in any given drive.<\/p>\n In 2003, Dolphins running back Ricky Williams led the league with 27.6 touches per game, for a total of 442. Since then, only Chiefs running back Larry Johnson (457 in 2006) and Cowboys running back DeMarco Murray (449 in 2014) have had more. After the season expanded to 17 games, only 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey (413 in 2025) has had more than 400 in a single year.<\/p>\n That\u2019s 24.29 per game for McCaffrey last year. An average of 27 touches per game would break Larry Johnson\u2019s single-season record from 20 years ago.<\/p>\n So even if Achane never hits 40 in a single game, he could be on track to have the most touches in one season that any NFL player has ever had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this week, Dolphins coach Jeff Hafley talked about the workload he has planned for running back De\u2019Von…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-814663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}