In just over three weeks, the Miami Dolphins will open training camp for the 2020 season ahead — and with it face the prospect of building upon a promising “foundation” year in 2020. The Miami Dolphins surprised everyone last season with a 5-4 stretch to finish the season and promptly followed suit by nailing down one of the most prolific college quarterbacks in recent history, plus a slew of new faces to add to the team.
The Dolphins will hold camp this year with fan enthusiasm as high as it has been in quite some time. But amid the restrictions of this offseason due to the ongoing health crisis, can the Dolphins rise to the challenge? We’ll be taking a look at each position group for the Miami Dolphins ahead of the start of training camp and exploring which storylines are most pressing to monitor as the Dolphins look to improve in year two under Brian Flores.
Here are the Dolphins’ key storylines in training camp at the tight end position.
Can Mike Gesicki repeat or improve upon 2019?
The explosion from Mike Gesicki over the second half of the 2019 season surely allowed many Dolphins fans to let out a big sigh of relief. Gesicki was bad as a rookie in 2018, but a competent coach seems to have put him in a much better position to have success moving forward. The challenge now is that the Dolphins have remodeled their offense once again in 2020 with new play caller Chan Gailey.
Tight ends have not been a staple of his passing games in recent years, but then again Gailey hasn’t really had many good ones to work with. Gailey typically sees to it that his best targets get the majority of the looks in the passing game — so if Gesicki is the second-best target this season for Miami he should get the opportunity to follow up 2019’s success.
Or so we hope.