Watch: Dolphins RB Salvon Ahmed mic’d up versus Bears

Watch: Dolphins RB Salvon Ahmed mic’d up versus Bears

The competition in the Miami Dolphins backfield appears to be heating up. Miami entered this offseason with a perceived need at the running back position, only to watch the team go in different directions with their premiere assets and instead place much of the workload back onto some familiar faces from 2020. Yes, the Dolphins drafted Gerrid Doaks and signed Malcolm Brown to help boost the power in the backfield. But Myles Gaskin appeared to be in the driver’s seat for 2021.

Salvon Ahmed may end up having something to say about that before things are all said and done. Ahmed has looked explosive during training camp and got himself on the board during Miami’s first preseason clash of August with a receiving touchdown against the Chicago Bears — a wheel route that featured a good adjustment to the football and showed awareness to make sure he tucked the football inside the pylon.

The Dolphins, conveniently enough, had Ahmed strapped up for the game with a microphone — and it gives us a fun look behind the curtain at the action on the field from this past weekend. The Dolphins faded in the second half with their backups in the game, but generally controlled the pace of the game through the first 30 minutes with the starters and key backups in the game. For now, Ahmed is the latter. But if he keeps making plays like the one he scored on this past weekend, he may find himself classified as a “starter” himself before the end of the season.