Jaylen Wright showed promise during his rookie season with the Miami Dolphins, but his production dropped off in the back half of the year and he still hasn’t recorded his first touchdown. Heading into his second season in Miami, the running back is confident much better days are coming soon.
“I just really feel like, and I know I can be a top back in this league,” Wright said Thursday in an appearance on Up & Adams. “I feel like just my skill set, my ability, and the system I’m in, it sets me up to be great.”
The Dolphins are similarly confident in Wright’s abilities. The team traded away a 2025 third-round pick to get the fourth-round pick it used to take Wright in the 2024 NFL draft. And now the team is expecting the second-year back to step into the shoes of veteran Raheem Mostert, who was released by the Dolphins in February.
Miami head coach Mike McDaniel is also hopeful that a year spent with Mostert, De’Von Achane, and Jeff Wilson Jr. will yield dividends.
“I think Jaylen Wright benefited tremendously from coming into the league in a very competitive room,” McDaniel told reporters in June. “I think when that’s the case, you learn how little room for error you have to execute your job responsibilities or to have complete ownership of your assignments, because if you’re a hair off, or a hair late, or a hair indecisive, there’s decisive people who are talented that can contribute to the team.”
Now Wright appears primed to join Achane as part of a one-two punch in the Dolphins backfield.
“In the pass game, I’m going to be way more involved this year,” Wright said on the Up & Adams Show. “Way more involved in everything. Run game, pass game, pass protection, everything.”
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