National outlet puts recent strength of Miami Dolphins in the middle of the league entering the 2025 season originally appeared on A to Z Sports.
2024 was a tough season for the Miami Dolphins’ who missed the playoffs for the first time since the 2021 season at 8-9. The Dolphins’ offense, after a strong 2023 showing, struggled for much of the season.
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Between an offensive line that was flat-out terrible for much of the year to Tua Tagovailoa missing 6 games due to injury to Tyreek Hill dealing with a nagging wrist injury and never getting in sync with whoever was taking the snaps., the unit that looked almost unstoppable for much of 2023 was very much stoppable for most of 2024.
The Dolphins hope things will be different in 2025 with the offensive line adding two new starters on the interior and Hill and Tua having an offseason to try to get right health-wise. And the hope is that they will get back to killing teams with a speedy downfield passing attack that was bottled up in part due to an offense that couldn’t keep defenses honest running the ball.
However, one national outlet doesn’t quite see Miami’s top QB/RB/WR trio as among the league’s best anymore. CBS Sports NFL writer Jared Dublin ranked all 32 teams by their best QB/RB/WR-TE combo, and Miami came in 15th with Tua Tagovailoa/De’Von Achane/Tyreek Hill.
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This is what Dublin had to say about the Dolphins’ trio:
Miami is a tough team to rank for several reasons. First, there’s the injury risk to Tagovailoa, which is obviously significant — and which has tended to have a dramatic impact on the capabilities of the rest of the team to look anything like an actual NFL offense. Then there’s Achane, who set records as a rookie and came back to earth as a sophomore. And finally there’s Hill, who took a step backward last season and has myriad off-the-field concerns to deal with. Miami winding up in the middle of the pack despite all that to deal with feels like an accomplishment.
I’m not sure I would say that Achane “came back to earth”, in the sense he’s saying he wasn’t effective. He absolutely was. He just wasn’t ripping off a 7.8 yards per carry average that was never going to be sustainable no matter what Miami was doing on offense. Achane still had a strong year with 1499 scrimmage yards on 281 touches (203 rushes, 78 catches) despite the problems in front of him.
If Hill and Tua are healthy, and Miami can make teams pay for keeping their safeties off the line of scrimmage with at least an adequate run game this fall, their connection stands to talk a sizable bump in productivity from 2024. That is, of course, if Hill can stay happy and avoid drama, which isn’t a given with how this calendar year has gone.
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We’ll see if Miami can make being 15th on this list laughable come the end of the year, and if they can, then the Dolphins should be back firmly in the playoff race again.
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This story was originally reported by A to Z Sports on Jul 21, 2025, where it first appeared.