Report: Dolphins Expected to Hire ex-Giants RBs coach
Eric Studesville is officially the Miami Dolphins’ running backs coach right now, but it seems like that will change very soon. According to Adam Schefter, ESPN’s senior NFL insider, the expectation is that the team will bring on Ladell Betts for that role.
Betts is a relatively new face in the NFL’s coaching ranks, as the 2025 campaign marked his maiden season coaching at the highest level. He served as a running backs coach for the New York Giants.
Former Giants RB coach Ladell Betts is expected to take the same job with the Miami Dolphins.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) January 28, 2026
While the team won just four games and finished dead-last in the NFC East, it boasted one of the league’s more dynamic running games under Betts’ guidance. Only four teams in all of football — the Buffalo Bills, Baltimore Ravens, Chicago Bears, and Washington Commanders — totaled more rushing yards in the 2025 regular season, and the Giants also had four players run for 400-plus yards.
Betts is set to inherit a Miami running game that’s spearheaded by running back De’Von Achane, who’s on the heels of a career year. He managed to reach the 1,000-plus rushing yards benchmark for the first time as a pro and also paced the NFL in rushing yards per attempt.
Achane is the engine that makes the Dolphins’ running game go, though he’s not the only effective weapon Betts will have to work with. Ollie Gordon II, a sixth-round pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, just had a rock-solid rookie season, and Jaylen Wright has proven that he’s capable of some big-yardage games here and there.
Just maybe, the Dolphins’ rushing game will take that next step under Betts’ guidance and rank among the league’s best offensive teams on the ground in the coming season. Such a sizable improvement from the Dolphins in that part of their offense could help keep them afloat in the AFC and in a talented AFC East.