The Miami Dolphins are bringing a South Florida product again residence and including one other tailback to a crowded working again room.
The Dolphins have signed former New England Patriots working again Sony Michel, a former Broward County highschool soccer standout at American Heritage, the workforce confirmed Tuesday. Michel will get a one yr, $2.1 million deal, based on ESPN.
Michel has collected 3,137 dashing yards with 18 touchdowns and two extra receiving in 4 NFL seasons after he was drafted as a late-first-round pick of Georgia in 2018. His first three had been with the Patriots, the Dolphins’ AFC East rival, and he spent final season with the Los Angeles Rams.
He was gained two Tremendous Bowls between his two prior stops. As a rookie on the 2018 Patriots, he scored six touchdowns throughout the workforce’s run to the Tremendous Bowl victory over the Rams.
At 5-foot-11 and 215 kilos, Michel can current Miami with a between-the-tackles runner in a crowded backfield that principally has fast, elusive working backs. The Dolphins added Chase Edmonds and Raheem Mostert in free company and have Myles Gaskin and Salvon Ahmed getting back from final yr’s roster.
Michel began his NFL profession with back-to-back 900-yard dashing seasons for New England in 2018 and 2019. Though Michel averaged a career-high 5.7 yards per carry in 200, he missed about half the season between a quadriceps damage and stint on the reserve/COVID-19 record.
Throughout his time in New England, Michel shared the backfield with one other Broward County highschool soccer standout in James White (St. Thomas Aquinas). The Patriots traded Michel to the Rams within the 2021 preseason.
Michel bounced again in Los Angeles final season, enjoying all 17 video games, beginning seven, dashing for 845 yards and 4 touchdowns for the Tremendous Bowl champs. For his profession, Michel has 47 receptions for 386 yards.
Michel first grew to become a family title in South Florida when he burst onto the native highschool soccer scene as a standout eighth-grader for American Heritage. He and Buffalo Payments huge receiver Isaiah McKenzie fashioned a dynamic duo that lifted the varsity to its first state championship in 2013.
A five-star recruit out of highschool, Michel performed his school soccer at Georgia, the place he went alongside McKenzie. There, he break up backfield reps with Cleveland Browns working again Nick Chubb earlier than getting drafted by New England with the thirty first choose of the 2018 draft.
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