Sony Michel Rumors: Saints, Dolphins Host Feeble Rams RB in Free Company
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Free-agent working lend a hand Sony Michel is browsing for a brand new dwelling after spending the 2021 season with the Los Angeles Rams, and it appears he’s generating ardour from teams out East.
Michel has met with the Miami Dolphins and is slated to meet with the New Orleans Saints later this week, in accordance to ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler.
The New England Patriots traded Michel to the Rams sooner than the 2021 season after selecting him within the first spherical of the 2018 draft. The 27-year-primitive appeared in all 17 games for Los Angeles, dashing for 845 yards and four touchdowns.
Michel is also versatile within the receiving recreation, having caught 21 passes for 128 yards and one rating final season.
It be no surprise the Rams didn’t notify unheard of ardour in keeping Michel this offseason. Starting working lend a hand Cam Akers is determined to advance lend a hand for the 2022 advertising and marketing and marketing campaign after missing the 2021 season with a torn Achilles, and Darrell Henderson is determined to lend a hand him up.
To boot, L.A. drafted Kyren Williams and has Jake Funk, Xavier Jones and Raymond Calais on its roster.
Akers became spectacular as a rookie in 2020, too, dashing for 625 yards and two touchdowns, as properly as to catching 11 passes for 123 yards and one rating.
That acknowledged, it be no longer laborious to glimpse why the Dolphins private expressed ardour in Michel. Miami signed Hotfoot Edmonds this offseason and has Raheem Mostert to lend a hand him up, but it would possibly per chance presumably well well unruffled use some extra depth.
Within the lend a hand of Mostert, the Dolphins private Myles Gaskin, Salvon Ahmed, Gerrid Doaks and ZaQuandre White.
New Orleans would possibly per chance presumably well well also use some depth within the lend a hand of Alvin Kamara. Designate Ingram, Tony Jones Jr., Dwayne Washington, Josh Adams and Abram Smith are currently the working backs within the lend a hand of Kamara on the depth chart.
To boot to Michel, Tarik Cohen, David Johnson, Phillip Lindsay, Devontae Booker and Devonta Freeman are amongst the pinnacle free-agent working backs accessible.
