Chase Edmonds is heading into the fifth season of his NFL career, and he’s working with his third coach.
For the last three years, Edmonds has been coached by Kliff Kingsbury, who runs an Air Raid system in Arizona, and it’s been pretty successful when their team is healthy.
Now, in Miami, Edmonds is working under new Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel, who’s bringing his zone running and west coast passing schemes from San Francisco.
This will be a change for a number of players including Edmonds, and the former Cardinal touched on that change from his previous offense to this one.
“I would actually say it’s probably going to be harder because Kliff was spread and no-huddle,” Edmonds said after Day 1 of minicamp. “The scheme is always going to be simpler because it’s more about tempo and speed. We would just have one word and then a play. Here, it’s true NFL pro language. That’s what I was doing my rookie year when we had Mike McCoy as my OC. So just getting used to the language, hearing an entire play call, understanding what part of the play call is talking to me, what part of the play call is talking to the wide receiver, variations and stuff like that. Again, I’m excited for that challenge.”
In his rookie year under Mike McCoy, Edmonds was the backup behind David Johnson. Edmonds totaled just 208 yards on 60 attempts that year (3.5 yards per attempt) and scored twice.
However, Edmonds is excited to work with some of the zone-running concepts.
“I think for me, it’s how they run this offense and how they window dress,” he said. “I was just saying they make a lot of things look the same. But yet there are small kinks and differences that really open lanes up for us. It really holds a defense to be disciplined and always in their gaps. If the miss a gap, that’s when a lane opens up wide open for me. That’s something that I’m looking forward to and experiencing that.”
Edmonds has an opportunity in Miami to be the lead back in a trio of veteran ball carriers that includes himself, Raheem Mostert and Sony Michel. In an offense that’s predicated on speed, he should be able to show the league what he’s capable of.
