DeeJay Dallas

Or they can roll him out and create an opportunity.

But if that number of moved pockets, rollouts... scrambles and broken pocket move-arounds to get sight lines and find somebody down the field who's adjusted, like the Jordan Addison play or the DJ Dallas play from however many weeks ago it was, if that number is 10 to 12, this team wins this football game.

And let me tell you, Ben, I'm going to say, I think if that number continues to be 10 to 12, this is one of the best teams in football.

I look forward to being wrong about that, I don't know anything about anything, but I'm going to throw that out there, and we'll all watch it.

So the last time that Miami had a return touchdown, Miami Hurricanes with Devin Hester, Kevin Williams, like Roscoe Parrish, a history of returners.

Last time Miami had a return touchdown, DJ Dallas versus Pitt, November 24th, 2018.

I know this was towards kind of the end of your tenure there.

I think you'd already announced at that point.

But do you remember this play? Do you remember DJ Dallas as a returner in general, man? Because this has been a long, long time.

I remember pointing up the field, trying to make sure the guys, you know, got up the field to get the blocks.

DJ was definitely a guy that's just a playmaker with the ball in his hands.

They want to make the big splash play.

If Aaron is not able to go or is on a reduced schedule, they're basically down to Jordan Mason as the sole running back because their third running back is a rookie named DeMond Claiborne that they drafted in the sixth round, and they have not been ready to trust him with many – significant number of carries in any given game.

And they have a veteran DJ Dallas, that's been mostly a special teams and a third down blocker kind of guy.

And so it'll, the Aaron Jones things will be interesting in the sense that does that mean that Jordan Mason is going to be the sole running back in this game or just the majority of it or half of it or how that split's going to go.

So we'll see how the week plays out.

Good for Jordan Mason, bad for a normal running back.

However, they do seem to somewhat believe in DJ Dallas as a passing down back, which is like...

I mean, how many teams have tried? I believe this is team number five to use DJ Dallas in this way.

They won't forward to Mason the way that they threw to Aaron Jones.

So he'll project worse.

Mason returned from the injury reserve in week seven and gave Minnesota a capable option who can handle a larger role moving forward.

DJ Dallas is another name to monitor, but hey, I don't want to go that far into the weeds yet.

Another running back, how about Brees Hall of the New York Jets? We have that quad strain there, the fantasy impact.

I mean, what do we do with Braylon Allen right now? I mean, if Hall misses, Braylon Allen, fire him up.

If Aaron Jones were to miss time, it's possible that all of those reps go to Mason.

I don't know if they would be comfortable rolling with just Mason and DJ Dallas and Debon Claiborne.

But if that were to happen, that could be a huge boost to Jordan Mason.

Not that we're getting a ton of running back targets here in Minnesota anyway.

Let's say Aaron Jones doesn't play.

What are we assigning Jordan Mason? Do we think Jordan Mason can get to a 9% target share, a 10% target share? Or are we just going to learn DJ Dallas or Max Bredesen?

Yeah, I mean, from a rushing standpoint, I think it's easy because you just basically treat him the same way that we were treating Aaron Jones while he was out.

But obviously the difference between them as players, it's a lot easier to assign targets to Aaron Jones.