What would you say is Achane's value this year and moving forward?
The market is not with RB's for sure, but a speedback is something different. I'm looking at value for position here and if someone came to Grier with ______ for Achane, what would it take you to move him? Would it be draft pick(s), would you consider moving him in a trade netting us a better player at a more needed position or would you not move him at all and keep him in the stable?
And yes, I understand, it's been one year, "hes the best back we've drafted in a decade", "why don't we keep him more than a year and see" and all that. It's just a hypothetical so keep the panties un-bunched please.
Achane's value at the type of RB he could be is way way way higher, then what Miami could get for him.
All teams saw and will see is a short, undersized speed back that had great success early then got hurt, and his success dropped.
What the Dolphins staff and fans hopefully saw is an unsized speed back that took more then one d-player to bring down, and even then took another yard before stopped. What they saw is a RB so explosive that with a little blocking, he was almost consistently hitting double figure yards...add one mistake by one or more defensive players, and it became "See you inside the Goalline"
Because of his POSSIBLE potential, I would not let him go for less then a high 1st, or a mid to low 1st and a 2nd.
Yes, I know, ridiculous, no team is going to pay that for a RB that's a huge (?), but that is the problem, his potential is off the charts, this a RB that started getting play time in week 3, and by the time he got hurt, he was close to overtaking NFL top RB Christian McCaffrey.
Think about that, gave the best RB in 2023 a 2 game headstart, then started quickly to each week come closer and closer to overtaking him within a game or 2. No team can expect to get a player like that cheap, injury, and only 1 year experience notwithstanding.