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Surprising Player(s) So Far In Practices?

I think its way to early to draw any real conclusions ... I haven't seen anything really stand out.

The one thing I picked up on ... Garrard likes to throw to Nanee. Does that mean anything?? Don't know. But Garrard's one of the experienced pros on the team & that he's singled out Nanee might say something ... in a cluster-f*** WR field?? Who knows???
 
Westerman, Fuller, Hicks & Martin. Also it is pretty sweet to hear how well Tannehill & Miller are doing.
 
Same three. Fuller has shown up the last two practices. Westerman looks fast in pads and Martin has stepped up. This is a pleasant surprise. He looked a little small and a bit timid in OT's. Now he's starting every practice at 1st team RT.

Rock on rookie :hump:
 
Jimmy Wilson is playing great at SS. Looks like a natural out there.
 
It may be early to say but from the practice reports, it sounds like
Miami has a lot of talented unknowns (around the league) and just needed proper coaching. We'll see
 
I feel like I've read a few mixed reports about the aforementioned fuller, miller, and pruitt... apparently Miller wasn't working with the 1's, 2's, or 3's in red zone work, but he's turned heads with his speed of course. Also a few comments about dropped balls from fuller and pruitt, including a deep ball to pruitt yesterday (I believe) where he was 10 yards away from anyone. But at least he got 10 yards away from his defender. Someone said separation was an issue with fuller, but he's also had some good plays. A few touchdowns for each of those receivers if i'm not mistaken(?) My apologies for not including links or quotes from who's made these comments but I don't feel like digging back through all the tweets. Some of the excitement for fuller, miller, and pruitt I feel like may be built up from pre camp hype though, and when they do something good it may make us forget about when they do things that are average as well. But again, I'm just basing this off of what I've read from the beat writers reports. Haven't been there or anything so I could be entirely off base.

Some of the folks that I don't recall any negative feedback from is Westerman, Jonathan Wade, Bess (same ol bess), Garrard, Tannehill (for the most part, but he's another wagon I feel like people love to hop on at this point and we should wait and see at least till the games, it's only been 2 practices), Starks, and Clay's really been shining apparently. I feel like some of the excitement for some of the players is based on interviews, but I don't think I've heard a player or coach say many bad words about anyone in a single interview, so I don't know if that's a good place to base our opinions. These players are professional media lancers trained to speak nothing that may cast them or their team in a poor light remember.

Dogs of camp thus far... Tyrell Johnson (where'd he go? I thought he was supposed to compete...), Gates (although there has been a few comments about how impressive his speed is, but we already knew that), Ray Feinga apparently had a terrible day yesterday working at RT but that's not his natural position... Really can't think of too many other negatives.

Some other surprises:
-Richard Marshall doing some work in Vontae's position... probably just so they can move around back there and everyone is familiar...
-Not much word about Egnew, has been good at getting separation from linebackers though
-Fasano has been doing some work split out wide... interesting to say the least.
-Haven't heard much about Jonathan Martin so he must not be doing a terrible job blocking Wake amongst others, good for the rook. Also showed that he's no pushover when he got into it with Starks which kind of surprised me from the Stanford man
-I see a lot of love for Jimmy Wilson, and I like him too and hope he does well and starts, but I don't really know where people have been getting these good reports on him from. Other than the fact that he was playing in an injured Chris Clemons place... I haven't really heard anything good or bad about how he played there. Am I missing something?
-I don't know if it's good for the defensive line, or bad for the offensive line, but it sounds like we've been getting a lot of pressure on the quarterback. At the same time I've been reading about an abundance of deep balls. So I don't know how to feel about any of that until we see them play against someone other than ourselves.

Can't wait for more story lines tomorrow :)
 
Tannehill has looked very good.

Marten has been surprisingly good going up against Cam Wake every day.

I'd throw Olivier Vernon in there as fairly surprising because of how raw he was coming in.
 
Over at Phinsider.com they have had 3 very in depth practice reports. The players I have read about, that have surprised have been 1) Pat Devlin - with his new found confidence and arm strength 2) The smooth play of the LB's - Misi seems to have been making a much better than anticipated transition to the 4-3 defense 3) Lamar Miller - With his speed and vision. He seems to make at least 1 big play every practice. 4) Daniel Thomas - Has been steady and consistent in every practice. 5) Jonathan Martin - looks to have improved with every practice at RT. Others mentioned have been Pruitt and Fuller in spite of the occasional drops, have looked like NFL type receivers.
 
Starks name seems to be cropping up a lot in a positive way, though you couldn't call that surprising.
 
Marcus Brown is a name I've been reading a lot since the pads came on. Jonathan Wade is another surprise.
 
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