• Mike Gesicki: 6 receptions, 69 yards, two touchdowns
• Tyreek Hill: 12 receptions, 177 yards
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Monitor the health of the Dolphins quarterbacks: Skylar Thompson left the game in the early second quarter with a thumb injury and didn’t return.
- Tua Tagovailoa missed his second straight game with a concussion.
- Teddy Bridgewater passed his concussion protocols late in the week and was active as the backup. He took over when Thompson left the game.
- Tagovailoa is expected to return as the starter next week.
- With bye weeks in full swing, Tagovailoa could be a waiver wire target in some leagues. However, the Dolphins offense hasn’t found as much success in recent weeks compared to the beginning of the season.
Sell high on Mike Gesicki: The Dolphins tight end scored two touchdowns, but it occurred in a game without Durham Smythe.
- Smythe was limited all week with a hamstring injury, but the fact that he was practicing means he will likely return to the lineup sooner rather than later.
- Gesicki saw an increase in snaps and pass routes, but it wasn’t enough to reach the numbers he put up last season.
- He achieved a season-high 16.7% target rate. Of course, that rate isn’t anything to get excited about, but he was able to produce those stats as the Dolphins ran 55 pass plays.
- His success occurred with backup quarterbacks, but next week he will likely go back to Tagovailoa, who might not throw to him as much.
Dolphins backfield back to normal: Chase Edmonds regained the backup job, and the backfield split looked a little more how we would expect compared to recent weeks.
- Edmonds had lost snaps to Myles Gaskin in the second half last week after dropping two passes.
- Gaskin was a healthy inactive this week, while Salvon Ahmed was active but didn’t play on offense.
- Edmonds played most of the snaps in both the two-minute drill and third downs.
- Raheem Mostert still got 14 carries but gained only 49 yards.
- The former 49er is a buy-low option, as the Dolphins will get healthy at quarterback with a much easier schedule.
- Edmonds can be left on the waiver wire in leagues with light benches, but he seems like a safer handcuff than he did a week ago behind a running back with a history of injuries.
Dalvin Cook dominates snaps: The Vikings backfield had inched closer and closer to a running back by committee, but that changed against the Dolphins.
- Cook handled a clear majority of snaps in every situation.
- Alexander Mattison took only two three-play stretches in the second and third quarters, as well as a two-point conversion attempt.
- Cook rarely plays as much as he did in this game and is likely to regress, but it might not be heading as much toward a two-back committee as it had before.
Table Notes
• Snaps include plays called back due to penalties, including offensive holding or defensive pass interference. The other three stats have these plays removed.
• Targets may differ from official NFL sources. The most likely discrepancy would be from a clear thrown-away pass, where the NFL may give the target to the nearest receiver, while this data will not.
• Carries are only on designed plays. Quarterback scrambles won’t count for the total number of carries in the game.
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