De'Von Achane

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• Week 2Sep 21, 2026

  De'Von Achane — Week 2: Twenty Carries, Fourteen by Halftime

  Achane carried 20 times for 74 yards with no touchdown, 14 for 62 before halftime and 6 for 12 after, and caught 3 of a team-high 6 targets for 19 yards. His four carries inside the twenty gained 12 yards, including a loss of one on second and two at the San Francisco 2 before a field goal, in a 35–13 loss to the 49ers.

• Week 1Sep 14, 2026

  De'Von Achane — Week 1: Eleven Carries, Thirty-Six Yards

  Achane carried eleven times for thirty-six yards with no touchdowns and three successful carries, and caught four of five targets for thirty yards, including a fourteen-yard third-and-five conversion on Miami's first drive. He had eight carries before halftime and three after, none in the fourth quarter, in a 27–13 loss to the Raiders.

• Camp · Aug 31, 2026Aug 31, 2026

  De'Von Achane Camp Update — August 31: The Backfield Settles Around Him

  De'Von Achane made the initial fifty-three-man roster Miami announced Sunday, in a backfield the team listed at four names. The churn all happened around him — a running back acquired and waived within three days, the quarterback room rebuilt twice — while Achane himself appears nowhere in the week's game coverage.

• Camp · Aug 23, 2026Aug 23, 2026

  De'Von Achane Camp Update — August 23: Four Catches in the Joint Practice

  De'Von Achane caught four passes from Malik Willis in Thursday's joint practice against the Giants — on an afternoon when checkdowns were most of what the offense could manage — then sat out Saturday's twenty-six to three loss with the rest of the starters. A quiet, healthy week for the player Miami's offense is built around.

• Camp · Aug 16, 2026Aug 17, 2026

  De'Von Achane Camp Update — August 16: Seven Carries and the Only Touchdown

  De'Von Achane took seven carries for thirty-nine yards Friday and scored Miami's only touchdown of the night, finishing the starters' fourteen-play opening march. The June bet was the role and the scheme; both showed up on the first drive.

• 2026 PreviewJun 13, 2026

  De'Von Achane 2026 Season Preview — RB5 at an RB7 price

  Achane finished as the RB5 with 18.1 half-PPR points per game across all 16 games, a season built on sustained availability and consistent volume rather than efficiency spikes or touchdown variance. At 86.3% availability from 2021–25, the durability foundation is real, and opportunity metrics are the kind that carry.

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  Show notes & transcript

  De'Von Achane finished as the number five running back in fantasy last season. He's the seventh back off the board this summer. That gap — RB5 production at an RB7 price — is the kind of thing our system is built to flag, and there isn't a single red pattern in the way. The Muffed 2026 preview.

  The season was a dual-threat clinic on a bad team. 238 carries at 5.7 a pop — elite efficiency — +67 catches, for 1838 yards from scrimmage. 18.1 points a game, RB5, on a seven-and-10 Dolphins offense that finished below water in EPA. And the efficiency is real, not a small-sample mirage: +242 rushing yards over expected, fifth among qualified backs, and he did it facing a stacked box on nearly a quarter of his runs. The signature: Week 10 against Buffalo, a 59-yard touchdown straight up the gut to ice the game, part of a 40-point fantasy day. Speed kills, and his floor was elite too — he cleared 16 points in 15 of 16 games.

  The arc is short and rising: three years in, this was the cleanest, highest version yet, and crucially it wasn't a one-off — he posted 15-three a game the year before. Back-to-back top-end seasons. No spike to fear.

  What repeats: the volume is his, the receiving role — 67 catches — is the stickiest insurance a back can carry, and the touchdown share, at 22 percent, sits clean below the fade line, so there's no luck to surrender. Nothing in the pattern library fires against him. That's the case in one sentence: a top-five finish, a top-five profile, no red flags, priced seventh.

  So why a lean and not a full CALL? Honesty about our own method: we have no licensed stickiness pattern for running-back production the way we do for receiver and tight-end targets — so "he'll repeat" is a strong inference, not a proven base rate. The situation, though, got clearer this spring, per the reports — in his favor. Miami paid him: a four-year extension in May, third-highest average at the position. The teardown around him is real — Tua was released, Malik Willis signed from Green Bay to start, and the new staff, Jeff Hafley with Bobby Slowik calling plays, is reportedly installing a run-first offense. Read it together: the quarterback question got worse, the role security and the scheme lean both got better. For a back whose price was dragged by "regime-change fog," the fog burned off onto his side of the field.

  The price: pick 14, RB7. Verdict: LEAN — underpriced. The production says top five, nothing says fade, the team just guaranteed him the money that says the role is his, and the new scheme points the offense at him. The counter, out loud: Willis is an open question at quarterback, and a speed-based back in a struggling offense is the profile most exposed to bad game scripts. But you're buying a top-five finisher at a discount the data can't justify. Take the edge.

  September watch: the offense's functionality under Willis — Achane's ceiling is tied to game scripts where Miami can stay on schedule; and the carry share, which at this efficiency is the whole ballgame. Your whole roster gets this treatment every week — that's the show.

• 2025 ReviewMay 11, 2026

  De'Von Achane 2025 Season in Review

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  De'Von Achane finished 2025 as the number 5 running back in total points per reception scoring AND the number 5 running back on a per-game basis — top-five by volume and rate, which almost never happens unless a guy is doing everything for his offense. That's exactly what Achane was for Miami. On a 7-and-10 team that missed the playoffs, with Tua Tagovailoa posting one of the lower adjusted net yards per attempt marks among qualified starters, Achane was the engine — a true bell-cow doing damage on the ground and catching 67 balls out of the backfield across 16 games. The Dolphins offense was below water in expected points added. Achane personally was a plus.

  Now let's dig into the numbers. Start with the workload: 238 carries, 85 targets, a 19 percent target share — a dual-threat usage profile almost no back in football matched. The efficiency is where it gets loud. Achane averaged 5.7 yards per carry, and his rushing yards over expected came in at plus 242 on the season — plus 1.0 per attempt, fifth among qualified runners. He did that while seeing a stacked box on 23 percent of his carries. Defenses knew he was coming. Couldn't stop him. He averaged 20.2 points per reception per game, and the consistency was genuinely elite for a running back — his floor across those 16 games was 12.8 points, and he cleared 16 points in 15 of 16 outings. The ceiling games — 40.5 against Buffalo in Week 10, 31.0 against the Chargers — were the cherries on top, but the story is the floor. This was not boom-or-bust. This was a steady, weekly 20-burger with upside.

  The defining image is that Week 10 win over Buffalo. Second and 7, Dolphins up 16 to 6, fourth quarter — Achane rips off a 59-yard touchdown clean through the middle of the defense to put the Bills away. That play captures the season: explosive, decisive, finishing drives for an offense that otherwise couldn't finish much. Eight rushing touchdowns, four more through the air, and a top-five fantasy finish from the only consistently positive thing his offense produced.