Why Miami Is Right to Keep Achane

Miami Dolphins general manager John Eric Sullivan made it plain. De'Von Achane is not available for trade. Pound sand.

Rich agrees with the call. Achane is a home run hitter, maybe the best pure explosion player in South Florida. Sullivan's quote was diplomatic: things are trending in the right direction, there have been positive conversations, they will get where they need to be. The substance underneath was less diplomatic. He is staying.

Where Rich has questions is everywhere else the Dolphins have made moves this offseason. The two things that triggered the head scratch. First, Stephen Ross walking into a player-coach exit meeting three days after Black Monday, interrupting Darren Waller's conversation with Mike McDaniel to ask for a few minutes with the coach. That one was a little head scratching.

Second, trading Jaylen Waddle after signing Malik Willis. Why bring one guy in and ship another guy out when Tua Tagovailoa needs every weapon he can get?

The logic on keeping Achane is airtight in a way the Waddle move was not. This running back draft class does not have another Achane on the board. Jeremiyah Love is the obvious top-of-class talent at the position, but he is not falling to Miami, and the Dolphins are not using draft capital to climb for him. If you already own a weapon who can change the math of a game on any touch, you keep him.

Rich acknowledges he went a little high register in his criticism of the front office and walks it back. He likes what they've done on Achane. The rest of the offseason math is the part still not adding up.