Dolphins center
Mike Pouncey is injured and may not return until late in the regular season, and the performances in training camp of Pouncey’s potential replacements have the team worried.
After a practice in which new center
Shelley Smith (who has never played center before) had two bad snaps to quarterback Ryan Tannehill, and in which backup center Sam Brenner was carted off with a leg injury, Dolphins offensive line coach John Benton acknowledged there are issues.
"Obviously, I'm concerned,"“Benton said, via Barry Jackson of the
Miami Herald. “We’ve got to find a way to be good at that position.”
Benton said he doesn’t know how well Smith is going to play at center but hopes to see a good preseason performance out of him.
“It’s unclear in the sense there’s a lot unclear until you get to that first game,” he said. “We’ll know a lot after that first preseason game. I’m optimistic. To say confident is probably a little stretch.”
To say the Dolphins will have a good offensive line this year is probably a stretch.
