Typically no one can outrun the Miami Dolphins' top playmakers but the Philadelphia Eagles' Devon Allen is the exception.
PHILADELPHIA - Speed kills in the NFL and that little truism explains how the Miami Dolphins have put one of the top six-game offense stretches in NFL history together so far this season.
Either way, Allen is part of the plan this week to help mimic the speed of the Miami offense in practice, something Pro Bowl cornerback Darius Slay explained after practice Thursday.Slay then nodded toward Allen across the locker room: “We got a world-class sprinter over here as well. He’s a great look for us for the defense.”Ed Kracz/SI Fan Nation Eagles Today
“Giving the defense a scout team look this week is going to be important for them to feel presence, especially on the deep routes,” Allen told SI.com’s Eagles Today. “A lot of things they do to get Tyreek open, just him going in motion, lining up in a lot of different spots and finding space so my job this week is to give a good look.”
“I’m never gonna badmount people,” he smiled, “but I do this for a living. Maybe in the offseason we can set up a superstars of sports and have some of the football guys do a 60-meter dash or a 100-meter dash.”“Those guys like Tyreek, De’Von and Mostert all ran college track and I ran against Tyreek when I was in high school," he said."I think he was like a freshman in college and I was a senior in high school and we ran the 200 together. That was the year he ran like 20.
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