-- The big news when it comes to the defensive snaps was at cornerback, where veteran Justin Bethel supplanted Eli Apple as the outside cornerback opposite Xavien Howard in nickel packages. -- Bethel actually led all Dolphins players in defensive snaps with 51, while Apple played four snaps in the fourth quarter before he left the game to be evaluated for a concussion. -- The rest of the defensive snaps, for the most part, were what we would expect based on the first two games, except for David Long Jr. again playing the bigger role next to Jerome Baker at inside linebacker. -- Andrew Van Ginkel wound up playing 30 snaps on defense and he rotated at outside linebacker with Bradley Chubb and Jaelan Phillips before Phillips left in the second quarter with an oblique injury, and then AVG got most of the snaps there with Emmanuel Ogbah coming on in relief. -- Safety Brandon Jones, a starter the past two seasons before he went down with a torn ACL last October, got 16 snaps on defense for his heaviest work load of the season so far. -- Defensive back Elijah Campbell played 16 snaps on defense and another 21 on special teams in his first game after being inactive in the wins against the Chargers and Patriots.
AVG is MVP! The guy makes plays. Bethel had a couple really big plays too, was good to see him making those plays. He went up and popped the receiver, get so tired of DB's going up to receiver stopping and let the receiver make a move around them.
