MIAMI GARDENS — Benardrick McKinney read the hand-off the minute the ball got to Tua Tagovailoa, sniffed out the seam the offensive line was trying to create between the left guard and left tackle and quickly filled it.
While Miami’s new inside linebacker didn’t make the tackle himself, the Myles Gaskin run during the team’s inside-run period of Wednesday’s practice — the Dolphins’ second in pads — was stuffed at the line of scrimmage.
“We can’t try to settle for one-on-one blocks,” said McKinney, who has averaged 88 tackles a game for the past six seasons. “We got to defeat blocks.