The Dolphins made two moves at wide receiver on Friday when they traded Mike Wallace to the Vikings for a fifth-round pick and acquired Kenny Stills in a deal with the Saints that cost them linebacker Dannell Ellerbe and a third-round pick.
It doesn’t take much to connect the dots and say that Miami is looking for Stills to replace the production that Wallace brought to the lineup, which included 10 touchdowns last season, as well as provide the deep threat that the Dolphins thought they were getting when they signed Wallace before the 2013 season. Stills doesn’t think of the reasons for his arrival in Miami that way, however.
“I don’t think I was brought in to replace anybody,” Stills said, via the Miami Herald. “I’m just here to do whatever I can to help the team win. Mike’s a great player. I’ve looked up to the things he’s done. I’m just here to help the team win any way that I can.”
Stills has been an effective deep threat in two NFL seasons and there’s plenty of room to be more than that with his 23rd birthday still a month away. The Dolphins are betting that he will while playing a leading role in a revamped receiving corps that will be crucial to their hopes in 2015.
