Sony Michel Gives Incredible Details About Personal Offseason Goals After Rookie Year

Patriots rookie running back Sony Michel was criticized at the beginning of the season, but he proved everyone wrong in the playoff run.

Sony Michel had 71 carries for 336 yards and six touchdowns in three postseason games. In his 13 regular season games, Michel carried the ball 209 times for 931 yards and six touchdowns.

He had a slow start after the injury that made him limited participant in training camp and preseason. We all remember how Michael Felger and Tony Masarotti of 98.5 “The Sports Hub” said that he “sucks” back in September. Well, Michel gets better with every game he plays in, and his rookie campaign turned into something awesome.

“I’m just going back to the basics and get better,” Michel said at a BJ’s in Franklin. “Just trying to work on some of my movements, speed. It’s everything. You always want to work on all aspects of your game.”

Michel ranked 205h of 27 qualified running backs in Pro Football Focus’ rating last season. he was 18th of 27 running backs in PFF’s breakaway percentage.

When asked if he would improve his pass-catching ability in the offseason, he said, “It all depends on how it plays out. If that’s what coach wants me to do, then I’m going to have to step up and do it. It’s all dependent on what they want my role to be. You can catch a ball off a gauntlet, off a little machine that shoots you the ball. You can always work on any aspect of the game.”

What are his plans for 2019? He promised to get back into shape.

“Once we get back rolling, gotta start from square one,” Michel said. “You can’t really approach it as a Super Bowl champion. You gotta go as somebody who hasn’t won nothing. It’s going to be a new year, a new start, just gotta treat it like that.”

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