Jay Ajayi did not travel with the Miami Dolphins to Seattle in Week 1 as the coaching staff elected to bring Damien Williams and Kenyan Drake on the trip to backup Arian Foster. Any competitor would be unhappy about not traveling with his team and Ajayi is certainly no different.

The other backs that the Dolphins selected to travel with the team on Week 1 have played special teams, and Ajayi has not. The coaching staff likes the fact that Williams, Drake and Isaiah Pead have experience on special teams.

The Dolphins are headed to Foxborough, Massachusetts where they’ll be facing the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium and it is still unknown whether or not Ajay will be playing on Sunday.

When asked how Ajayi has performed this week Dolphins head coach Adam Gase said, “I think he’s done really good. He’s been really engaged in meetings. I know he’s done a great job. … [Special teams coach Darren] Rizzi brought it up to me that he’s done a great job in special teams meetings and he’s done a very good job at practice.”

While he lauded Ajayi for his practice habits, Gase stopped short of saying that Ajayi will play on Sunday. “We haven’t made any final decisions yet right now,” Gase said. “So we’ll have a better idea as far as what we’re going to do Saturday night.”

Ajayi repeatedly expressed his desire to help the team in any way he can against the Patriots, but whether or not he plays in Week 2 is a toss-up at best.