DAVIE, Fla. — When it comes to taking advantage of Mike Wallace’s speed, the Miami Dolphins need to make strides.

Little progress has been evident in training camp, but quarterback Ryan Tannehill is confident he’ll hit Wallace on long passes more often this year.

“We built up that connection more in the offseason, and now I feel really good about it,” Tannehill said Monday. “Mike and I are more on the same page now than we ever have been in the past, not only on deep balls but in the overall game of football. No matter what the route or the play is, we’re able to talk with each other and be open.”

Wallace ranks among the fastest players in the NFL, but he was often only a decoy last season, his first with the Dolphins. They targeted him on 34 passes thrown more than 20 yards, and only six were completed — 18 percent.

When Wallace was open deep, Tannehill frequently underthrew him, and the result was an incompletion or interception. After the season, Wallace estimated he should have scored at least 15 more touchdowns.

Instead he scored five times and averaged 12.7 yards per catch, both career lows. Wallace said he was partly at fault and must pursue the ball more aggressively

He also acknowledged Tannehill needs better accuracy on long passes.

“Ryan’s getting better with the deep ball,” Wallace said. “It was a problem overall with everybody, not just me. But he’s doing a really good job and getting better at it every day.”

Most of Tannehill’s deep throws during training camp have fallen incomplete. But the sample pool is small because Wallace missed six days of practice with a sore hamstring.

Even when healthy, Wallace doesn’t go deep often in practice.

“I’m not about to run 20 deep balls back-to-back to try to get timing,” he said. “It’s not healthy for my leg just to keep running deep. So when we do get those reps, we’ve just got to make them count.”

Wallace will be the NFL’s highest-paid receiver this season at $15 million.