The Dolphins took care of some business ahead of Friday’s start to rookie minicamp.
They announced that they have signed seven of their eight draft picks. That group includes first-round pick Kenneth Grant.
Grant was the 13th overall pick after starring at Michigan over the last couple of seasons. The defensive tackle’s four-year deal is worth just over $21.95 million and the team holds an option for a fifth season.
The Dolphins also signed fifth-round defensive tackle Jordan Phillips, fifth-round cornerback Jason Marshall Jr., fifth-round safety Dante Trader Jr., sixth-round running back Ollie Gordon II, seventh-round quarterback Quinn Ewers, and seventh-round defensive tackle Zeek Biggers.
Second-round guard Jonah Savaiinaea is the only unsigned pick.
Quinn Ewers is now in the fold.
Per Mike Garafolo of NFL Media, Ewers has agreed to terms on his four-year rookie contract with the Dolphins ahead of the club’s rookie minicamp this weekend.
Ewers, 22, was the final quarterback selected in this year’s draft at No. 231 overall in the seventh round.
After spending his first collegiate season at Ohio State, Ewers transferred to Texas for the final three years of his collegiate career. He was a second-team All-Big 12 selection in 2023 and a second-team All-SEC selection in 2024.
He now joins a quarterbacks room that includes Tua Tagovailoa and Zach Wilson.
The Dolphins cleared four spots on their 90-man roster Thursday.
They announced that they have released long snapper Blake Ferguson and waived three others. Cornerback Ryan Cooper Jr., defensive tackle Neil Farrell, and offensive lineman Chasen Hines are also out in Miami.
Ferguson played in 72 regular-season games and two playoff contests for the Dolphins over the last five seasons. He had eight special teams tackles a fumble recovery in that action.
Farrell has played in 19 games for the Raiders, Chiefs, and Dolphins. He had two tackles in seven games for Miami last season.
Neither Cooper nor Hines appeared in a game for the Dolphins.
Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill made his second visit to the operating room of the offseason.
Hill had wrist surgery in February to repair an injury that he played through during the 2024 season and he posted pictures, via David Furones of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, from a surgical bed to social media on Tuesday. Hill captioned one of the Snapchat photos “surgery #2" and another showed him with his wrist bandaged along with the caption “mission successful.”
Marcel-Louis Jacques of ESPN.com reports that Hill had screws removed from his wrist in a procedure that was part of his initial treatment plan.
Word at the time of the initial surgery was that Hill would be ready to go for training camp and there’s no sign that anything has changed on that front.
When receiver Tyreek Hill arrived in Miami three years ago, he made some over the top claims about quarterback Tua Tagovailoa. Hill claimed, for instance, that Tua is the most accurate quarterback in all of football.
Recently, Hill was asked to list his top five quarterbacks in the NFL. Tua didn’t get a mention.
The top four are easy, for anyone — Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Joe Burrow. The fifth is open for debate. Hill went with Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield over Tua.
Does it mean anything? Well, how can it not? He has gone from being fully committed to hyping his quarterback to not making the obvious and predictable claim that the guy who throws him the football is among the best throwers of footballs.
It comes at a time when an uneasy vibe lingers between Hill and the Dolphins. After the 2024 regular-season finale, Hill said he wanted to leave Miami. On the Friday of Super Bowl week, he launched an impromptu toothpaste-back-in-the-tube tour on radio row.
Trade talks haven’t happened, as far as anyone knows. There was chatter that, when Cowboys owner Jerry Jones boasted about two “substantive trades,” Tyreek was one of the targets. (They acquired George Pickens instead.)
The window opens on June 2, if there’s a trade to be done. That would shift the bulk of the cap charge into 2026. And it would send his $25.85 million in fully-guaranteed pay to a new team.
It’s worth paying attention to the situation. Miami’s interest in trading cornerback Jalen Ramsey emerged out of nowhere last month. It could happen with Hill, too.
Of course, someone would have to want to trade for him. G.M. Chris Grier has said he wouldn’t hang up the phone if someone offered two first-round draft picks. The question is whether the Dolphins would bite on something less than that.
