Category: NFL

The Miami Dolphins agreed to terms with two more assistant coaches to join Jeff Hafley’s staff Friday night, and one of them is coming back to Miami after a short stint with the Dolphins four years ago. The team is bringing back former offensive line coach Matt Applebaum as assistant offensive line coach and bringing in Chuka Ndulue as assistant defensive line coach, according to a league source. Applebaum, 42, was with the Dolphins’ staff in 2022, former coach Mike McDaniel’s first season at the helm, but he was relieved of the duty after the lone year with the team. The connection with...

The Miami Dolphins, under new coach Jeff Hafley, continued to rapidly build the coaching staff through his first weekend on the job. After promoting Bobby Slowik from within as offensive coordinator on Saturday, Hafley is bringing in the first position coach on his staff. The Dolphins are hiring Tyke Tolbert as wide receivers coach, according to a league source. Tolbert is an experienced receivers coach, teaching the position in the NFL since 2003. He spent the past two seasons with the Tennessee Titans and has also had stints with the Chicago Bears, New York Giants, Denver Broncos, Buffalo...

In the end, it’s not the Miami Dolphins who land a Harbaugh, but former coach Mike McDaniel who lands with one. And we’ll now get to see the alternate universe where McDaniel coaches quarterback Justin Herbert, who was selected immediately behind the Dolphins’ pick of Tua Tagovailoa in the 2020 draft, before McDaniel arrived in Miami in 2022. McDaniel is reportedly expected to be hired by the Los Angeles Chargers as offensive coordinator, according to multiple national reports. The move unites McDaniel with Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh. Meanwhile, his brother, John Harbaugh, was one of the...

A South Florida native is now among the candidates for the Miami Dolphins’ vacant head coaching position. He’s also been leading the offense of a Dolphins rival in recent years. Buffalo Bills offensive coordinator Joe Brady, who was born in Pembroke Pines, has been requested for an interview, according to a league source Wednesday night. That brings Miami’s list of candidates they’ve reached out to up to 11, after the team requested to talk to former linebackers coach Anthony Campanile, now the Jacksonville Jaguars defensive coordinator, earlier Wednesday. Incidentally, Brady’s Bills...

The Miami Dolphins’ general manager search that started Monday is already down to four finalists as of Wednesday night. The Dolphins will have interim GM Champ Kelly, the Los Angeles Chargers’ Chad Alexander, the Green Bay Packers’ Jon-Eric Sullivan and San Francisco 49ers’ Josh Williams move on to in-person interviews this week. That eliminates four other candidates who were interviewed remotely early this week: the 49ers’ Tariq Ahmad and RJ Gillen, the Philadelphia Eagles Alec Halaby and Los Angeles Rams’ John McKay. Miami is clearly prioritizing a pair of qualities: executives coming...

The games of the final week of the regular season were not kind to the Miami Dolphins in terms of positioning for the first round of the NFL draft in April. Miami entered Sunday with the No. 11 pick, with a chance to move up, at most, to No. 8 with a loss to the New England Patriots and other results going its way. In the opening slate of NFL games Sunday, the Cincinnati Bengals lost to the Cleveland Browns and the New Orleans Saints lost to the Atlanta Falcons. That meant the Dolphins could no longer move ahead of the Bengals and Saints with a loss to the Patriots. The highest Miami could...

Here’s the news: Miami Dolphins owner Steve Ross hired ESPN analyst and Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman weeks ago to consult with him in a search for a general manager, according to a team source. It is a genuine search, too, one that will cover the league and go wherever needed. Interim GM Champ Kelly will be interviewed like any other candidate. But that’s all he is at this point: Any other candidate. Coach Mike McDaniel? Ross hasn’t made the decision on his future — or at least he hasn’t shared it inside the team, the source said. But the Aikman hiring involves some murky issues...

MIAMI GARDENS — The Miami Dolphins saw good things from their young players in Sunday’s 20-17 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and it should give them reason to feel reasonably good about their future. Among Sunday’s 22 starters for the Dolphins, nine, almost half, were rookies, second- and third-year players.  Rookie quarterback Quinn Ewers, a seventh-round pick, threw two touchdown passes and no interceptions in his second start. Rookie defensive tackle Zeek Biggers, another seventh-round pick, blocked a field goal attempt. Rookie cornerback Jason Marshall Jr., a fifth-round pick,...

The Miami Dolphins announced a series of roster moves Saturday that ends the season for three players and brings up several other players from the practice squad for Sunday’s game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Dolphins placed wide receiver Dee Eskridge, cornerback Isaiah Johnson and defensive tackle Benito Jones on injured reserve. In addition to being out for Sunday’s game, none of the three will return for the finale at the New England Patriots. Johnson tore an ACL in a knee in Thursday’s practice, according to coach Mike McDaniel on Friday. Jones has a back injury, and Eskridge...