We’re lower than two weeks from the beginning of the 2025 NFL league yr, bringing with it the beginning of free company. When the clock strikes 4 p.m. Jap on March 12, gamers with expiring contracts can be allowed to signal with new groups. For the Miami Dolphins, there are 32 gamers scheduled to hit the free company market. Between now and March 12, the group has to determine what they will do with every of these gamers.
Will they permit the participant to hit the free company market? Will they re-sign him to a brand new contract? May they use their one franchise or transition tag on the participant? Every year, as we progress towards the beginning of free company, we ask you these questions on every Dolphins play who may turn out to be a free agent.
At present, we flip our consideration to a participant who joined the group late within the yr as Miami shuffled by a number of lengthy snappers. What ought to the Dolphins do with Jake McQuaide this offseason? You’ll be able to vote within the ballot beneath, and be at liberty to move to the feedback to debate your reasoning as nicely.
Final 5 free agent critiques:
Associated
Stroll, tag, re-sign – Braxton Berrios
Stroll, tag, re-sign – Da’Shawn Hand
Stroll, tag, re-sign – Tyler Huntley
Stroll, tag, re-sign – Duke Riley
Stroll, tag, re-sign – Liam Eichenberg
Biography
Jake McQuaide
Place: Lengthy snapper
Age (when season begins): 37
Draft: 2011 undrafted free agent signed by St. Louis Rams
Expertise: 14 years
Earlier Groups:
Professional Bowl/All-Professional: 2016 and 2017 Professional Bowl choice
Expiring Contract
1 yr, $1.2 million ($164k wage cap quantity)
2024 Overview
Vikings4 video games performed
Dolphins3 video games performed
McQuaide was initially signed by the Bears to their follow quad in October, then launched two weeks later. The Vikings then signed him to the follow squad in November, selling him to the lively roster late within the month earlier than waiving him in December. The Dolphins then signed him to their follow squad in mid-December, selling him to the lively roster the next day. Miami spent the second half of 2024 rotating lengthy snappers as they changed Blake Ferguson, who spent a lot of the yr on the reserve/sickness record. The Dolphins additionally used Matt Overton and Zach Triner on the place, elevating them thrice from the follow squad earlier than transferring on the following participant. McQuaide was promoted to the lively roster when broad receiver Grant DuBose was positioned on injured reserve, enjoying in three video games for the group on the finish of the yr.
2025 Outlook
McQuaide seems to be the veteran lengthy snapper groups look so as to add once they have an surprising want on the place. A two-time Professional Bowl choice, he can maintain the place stabilized when an damage or sickness out of the blue pop up on a roster. That might possible be his position once more in 2025, with a group trying so as to add him to the follow squad for a brief fill-in or the lively roster as an in-season alternative.
Stroll, Tag, Re-Signal?
Projected tag worth (Particular groups): $6.3 million (franchise); $5.7 million (transition) (by way of OvertheCap.com)
Stroll. McQuaide was signed to cowl the lengthy snapper place for the three video games on the finish of the season and into the playoffs if the Dolphins had made it. Heading into 2025, the Dolphins will both have Ferguson again or, if the sickness difficulty is extreme sufficient to warrant a roster transfer, they’ll look so as to add a youthful participant. McQauide is a strong veteran choice, however he doesn’t really feel like somebody Miami plans to deliver again.
