The Miami Dolphins and new defensive coordinator Anthony Weaver are getting again an enormous piece of the workforce’s protection, and it comes a lot before many anticipated.
Throughout his Monday morning press convention, head coach Mike McDaniel introduced that the workforce could be activating exterior linebacker Jaelan Phillips from the bodily unable-to-perform checklist later at the moment. A transfer that would change the panorama of the Nationwide Soccer League — or no less than, the AFC East. And I’d be mendacity if I stated I wasn’t over-the-moon ecstatic.
Phillips, 25, seemed like the most effective participant on the sphere at instances final season and was on tempo to interrupt profession highs in tackles, pressures, and sacks earlier than struggling an Achilles damage vs. the New York Jets on November twenty fourth. Eight months later, Phillips is able to get again on the sphere.
By three seasons, Phillips has been a dominant pressure on Miami’s protection, beginning 26 of 42 video games for the Dolphins, recording 146 tackles (24 tackles for loss), 52 quarterback pressures, 22 sacks, one pressured fumble, and an interception. His 8.5 sacks in 2021 had been essentially the most in franchise historical past by a rookie and a quantity he would have simply surpassed final season had he not suffered a non-contact damage again in November.
In a corresponding roster transfer, the Miami Dolphins have positioned linebackers Grayson Murphy and Cam Brown on the reserve/injured checklist. With Murphy and Brown out, the workforce signed free-agent linebackers David Anenih and Wyatt Ray.
Right here’s what the Miami Dolphins’ official web site needed to say about Anenih and Ray.
Anenih entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent with Tennessee on Might 13, 2022. He hung out with Atlanta in 2022 after spending coaching camp with the Titans and being a part of Tennessee and Pittsburgh’s practices squads. Anenih additionally spent coaching camp with Arizona in 2023.
Ray is a three-year veteran who has appeared in 23 profession video games with Tennessee (2020, 2022), Cincinnati (2021) and Denver (2022). He has recorded 18 tackles (8 solo), 2.0 sacks and one pressured fumble. He additionally hung out on apply squads with Houston (2019), N.Y. Jets (2019) and Jacksonville (2022).
What are your ideas on Jaelan Phillips’ return from the PUP Listing? Do you suppose he fully adjustments the best way Anthony Weaver’s protection will defend? How do you are feeling concerning the different roster strikes Miami made? Tell us within the feedback part under!
