Former Miami Dolphins safety Jordan Poyer didn’t have the best time during his one season with the team. The one-time All-Pro recorded zero sacks, zero forced fumbles, and zero interceptions in 2024.
“Last year was an extremely tough year on so many levels,” Poyer said Wednesday morning on NFL Network’s Good Morning Football. “Our team wasn’t very good, I didn’t play as well as I wanted to play. It was just a really tough year transitioning from Buffalo to Miami — cultures being different, systems being different. It just didn’t work out the way anyone had hoped.”
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Poyer, 34, spent the prior seven seasons with the Buffalo Bills where he was an All-Pro in 2021 and a Pro Bowler in 2022. He was released by the Bills to save cap space following the 2023 season and signed with the Dolphins on a one-year, $2 million deal.
Late in the season, defensive coordinator Anthony Weaver praised Poyer for getting Dolphins players in the right positions and told reporters that the safety “has graduate level honors” when it comes to the cerebral part of the game. However, the team opted against re-signing Poyer this offseason and decided instead to add free agents Ifeatu Melifonwu and Ashtyn Davis, along with fifth-round draft pick Dante Trader Jr.
Earlier this year, Poyer’s wife wrote on social media that the Dolphins don’t have enough players who “take their jobs seriously” and implied that immaturity was “like a plague” for the team.
This article originally appeared on Dolphins Wire: Jordan Poyer says Dolphins simply ‘weren’t very good’ in 2024