{"id":198481,"date":"2025-07-11T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/198481\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T10:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T10:00:09","slug":"espn-shares-dolphins-nfl-offseason-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/198481\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN shares Dolphins’ NFL offseason grade"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the 2025 NFL season now less than 60 days away, the Miami Dolphins<\/a>‘ offseason moves will soon be put to the test. The coaching staff and fan base will get some idea even a little bit before that when Dolphins training camp begins<\/a> on Saturday, July 26 from Miami Gardens.<\/p>\n

But, based on the information available today, just how good of a job did Miami do navigating the offseason? ESPN shared its grades for every NFL offseason<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Miami Dolphins’ offseason earned a B- grade. While not exceptional, it’s certainly not the worst in the league by any stretch. It’s also ahead of division rival New England<\/a>, who received a C+ offseason grade from ESPN.<\/p>\n

The Dolphins move that ESPN’s Seth Walder liked was Miami’s biggest offseason move<\/a>. Walder recently handed out an A letter grade for the Dolphins’ trade for safety Minkah Fitzpatrick and a 2027 pick swap with the Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a>. ESPN disliked the Dolphins’ signing of quarterback Zach Wilson.<\/p>\n

Ramsey backed the Dolphins into a corner with more than $20 million remaining in guaranteed 2025 money. And the Dolphins\u00a0weren’t even pretending\u00a0he was going to be on the team this season. I thought Miami would barely get any return in which the acquiring team paid the large bulk of Ramsey’s outstanding money. The Dolphins did better than I thought.<\/p>\n

Fitzpatrick might not be as elite as he was in 2022, but he’s a good safety on a favorable contract with two years left and no guaranteed money. And somehow the pick swap favored Miami, too. Considering the cards the Dolphins held, this was a win. Fitzpatrick also helps replace the loss of Jevon Holland, who\u00a0left in free agency. – Walder, ESPN<\/p>\n

Walder and ESPN are still concerned with the Dolphins’ cornerback situation. Miami is projected by ESPN to start Storm Duck\u2014who has just three career starts under his belt\u2014and rookie Jason Marshall Jr.<\/p>\n

But, Walder wrote that he was a fan of Miami’s free agency addition of guard James Daniels. Daniels inked a three-year, $24 million contract with the Dolphins and will slot into Miami’s offensive interior.<\/p>\n

Miami invested heavily into the trenches during the 2025 NFL draft, selecting Michigan defensive tackle Kenneth Grant in the first round and Arizona offensive guard Jonah Savaiinaea in the second.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s just they are good football players at the end of the day. We had talked about a lot of things that Mike (McDaniel) wanted to do and us working through it with the staff and the scouts of what we were looking for and they both happened because they\u2019re both big and they are both powerful guys.<\/p>\n

“So adding that to the o-line and d-line, we felt that was very important through this process. So at the end of the day we\u2019ll take anyone that we feel is a good player that could potentially start for us, but adding size and youth to those groups is very important,” Dolphins general manager Chris Grier said of the Dolphins’ first two selections in April.<\/p>\n

After an 8-9 finish in 2024, the Dolphins are hoping the combination of improved health for quarterback Tua Tagovailoa and its offseason moves morph Miami back into a postseason player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the 2025 NFL season now less than 60 days away, the Miami Dolphins‘ offseason moves will soon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2049],"tags":[247,265,1391,4537,4540,217,12,388,23184,7,23933,20842,379,1294,1815,469,5855,23932,3924,16236,7470,216,251,2087,23183,7583,248,267,88,6,35196,245,537,520,57,530,3376,2383,9,266,426,7877,7876,3452,4538,1434,8968,1733],"class_list":{"0":"post-198481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-dolphins","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-daniels","11":"tag-darren","12":"tag-darren-waller","13":"tag-dolphins","14":"tag-espn","15":"tag-espn-inc","16":"tag-fitzpatrick","17":"tag-football","18":"tag-holland","19":"tag-hub","20":"tag-inc","21":"tag-jalen","22":"tag-jalen-ramsey","23":"tag-james","24":"tag-james-daniels","25":"tag-jevon","26":"tag-jevon-holland","27":"tag-jonnu","28":"tag-jonnu-smith","29":"tag-miami","30":"tag-miami-dolphins","31":"tag-miamidolphins","32":"tag-minkah","33":"tag-minkah-fitzpatrick","34":"tag-national","35":"tag-national-sports","36":"tag-news","37":"tag-nfl","38":"tag-nfl-hub","39":"tag-overall","40":"tag-overall-positive","41":"tag-pittsburgh","42":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","43":"tag-positive","44":"tag-ramsey","45":"tag-smith","46":"tag-sports","47":"tag-sports-news","48":"tag-steelers","49":"tag-tagovailoa","50":"tag-tua","51":"tag-tua-tagovailoa","52":"tag-waller","53":"tag-wilson","54":"tag-zach","55":"tag-zach-wilson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}