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<\/a>Last week, Artie Burns<\/a> went down with a season-ending ACL tear. Today, head coach Mike McDaniel announced that fourth-year cornerback Kader Kohou<\/a> suffered the same injury in Saturday\u2019s practice, per ESPN\u2019s Marcel Louis-Jacques<\/a>. Kohou will undergo surgery and is expected to spend the entire 2025 season on injured reserve.<\/p>\nThe 26-year-old is Miami\u2019s only returning starter at cornerback after the team released Kendall Fuller<\/a> and traded Jalen Ramsey<\/a> this offseason. Kohou was expected to move outside in 2025 after playing the vast majority of his snaps in the slot in his first three seasons. That job will now be up for grabs among the several young corners on Miami\u2019s roster in what appears to be a wide-open competition.<\/p>\n Second-year UDFA Storm Duck<\/a> is the only rostered player with multiple starts at cornerback for the Dolphins. McDaniel has also made it clear that the team is looking for more out of 2023 second-rounder Cam Smith<\/a>, who hasn\u2019t logged a single start in his first two years with just 153 total defensive snaps. Third-year corner Ethan Bonner<\/a> has primarily played special teams in his seven career appearances and seems unlikely to seriously factor into the starting cornerback competition.<\/p>\n The Dolphins didn\u2019t invest premium resources into the position this offseason, but they still made a few veteran additions to their cornerback room. Jack Jones<\/a>, who started 17 games for the Raiders in 2024, will have a shot at earning a starting job on the boundary, especially after Kohou\u2019s injury. Longtime Steelers and Bengals nickel Mike Hilton<\/a>\u00a0should be the favorite to occupy the same role in Miami.<\/p>\n More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dolphins\u2019 cornerback situation keeps getting worse. The latest development will continue to differentiate this year\u2019s group from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2049],"tags":[217,7,9225,216,251,2087,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-248502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-dolphins","8":"tag-dolphins","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-kader-kohou","11":"tag-miami","12":"tag-miami-dolphins","13":"tag-miamidolphins","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114943293246967062","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248502","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=248502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}