{"id":39187,"date":"2025-05-10T14:07:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T14:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/39187\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T14:07:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T14:07:26","slug":"dolphins-release-long-snapper-blake-ferguson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/39187\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins release long snapper Blake Ferguson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miami Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel speaks as general manager Chris Grier listens during a post season news conference, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025, in Miami Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo\/Marta Lavandier) (Marta Lavandier,  Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">MIAMI GARDENS, Fla.  \u2013 The Miami Dolphins parted ways with long snapper Blake Ferguson on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Ferguson, 28, appeared in 74 games, including two playoff games during his five-year career with the Dolphins. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Miami selected Ferguson in the sixth round of the 2020 NFL Draft. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Ferguson played college ball for the Louisiana State University Tigers, where he was a member of the 2019 national championship team led by Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow and All-Pro wide receivers, Ja\u2019Marr Chase and Justin Jefferson. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The Dolphins also announced that they have waived cornerback Ryan Cooper Jr., defensive tackle Neil Farrell and offensive lineman Chasen Hines in a<a href=\"https:\/\/media.miamidolphins.com\/press_releases\/dolphins-make-roster-moves\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/media.miamidolphins.com\/press_releases\/dolphins-make-roster-moves\/\"> press release on Friday.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 nALdY copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the Author<img alt=\"Ryan  Mackey headshot\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/c8091367-49f4-407d-8bf1-39223e623283.png\" width=\"86\" height=\"86\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"\/><a class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__LinkBase-sc-1fnzlkn-9 eUojqd gMnWPT\" href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/team\/rmackey\/\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan  Mackey<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 gnunoy bOlrXa\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel speaks as general manager Chris Grier listens during a post season news&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2049],"tags":[217,7,216,251,13851,13852,2087,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-39187","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-miami","11":"tag-miami-dolphins","12":"tag-miami-gardens","13":"tag-miami-dade-county","14":"tag-miamidolphins","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114483930462383722","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39187","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=39187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}