{"id":45196,"date":"2025-05-12T22:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T22:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/45196\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T22:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T22:09:09","slug":"dolphins-sign-former-falcons-jets-cornerback-after-tryout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/45196\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins sign former Falcons, Jets cornerback after tryout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/miami-dolphins\/345\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Miami Dolphins;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Miami Dolphins<\/a> signed veteran cornerback Kendall Sheffield after he participated in the team&#8217;s rookie minicamp on a tryout basis over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Sheffield, who turns 29 later this month, began his career as an <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/atlanta-falcons\/323\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Atlanta Falcons;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Atlanta Falcons<\/a> fourth round pick in the 2019 NFL draft. He spent his first three seasons with Atlanta and made stops with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/houston-texans\/325\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Houston Texans;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Houston Texans<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/dallas-cowboys\/331\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Dallas Cowboys;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Dallas Cowboys<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/san-francisco-49ers\/359\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:San Francisco 49ers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">San Francisco 49ers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/tennessee-titans\/336\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tennessee Titans;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Tennessee Titans<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-york-jets\/352\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Jets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">New York Jets<\/a> in the last three years.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In his six NFL seasons, Sheffield has played in 49 games and started 20.<\/p>\n<p>The Dolphins are in need of veteran cornerback help after parting with Kendall Fuller earlier this offseason and announcing that they&#8217;re looking to trade Jalen Ramsey. After largely ignoring the position in free agency and the 2025 NFL draft, the team&#8217;s top options for now are Storm Duck, Cam Smith, Kader Kohou, and Artie Burns.<\/p>\n<p>Sheffield was one of 20 players who participated in the Dolphins&#8217; minicamp on a tryout, although he was the only veteran. As of Monday, Miami hadn&#8217;t signed any of the 19 rookies who had a tryout.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Dolphins Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/dolphinswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/dolphins\/2025\/05\/12\/kendall-sheffield-dolphins-tryout-falcons-jets-cornerback\/83588032007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Dolphins sign former Falcons, Jets CB Kendall Sheffield after tryout;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Dolphins sign former Falcons, Jets CB Kendall Sheffield after tryout<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Dolphins signed veteran cornerback Kendall Sheffield after he participated in the team&#8217;s rookie minicamp on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[9226,223,254,2554,3334,257,224,7,253,1815,9225,9224,15704,251,255,6,3243,252,7565,394,3235],"class_list":{"0":"post-45196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-artie-burns","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-atlanta-falcons","11":"tag-atlantafalcons","12":"tag-cornerback","13":"tag-dallas-cowboys","14":"tag-falcons","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-houston-texans","17":"tag-jalen-ramsey","18":"tag-kader-kohou","19":"tag-kendall-fuller","20":"tag-kendall-sheffield","21":"tag-miami-dolphins","22":"tag-new-york-jets","23":"tag-nfl","24":"tag-rookie-minicamp","25":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","26":"tag-storm-duck","27":"tag-tennessee-titans","28":"tag-the-dolphins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114497150197281353","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45196","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=45196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}