{"id":762101,"date":"2026-02-19T10:03:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/762101\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:03:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:03:34","slug":"dolphins-shopping-minkah-fitzpatrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/762101\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins Shopping Minkah Fitzpatrick"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dolphins safety Minkah Fitzpatrick<\/a> may be part of a mass offseason exodus of high-priced veterans in Miami. The Dolphins have discussed a Fitzpatrick trade with other teams, veteran insider Jordan Schultz<\/a> reports. It\u2019s unclear if they have made progress in those talks.<\/p>\n

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Fitzpatrick, a Dolphins first-round pick in 2018, is in his second stint with the franchise. His first run ended when the Dolphins traded<\/a> him to the Steelers in September 2019 for a package headlined by a 2020 first-rounder. The Dolphins wound up re-acquiring<\/a> Fitzpatrick in a swap involving another decorated defensive back, Jalen Ramsey<\/a>, and tight end Jonnu Smith<\/a> last June.<\/p>\n

Fitzpatrick did not add to his five Pro Bowl nods and three first-team All-Pro selections in his first season back in Miami. However, the 29-year-old still put together another productive season.<\/p>\n

Over 14 games (all starts), Fitzpatrick tallied 82 tackles, six passes defensed, two fumble recoveries, an interception and his first career sack. Logging a significant number of snaps in the slot, at free safety and in the box, Pro Football Focus ranked Fitzpatrick a superb fifth among 91 qualifying safeties.<\/p>\n

Despite his strong output, the floundering Dolphins were open to trading<\/a> Fitzpatrick before last season\u2019s Nov. 4 deadline. Nothing came together then, but with a new regime of general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan and head coach Jeff Hafley, the rebuilding Dolphins are making over their roster. Fitzpatrick could soon follow wide receivers Tyreek Hill<\/a> and Nick Westbrook-Ikhine<\/a>, outside linebacker Bradley Chubb<\/a> and guard James Daniels<\/a> out the door. The team also figures to give quarterback Tua Tagovailoa<\/a> his walking papers sometime soon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Dolphins were unable to trade the released group of Hill, Westbrook-Ikhine, Chubb and Daniels. Meanwhile, they\u2019ve hit nothing but roadblocks<\/a> in attempting to move Tagovailoa. Finding a taker for Fitzpatrick should be easier. He\u2019s due a non-guaranteed base salary of $15.6MM in 2026, the last year of his contract. The Dolphins would take on approximately $13MM in dead money with a pre-June 1 trade, but they\u2019d free up $5.83MM in cap space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dolphins safety Minkah Fitzpatrick may be part of a mass offseason exodus of high-priced veterans in Miami. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2049],"tags":[217,7,216,251,2087,7583,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-762101","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-miamidolphins","13":"tag-minkah-fitzpatrick","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116096730475573474","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762101","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=762101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}