{"id":807951,"date":"2026-03-12T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/807951\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T09:45:00","slug":"dolphins-sign-zayne-anderson-away-from-packers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/807951\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins sign Zayne Anderson away from Packers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Green Bay Packers have made some special teams-centric moves this offseason, beyond just retaining their own players. This included the signing of receiver\/returner Skyy Moore and cornerback\/all-round contributor Benjamin St-Juste. The St-Juste move seemed odd, though, if the team was going to retain safety Zayne Anderson, who was a restricted free agent with a minimum tender number of $3.5 million this offseason. It\u2019s now been revealed that Anderson will not be coming back and has signed with the Miami Dolphins, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeGarafolo\/status\/2031844395352211626?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to NFL Network\u2019s Mike Garafolo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This makes sense on a couple of levels. First, Green Bay clearly has four safeties that they like in Xavier McKinney, Evan Williams, Javon Bullard and Kitan Oladapo. All are under contract for the next two seasons, so there\u2019s not much playing time opportunity for Anderson here, even though he was ahead of Oladapo on the defensive depth chart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Second, Miami\u2019s brain trust is booting up Packers 2.0, under the watch of head coach Jeff Hafley, formerly Anderson\u2019s coordinator in Green Bay, and general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan, who was the vice president of player personnel with the Packers until he got the big seat with the Dolphins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The St-Juste move frees Green Bay from needing to carry a fifth safety on the roster for special teams purposes, which should help the team\u2019s roster flexibility moving forward. St-Juste should take the place of Anderson opposite of Bo Melton as the team\u2019s gunner\/jammer on punt team and punt return in 2026, a premier position on special teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Before this news, there was the possibility that Anderson would return to the team, as it had been reported that the Packers turned down Anderson\u2019s restricted free agent tender option (again, which started at $3.5 million), but Green Bay has brought back several restricted free agent players this offseason at lower than $3.5 million figures, like running back Chris Brooks and tackle Darian Kinnard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Green Bay Packers have made some special teams-centric moves this offseason, beyond just retaining their own players.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[1227,7,41,345,9684,2702,2514,2513,6,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-807951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-green-bay","11":"tag-green-bay-packers","12":"tag-green-bay-packers-free-agency","13":"tag-green-bay-packers-news","14":"tag-greenbay","15":"tag-greenbaypackers","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116215566990480842","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807951","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=807951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}