The Dolphins currently are scheduled to have 11 picks in the 2026 draft after the trade of Jaylen Waddle to the Denver Broncos.<\/a><\/p>\nMAY 2026<\/p>\n
May 1 \u2014 Deadline for Clubs to exercise Fifth-Year Option for players selected in the first round of the 2023 Draft. The Dolphins did not have a first-round pick in 2023.<\/p>\n
May 1-4 or May 8-11 \u2014 Clubs may elect to hold their one three-day post-Draft rookie minicamp from Friday through Sunday or Saturday through Monday on one of the two weekends following the Draft. The Dolphins have gone with the second weekend after the draft the past four years, but that was under former head coach Mike McDaniel and it’s not known whether new head coach Jeff Hafley will prefer having it the weekend after the draft.<\/p>\n
May 11 \u2014 Rookie Football Development Programs begin<\/p>\n
May 13-17 \u2014 NFLPA Rookie Premiere, Los Angeles, California<\/p>\n
May 19-20 \u2014\u00a0Spring League Meeting, Orlando, Florida<\/p>\n
JUNE 2026<\/p>\n
June 1 \u2014\u00a0Deadline for prior club to send \u201cJune 1 Tender\u201d to its unsigned restricted free agents who received a qualifying offer for a right of first refusal only in order for such player to be subject to the CBA\u2019s \u201cJune 15 Tender\u201d provision.<\/p>\n
June 15 \u2014\u00a0Deadline for club to withdraw higher qualifying offer to restricted free agents and still retain exclusive negotiating rights by substituting lower \u201cJune 15 Tender\u201d of one-year contract at 110 percent of the player\u2019s prior-year Paragraph 5 Salary (with all other terms of his prior-year contract carried forward unchanged).<\/p>\n
Late June \u2014\u00a0Rookie Readiness Program to be held at individual clubs<\/p>\n
JULY 2026<\/p>\n
July 15 \u2014\u00a0At 4:00 p.m., New York time, deadline for any club that designated a Franchise Player to sign such player to a multiyear contract or extension. After this date, the player may sign only a one-year contract with his prior club for the 2026 season, and such contract cannot be extended until after the club\u2019s last regular season game.<\/p>\n
Mid-July \u2014\u00a0Clubs are permitted to open preseason training camp for rookies (defined as a player who has never signed an NFL player contract with a club in a prior league year) beginning seven days prior to the club\u2019s mandatory reporting date for veteran players.
— Clubs may require first-year players (defined as a player who signed a player contract with any NFL club in a prior league year, but who does not have a pension-credited season) to report on the designated reporting date for all rookies, or at any time thereafter, including, but not limited to, the designated reporting date for veteran quarterbacks and injured players, or the designated reporting date for all other veteran players.
— Veteran quarterbacks and \u201cinjured players\u201d (as defined in CBA Article 21, Section 6) may be required to report to the club\u2019s preseason training camp no earlier than five days immediately prior to the mandatory reporting date for all other veteran players, provided the club has already opened (or simultaneously opens) its official preseason training camp for all rookies.<\/p>\n
At 4:00 p.m. ET, on July 22 (or the first scheduled day of the first NFL training camp whichever is later) signing period ends for unrestricted free agents to whom a \u201cUFA Tender\u201d was made by prior club. After this date and until 4:00 p.m. ET, on the Tuesday following the 10th weekend of the regular season, prior club has exclusive negotiating rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first wave of free agency is done and so are the NFL owners meetings, but the NFL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2049],"tags":[217,7,216,251,2087,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-847961","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-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847961","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=847961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}