{"id":854299,"date":"2026-04-05T01:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/854299\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T01:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:12:18","slug":"dolphins-landing-49ers-star-would-completely-change-the-future-for-malik-willis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/854299\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins landing 49ers star would completely change the future for Malik Willis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/miami-dolphins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Dolphins<\/a>&#8216; wide receiver room is almost tough to look at, as I&#8217;ve said a few times now. If there&#8217;s one thing Miami has to improve on, it&#8217;s adding a wide receiver or two for Malik Willis to throw the football to. Bringing in Willis just to have this wide receiver room doesn&#8217;t seem to make a whole lot of sense, but that&#8217;s seemingly where the Dolphins are going right now.<\/p>\n<p>If the Dolphins want to take a risk, there will be some options for them to go after, including Brandon Aiyuk. There have been times when the current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/san-francisco-49ers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a> wide receiver has been a very good player throughout his career. The issue, however, is that he seems to be a bit of a head case. The last thing the Dolphins want to deal with while implementing a new regime would be somebody who doesn&#8217;t want to be there. However, Moe Moton of Bleacher Report doesn&#8217;t believe that&#8217;s too big of an issue, linking the Dolphins to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Dolphins can&#8217;t roll out a receiver room of backups and rookies and expect Malik Willis to grow as a first-time full-time starter. He needs help in the passing game. Nearly three weeks ahead of the draft, Jalen Tolbert, Tutu Atwell and Malik Washington lead the Dolphins&#8217; receiver unit. None of them have caught 50 passes or eclipsed 610 receiving yards in a season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAiyuk would be the clear-cut No. 1 option in Miami&#8217;s aerial attack. Also working in his favor, he&#8217;s familiar with offensive coordinator Bobby Slowik, who was the 49ers&#8217; passing game specialist and coordinator from 2021 to 2022. In the latter year, Aiyuk recorded career highs in catches (78) and touchdown receptions (eight).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A receiver of his caliber would help. However, considering what we&#8217;ve seen out of the Dolphins for much of the past 20-plus years, I&#8217;d rather see this team make smart decisions and bring in guys who are going to fit the culture of what they&#8217;re trying to build.<\/p>\n<p>More NFL news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Dolphins&#8216; wide receiver room is almost tough to look at, as I&#8217;ve said a few times&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701961,"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-854299","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":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116349445913780796","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854299","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=854299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}