Dolphins re-sign Dickerson
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March 10, 2025
Dolphins re-sign Dickerson
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – The Miami Dolphins announced today that they have re-signed defensive tackle Matt Dickerson.
Dickerson appeared in four games in his first season with Miami in 2024 after being promoted from the practice squad. He is a six-year veteran who has appeared in 40 career games with Tennessee (2018-20), Atlanta (2022), Kansas City (2023) and Miami (2024), recording 42 tackles (17 solo). He also spent time on the practice squad with Arizona in 2021. Dickerson entered the NFL as an undrafted college free agent with Tennessee in 2018. He played collegiately at UCLA, where he appeared in 45 games and recorded 93 tackles (48 solo), 1.5 sacks and four passes defensed in four seasons with the Bruins (2014-17).
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| Matt Dickerson |
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UCLA ‘18 |
San Mateo, Calif. |
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Dolphins place right-of-first-refusal tender on Kohou
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March 8, 2025
Dolphins place right-of-first-refusal tender on Kohou
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – The Miami Dolphins announced today that they have placed the right-of-first-refusal tender on cornerback Kader Kohou.
Kohou is entering his fourth NFL season. He has appeared in 47 career games with 38 starts in three seasons with Miami (2022-24), totaling 180 tackles (148 solo), three interceptions, 28 passes defensed, 1.0 sack, two forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries. Kohou entered the league as an undrafted college free agent with Miami in 2022. He played collegiately at East Texas A&M University (formerly known as Texas A&M University–Commerce) from 2017-21, where he appeared in 44 games and totaled 113 tackles (87 solo), five interceptions, 37 passes defensed, four forced fumbles and three fumble recoveries.
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| Kader Kohou |
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ETAMU ’22 |
Abidjan, Ivory Coast |
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Dolphins tender two exclusive rights free agents
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March 5, 2025
Dolphins tender two exclusive rights free agents
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – The Miami Dolphins announced today that they have tendered the following exclusive rights free agents: linebacker Cameron Goode and tackle Kion Smith.
Goode has appeared in 20 games in the past two seasons with Miami (2023-24), recording three tackles (one solo) and two quarterback hits and added four special teams tackles (two solo). He spent the 2022 season on Miami’s practice squad. Goode was a seventh-round selection (224th overall) by the Dolphins in the 2022 NFL Draft. He played collegiately at California (2017-21), where he appeared in 37 games and recorded 170 tackles (97 solo), 21.0 sacks, two interceptions, 12 passes defensed, two forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries in five seasons with the Golden Bears.
Smith appeared in nine games with Miami in 2023 after spending two seasons on the team’s practice squad (2021-22). He spent the 2024 season on injured reserve. Smith entered the NFL as an undrafted college free agent in 2021 with Atlanta, where he spent the offseason and training camp before signing with Miami. He was a three-year starter at Fayetteville State (2016-17, 2019), where he earned first-team All-CIAA honors in 2019.
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Miami Dolphins Awarded Cooper Jr. Off Waivers
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Feb. 24, 2025
Miami Dolphins Awarded Cooper Jr. Off Waivers
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – The Miami Dolphins announced they have been awarded cornerback Ryan Cooper Jr. off waivers from Seattle.
Cooper Jr. entered the NFL as an undrafted college free agent in 2024 with Baltimore, where he spent the season on the practice squad and appeared in one game. He was signed to a reserve/future contract with Seattle at the end of the 2024 season. Cooper Jr. finished his collegiate career at Oregon State (2022-23), where he appeared in 23 games and recorded 82 tackles (52 solo), 1.5 sacks, four interceptions and 22 passes defensed in two seasons with the Beavers. He was a two-year starter at the College of San Mateo in California prior to transferring to Oregon State.
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Miami Dolphins Make Roster Moves
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Feb. 14, 2025
Miami Dolphins Make Roster Moves
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – The Miami Dolphins announced today they have released cornerback Kendall Fuller, running back Raheem Mostert and tight end Durham Smythe.
Fuller started 11 games for the Dolphins after signing as an unrestricted free agent on March 18, 2024. He totaled 50 tackles (37 solo), seven passes defensed and one fumble recovery during the 2024 season. Fuller has played nine seasons in the NFL after being drafted by Washington in the third round (84th overall) of the 2016 NFL Draft from Virginia Tech. Fuller spent six total seasons with Washington (2016-17, 2020-23) and two with Kansas City (2018-19) where he won Super Bowl LIV during the 2019 season.
Mostert spent the previous three seasons with Miami (2022-24), appearing in 44 games with 30 starts while recording 475 carries for 2,181 rushing yards (4.6 avg.) and 23 rushing touchdowns. He added 75 catches for 538 receiving yards (7.2 avg.) and five touchdown receptions. In 2023, Mostert led the NFL with 18 rushing touchdowns and was named to the Pro Bowl for the first time in his career. He also set single-season franchise records for most total touchdowns in a season (21) and most rushing touchdowns in a season (18) in 2023 as part of the NFL’s No. 1 overall offense. Prior to signing with the Dolphins as an unrestricted free agent in 2022, Mostert played for five different franchises across seven seasons – Miami (2015), Baltimore (2015), Cleveland (2015), Chicago (2016) and San Francisco (2016-21). He originally entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent out of Purdue when he signed with Philadelphia on May 2, 2015.
Smythe was a fourth-round pick (123rd overall) by Miami in the 2018 NFL Draft and has played in 112 games with 74 starts over the past seven seasons (2018-24). Smythe totaled 132 receptions for 1,228 yards (9.3 avg.) and three receiving touchdowns, along with four carries for four rushing yards (1.0 avg.) and one rushing touchdown. He played collegiately at Notre Dame.
Miami Dolphins Announce Coaching Staff Additions
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Jan. 29, 2025
Miami Dolphins Announce Coaching Staff Additions
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – The Miami Dolphins have named Craig Aukerman special teams coordinator and Robert Prince wide receivers coach, the team announced Wednesday. Together they bring more than 60 years of coaching experience, including 35 years at the NFL level.
About Craig Aukerman
The 2025 season will mark Aukerman’s 26th year in coaching, 16th in the NFL and seventh as a coordinator. He joins the Dolphins after serving as a special teams assistant with the Los Angeles Rams in 2024, where he helped the Rams to a 10-7 record, the NFC West division title and advance to the Divisional Round of the playoffs.
Before that, Aukerman spent seven seasons with the Tennessee Titans (2017-2023), serving five years as special teams coordinator (2019-2023) and two as a special teams assistant (2017-18). He helped the Titans reach the postseason in four of those seasons, winning two AFC South division titles, advancing to the AFC Championship in 2019 and securing the No. 1 seed in the AFC in 2021.
During his time in Tennessee, Aukerman coached two Pro Bowl players in punter Brett Kern (2017-19) and long snapper Morgan Cox (2022). Kern led the NFL in both net punting average (44.6) and gross punting average (49.7) in 2017. His 44.6-yard net punting average ranked second in NFL history at the time. He also led the league with 52.7 percent of his punts (39 of 74) placed inside the 20 in 2018 and in 2019 led the NFL in punts inside the 20 (37). Kern led the league again in 2020 with 59.5 percent of his punts (22 of 37) inside the 20 and had the league’s third-best ratio of punts inside the 20 to touchbacks (18:1) in 2021.
Aukerman also helped kicker Nick Folk convert a league-leading 96.7 percent of his field goals in 2023, tied for the 13th-best single-season mark in NFL history. Meanwhile, punter Ryan Stonehouse posted back-to-back years with a league-leading gross punting average of 53.1 in 2022 and 2023. In 2021, Aukerman’s kickoff coverage unit ranked eighth in the NFL, allowing an average of 20.3 yards per return, while wide receiver Chester Rogers ranked fifth in the NFL with a 9.8-yard punt return average.
The Titans finished the 2019 season tied with New England for the most combined blocked kicks and punts with four, while ranking fourth in net punt average (43.1). Tennessee also had some of the least-penalized special teams units under Aukerman’s watch, ranking second with just nine penalties in 2018 and tying for sixth with 14 infractions in 2019.
Prior to his tenure with the Titans, Aukerman served as special teams coordinator for one season (2016) with the San Diego Chargers and three seasons (2013-15) as an assistant special teams coach. He also worked with the Jaguars (2011-12), first as a defensive assistant in 2011 and then as an assistant special teams coach in 2012. He first entered the NFL as a defensive assistant with Denver in 2010 after spending 10 years at the collegiate level at Kent State (2009), Miami (Ohio) (2005-08, 2001-02), Western Kentucky (2003-04) and University of Findlay (2000).
Aukerman was a two-time NAIA All-American and two-time NAIA National Champion at the University of Findlay, where he played wide receiver and defensive back from 1995-98. He was inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame in 2013.
About Robert Prince
Prince boasts an impressive resume with 39 years of coaching experience, including 20 years in the NFL and 14 coaching wide receivers at the professional level. Throughout that time, he has coached several Pro Bowl players, including CeeDee Lamb (2022-24), Kenny Golladay (2019), Golden Tate (2014) and Hall of Famer Calvin Johnson (2014-15), among others.
Prince spent the last three seasons as the wide receivers coach in Dallas (2022-24), where he helped Lamb reach the Pro Bowl each year. Lamb was among the top league receivers during his three seasons under Prince’s guidance, but his best performance came in 2023 when he led NFL in receptions (135), ranked second in receiving yards (1,749) and was third in receiving touchdowns (12).
Prince spent a season in Houston in the same capacity (2021) and seven years before that in Detroit (2014-20), where he worked with Johnson, Golladay and Tate. Golladay led the NFL in receiving touchdowns (11) and ranked seventh in receiving yards (1,190) in 2019. He became the first Lion with two 1,000-yard seasons in his first three years. Meanwhile in 2014, Johnson and Tate became the sixth duo in franchise history to surpass 1,000 receiving yards in the same season.
Prince’s NFL resume also includes stops in Seattle as wide receivers coach (2009), Jacksonville as assistant wide receivers coach (2007-08) and Atlanta as an assistant quarterbacks coach (2006) and offensive assistant (2004-05). He also worked as an intern with San Francisco (2002, 2000) and the Chargers (2001).
In addition to his various NFL stops, Prince has 17 years of coaching experience at the collegiate level, where he has served in various capacities, as well as two years working in the X-League in Japan. He played wide receiver at San Bernardino Valley College (1983-84) and Humboldt State (1985-86).
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Jonnu Smith Named to Pro Bowl Games Roster
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Jan. 27, 2025
Jonnu Smith Named to Pro Bowl Games Roster
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – Miami Dolphins tight end Jonnu Smith has been named to the AFC roster for the 2025 Pro Bowl Games, the NFL announced Monday.
The nod represents Smith’s first career Pro Bowl selection. Smith, who signed with Miami as a free agent prior to the season, turned in one of the best performances by a Dolphins tight end in franchise history in 2024. He appeared in all 17 games with six starts and recorded 88 receptions for 884 receiving yards and eight touchdowns, setting single-season franchise records at the tight end position in each category.
Smith finished the season as one of the NFL’s top tight ends, ranking fourth in catches and receiving yards, while tying for second in touchdowns. He also set career highs in receiving yards and receptions and matched his career best for receiving touchdowns in his first season with Miami.
Smith will replace Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce, who will not participate in preparation for Super Bowl LIX.
The 2025 Pro Bowl Games will take place in Orlando at Camping World Stadium, beginning with the Skills Challenge live on ESPN from 7-8:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 30. It continues on Sunday, Feb. 2, with cumulative scoring from Thursday’s skills contests building up to the highly anticipated flag football matchup from 3-6 p.m. on ESPN and ABC. For more information on the Pro Bowl Games, visit NFL.com/pro-bowl-games/event-info/.
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Robinson Named Finalist for AP Defensive Rookie of the Year
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Jan. 23, 2025
Robinson Named Finalist for AP Defensive Rookie of the Year
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – Miami Dolphins linebacker Chop Robinson has been named a finalist for the AP Defensive Rookie of the Year, the Associated Press and NFL announced Thursday.
Robinson, who was also named to the 2024 PFWA All-Rookie Team earlier this week, was one of the most impactful defensive rookies in 2024. He appeared in all 17 games with one start during his first NFL season, recording 26 tackles (16 solo), 6.0 sacks, eight tackles for loss, 14 quarterback hits and four passes defensed. His 6.0 sacks and 14 quarterback hits were both the second-most among NFL rookies in 2024. He also tied Marco Coleman (1992) for the fifth-most sacks among rookies in franchise history.
Robinson’s growth and development came into focus particularly in the second half of the season after logging his first-career sack in Week 9 against AFC East rival Buffalo. He recorded another sack in Miami’s Week 10 victory over the L.A. Rams on Monday Night Football and logged multi-sack games against New England in Week 12 and at Houston in Week 15. Robinson was also pivotal in Miami’s Week 16 win over San Francisco. He sacked quarterback Brock Purdy for a loss of seven yards on second-and-10 with less than a minute remaining in the game that helped cement Miami’s victory.
Robinson was selected by Miami in the first round (21st overall) of the 2024 NFL Draft out of Penn State, where he played two seasons (2022-23) and totaled 41 tackles (31 solo), 9.5 sacks, three passes defensed, three forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries. He transferred from Maryland, where he recorded 19 tackles (12 solo) and 2.0 sacks as a true freshman.
He is looking to become just the third player in Dolphins history to win AP Defensive Rookie of the Year. Defensive tackle Tim Bowens won it in 1994 and linebacker A.J. Duhe earned the accolade in 1977.
Winners will be announced at NFL Honors presented by Invisalign on Thursday, Feb. 6 at 9 p.m. ET at Saenger Theatre in New Orleans. The show will be broadcast on FOX and NFL Network and streamed on NFL+. Fans may visit www.nfl.com/honors for more information.
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