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Locked On Dolphins - Daily Podcast On The Miami Dolphins

How SUSTAINABLE Is The Miami Dolphins' 2026 Approach To Free Agency Long-Term?

Locked On Dolphins - Daily Podcast On The Miami Dolphins

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Miami Dolphins overhaul their roster with a wave of veteran salary benefit deals, prioritizing competition and future flexibility over big-money free agents. With names like Tutu Atwell, Jamaree Salyer, and Josh Uche, the team's front office crafts a calculated approach to free agency that challenges last season's "most unlikable" roster and ignites a fresh hunger to earn starting roles. Kyle Crabbs breaks down Miami's tight cap management—highlighting the strategic impact of signing role players to low-risk, one-year contracts and the long-term vision of building around draft picks. Key topics include the Dolphins’ $8.5 million cap space, the challenge of replacing lost talent, and lessons from the Green Bay Packers’ free agency philosophy. Will this high-turnover model pay off, or are the Dolphins set to reinvent their lineup every offseason? Don’t miss this essential analysis for Miami fans eyeing a new era.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Let's just say there's a lot of moving parts right now for the Miami Dolphins and the rest of the NFL.

0:05.9

A look across the free agency landscape for some updates on where this team stands.

0:17.6

You are Locked on Dolphins, your daily Miami Dolphins podcast, part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day.

0:28.1

All right, Miami.

0:29.4

Welcome to another episode of Locked on Dolphins.

0:31.7

It is your team every day here on the Lockedon Network.

0:34.6

I'm your host, Kyle Crabs, a lifelong Miami Dolphins fan, host of Lockedon Dolphins, co-host of Lockedon NFL scouting, author of Touchdown, Miami on Substack NFL Staff, writer for A to Z Sports. We want to give a special welcome. Shout out to our everydayers, because it is your team every day. We don't just say it. We live it. Here on the Locked on Network special, thank you to each and every one of you will help to make the Lockedown Podcast Network

0:55.8

become the number one sports podcast network in the world.

0:59.7

Today on the show, kind of an all-encompassing roundup of everything that's going on as it pertains to free agency.

1:08.4

First wave of it has really settled down.

1:12.3

The Dolphids obviously had one notable signing as far as dollars involved with the

1:18.6

Malik Willis contract.

1:19.7

But the vast majority of these other contracts, as we continue to get more and more of the firm numbers that run in.

1:30.3

It's a very calculated approach.

1:32.5

So we're going to talk about where the team stands right now,

1:34.2

at Cap Space.

1:35.4

We're going to talk about how sustainable of a long-term model,

1:38.6

something like this would be with the extreme degree in which the dolphins are handing out veteran salary benefit contracts,

1:46.4

and we'll talk about that.

1:48.2

And we'll start with the terms of these contracts.

1:51.3

We had more that came in courtesy of Aaron Wilson this morning,

1:54.2

and Aaron Wilson's been covered in the league for a while.

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