Miami Dolphins will be a totally different team in three years
By Brian Miller
The Miami Dolphins are rebuilding and some believe they are tanking as well. One thing is for certain, the roster today will not look like this win three years.
When a new head coach enters the picture he brings new staff and a new mentality that he wants to install. When a new head coach takes over a team that is rebuilding, chances are he will have a chance to start from scratch and make it his own.
This is the case with Brian Flores who not only joins the team as a first time head coach but also will work under Chris Grier who is, in essence, running the franchise for the first time. We may not know all the changes that are ahead but it is safe to say we know that the future for most of the players on this roster will not be in South Florida.
If we look three years into the future it isn’t hard to know that the players on the roster right now will be gone when that third year either concludes or begins. In Buffalo only five players remain from the 2016 team after Sean McDermott took over as head coach. It is not hard to imagine Miami having five or maybe even less remaining with Flores.
The five players that one would expect to see still on the roster are hard to define with the Dolphins but if you ventured a guess, Minkah Fitzpatrick, Laremy Tunsil, Jerome Baker, and Mike Gesicki would be on top of that list.
Players like Davon Godchaux and Vincent Taylor could be around but that depends on how the defensive schemes are designed and well they fit. Given the fact their contracts will be up by the third year makes it impossible to know the extent of their future in Miami. Guys like Reshad Jones and T.J. McDonald will not be around once their contracts are digestible.
Offensively it is hard to imagine Albert Wilson, Jakeem Grant, and Kenny Still forming the WR unit. Of the three Grant could be the versatile receiver that hangs around and Wilson isn’t out of the question either. Stills is not likely to hang around by the end of year three.
Obviously there is no way of knowing who will replace them but many will come from the draft and the free agent pool. The Dolphins are hoping to get younger at every position and that means anyone over the age of 28 will not likely be in Miami when they turn 31.
For the Dolphins the first of those leaving will come at the end of this month and between March 1st and the start of free agency in mid-March.