Danny Amendola is staying in the AFC East, but he’ll do so with a different team. The Patriots free agent has agreed to sign with the Dolphins, according to NFL Network’s Dan Hellie (on Twitter). Armando Salguero of The Miami Herald (on Twitter) has confirmed the news. It’s a two-year deal worth $12MM with $8.25MM guaranteed, according to Peter Schrager of NFL.com (on Twitter). Schrager notes that the deal includes incentives, but it’s not immediately clear if those incentives are factored into the $12MM figure.
Amendola was vocal about his desire to stay with the Patriots, but New England’s cap crunch has led him to sign elsewhere. He’ll now face his old friends twice per season and he might make the Pats regret the decision to let him leave.
Amendola accepted several pay cuts in order to stick on the Patriots’ roster in recent years, but the offers were too good this time around for the wide receiver to stay put. The veteran earned roughly $6MM over the last three years with the Patriots and he’ll earn more than that in guarantees alone with Miami.
After a down season in 2016, Amendola racked up 61 receptions, 659 yards, and two touchdowns during the 2017 regular season before stepping up with a 26/348/2 line in the postseason. Amendola has never topped 700 yards receiving in a single season, but he is a strong weapon in today’s quick passing game.
The Dolphins jumped at the chance to land Amendola after parting ways with Jarvis Landry this offseason. They used the franchise tag on Landry, an excellent slot receiver, to keep him with a one-year, ~$16MM placeholder before shipping him to the Browns. Amendola will step into Landry’s role and while he might not offer the same production, he comes at a much better value.
This has proven to be a seller’s market for this year’s top free agent wideouts. Already, Allen Robinson, Sammy Watkins, and Paul Richardson have landed lucrative multi-year deals. Amendola joins that group with a solid pay day of his own.
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Sweet! Should be nice to see him play for someone other than New England
Like the Rams ?
Lol
Ugh…what the heck are they doing. First Wilson and now Amendola. I can’t imagine him coming cheap. Pissing cap space away on luxury receivers. I guess they are just going to completely abandon TE sets
The Wilson signing is absolutely brutal. Now these two WR combined will make what a more productive player in Landry will earn by his self.
Hope he brings his Patsies playbook to Miami, since that is what Bellicheat asks for when players join his team.
Got any proof?
And other teams don’t?
A hater speaks….and says?? Absolutely nothing…
Your jealousy is showing. You might want to pull your pants up…
My Pats are falling apart!!! Solder Lewis Burkhead and Butler are next to leave. Tommy boy can’t be to happy losing one of his boys. But I don’t blame DA. He took pay cuts the last couple years and the Pats should have shown him some love. Very disappointing
How soon we forget Julian E.
Thought for sure he’d stay with NE
So the Dolphins didn’t want to pay Landry, but the money he was asking for went to two other receivers?
2 that combined aren’t as good Landry imo
Not sure the Dolphins know what they’re doing.