As Jalen Ramsey and the Dolphins continue to prepare for a parting of the ways, the seven-time Pro Bowler will skip Miami’s three-day mandatory minicamp, as Ian Rapoport of NFL.com reports. Minicamp begins on Tuesday, June 10.
Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel said last week (via ESPN’s Marcel Louis-Jacques) that “nothing has changed” regarding Ramsey. The team has insisted that the decision to seek a trade for the veteran cornerback is mutual, but Ramsey has been pushing for an exit, per Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald. He likely lost his $100k workout bonus by skipping OTAs and will incur another $105k in fines for skipping minicamp.
The veteran cornerback has generated “more interest…than people realize,” according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter (via Jackson), but his contract remains a sticking point. An acquiring team would have to pick up at least $2.02MM in 2025 (Ramsey’s salary and per game roster bonus) with $65.7MM of non-guaranteed money due over the following three years. However, the Dolphins already paid Ramsey’s $4MM roster bonus in March and would prefer to shed the remaining $20.235MM in guaranteed money on his deal, which includes an $18.98MM option bonus due on August 31, per OverTheCap.
If Ramsey’s new team doesn’t want to absorb all of Ramsey’s option bonus, the Dolphins could handle his contract in a manner similar to the Eagles-49ers Bryce Huff trade. Philadelphia declined Huff’s fully-guaranteed option bonus, which turned into a guaranteed salary for the same amount. The Eagles then restructured a portion of that salary into a signing bonus to absorb some of Huff’s remaining money and spread the dead cap charges across two years; the 49ers took on the rest of Huff’s 2025 salary.
A completed trade would leave $10.7MM in dead money on the Dolphins’ 2025 cap, along with any additional money they absorb in the deal. Another $18.4MM would hit the books in 2026, which could increase if Miami eats 2025 salary and converts it into a signing bonus as described above.
Despite interest from around the league, a trade is no guarantee. ESPN’s Dan Graziano believes that Ramsey is more likely to be released than traded. In that case, the Dolphins would likely exercise his option bonus early, resulting in $11.8MM in dead cap charges in 2025 and a whopping $40.4MM in 2026.
Miami is stuck in neutral. I’m betting a new GM, HC comes aboard next offseason. Pending how Tua plays, maybe a new QB as well.
I don’t know. They seem to like McDaniel. I personally think he is a clown but the FO and/or ownership likes him.
According to the NFLPA report, the Dolphins are again the most contented team in the league. I think ownership sticks with the status quo unless the team craters and finishes 3 games worse than the Jets. The fans don’t seem to care that the Dolphins haven’t won a playoff game in 25 years. They can watch the college teams in Florida as an alternative or simply enjoy sunning themselves on the beaches down there.
The college teams are at an all time low too. FSU is in its worst times since Bobby Bowden got the job. Florida is almost as terrible, and Miami considers finishing 9-3 or whatever it is a good season these days, which is embarrassing.
I agree college football in the state of Florida has seen better days but I still think those teams get their act together before the Dolphins become a serious contender to win the AFC East.
I don’t know about all that. I’m an FSU fan, and all I see is a light at the end of the tunnel that’s for a incoming train. Norvell can’t recruit and we still owe him $80 million in buyout money. Florida keeps repeating the same mistakes,and Miami can’t keep all the players fenced off in South Florida like they used to in their heyday, even with them throwing around money in this NIL era. They had a bad schedule last year and lost a couple of games that should have been four or five with the Heisman runner up on their team.
Seems like a lot of the players lost confidence in McDaniel. More than one player called the team soft and alluded to that it comes from up top.
He doesn’t want be in Miami and it seems like Miami is willing to let him go. Hopefully they can move him so both side can start moving on
Keep him and suspend him without pay for every practice, game, etc that he skips.
I can tell you’re a merciful guy at heart because you didn’t insist that the Dolphins strap Ramsey in a chair and force him to watch their Pet Detective movie 🙂
Nobody has to be forced to watch a classic.
If Miami is willing to eat some of Ramsey contract like the Article says…I wouldn’t mind my Cowboys going after him…gotta keep the useless Diggs just for this year then they can Cut him after June 1st next year and save 12 mill…
Lock up Ramsey with the Diggs money …
And Please sign Parsons soo we can n get another 10 mill of cap space…every little bit helps when u need players for depth…
Ramsey isn’t going to play for $12 million.