MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — The Miami Dolphins have agreed to a reworked contract with security Minkah Fitzpatrick, which provides a $16.435 million signing bonus, a supply informed Adam Schefter on Sunday.
The settlement additionally saves the Dolphins $11 million in opposition to this 12 months’s wage cap, a supply informed Schefter.
The Dolphins traded for Fitzpatrick final month in a deal that despatched cornerback Jalen Ramsey and tight finish Jonnu Smith to the Pittsburgh Steelers. He participated in all 4 of the Dolphins’ coaching camp practices however just lately employed agent Drew Rosenhaus to assist negotiate a brand new contract.
Fitzpatrick signed a four-year, $73.6 million extension with the Steelers in 2022, which made him the league’s highest-paid security. Fitzpatrick, 28, nonetheless hopes to signal an extension with Miami within the close to future.
“We’re snug with this dedication to Minkah as we proceed to work with the Dolphins on a multiyear extension,” Rosenhaus informed Schefter on Sunday.
The Dolphins drafted Fitzpatrick in 2018 with the eleventh decide however traded him to the Steelers a 12 months later due to a dispute with then-coach Brian Flores over his place and position on the group. Throughout his six seasons in Pittsburgh, he was named to 5 Professional Bowls and three All-Professional groups.
He joins a Dolphins secondary that replaces 4 of its 5 starters from a season in the past, and he has made an impression early on. He recorded the group’s first interception of coaching camp throughout Saturday’s apply — an athletic leaping decide on a cross by quarterback Zach Wilson.
“You get tremendous pumped once you’re like, ‘Sure, that is what I hoped for.’ That is my preliminary impression,” coach Mike McDaniel mentioned. “He is cool, however he is type of mid power in a constructing after which watch him placed on a uniform and step on the grass, and also you see a distinct power and command. Simply you possibly can inform that is his sacred place, on the soccer area.”