The all-powerful dollar offers large clues to which backups on the offensive line rebuilt of dolphins have the inner track to crack the 2025 list Originally appeared on A in Z Sports.
Each NFL team chooses to manage their list of 53 men differently. For teams that covet positional flexibility, eight players can sometimes be considered “sufficient”. For the other teams, there are no too good offensive line player – and accordingly, some teams will keep up to 10 on the active list once the season at the start.
How Miami Dolphins Choose to go about this year’s group will be particularly interesting. This is a team that has been hampered by injuries in recent years on the offensive line. But it is also a unit which is now filled with new faces and younger talents. Will the hope of better durability allow Miami to light, especially with many flexible players in position?
Unless the Dolphins plan to keep 10, there is a difficult cup pending the end of the pre-season. And there are truly precious clues to what could tip the scales of this battle in the small characters of certain Miami contracts this offseason.
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The guaranteed money provides an index to the hierarchy of the offensive line of the Dolphins
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The dolphins projected from five at the front feel sure enough to lock up according to the investment. These five would be:
Tackle left: Patrick Paul
Left guard: Jonah Savaiaea
Center: Aaron Brewer
Right guard: James Daniels
Brotacle: Austin Jackson
This collection is made up of two draft choices in the second round in the past two years (Paul & Savaiaea), a free agent signature of $ 21 million over three years in Brewer (2024), a free agent of $ 24 million over three years in Daniels (2025), and a former first -round choice in Austin Jackson who played in the second year of an extension of $ 3 million.
Health wants is what the Miami Front will look like for week 1. This is what is behind this group that makes training battles and decisions to manage convincing alignments. The veteran Liam Eichenberg is back on an agreement of one year, him and the signatory of the free agent Larry Borom both obtained contracts entirely guaranteed worth 2.25 million dollars and 2.5 million dollars, respectfully.
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The other main contenders for a list place on the Miami offensive line include veteran Daniel Brunskill, Kion Smith and Andrew Meyer. Dolphins have no guaranteed money on one of these three respective contracts.
This opens the way to a picalating order for the dolphins with regard to the list and who does not do so. Of course, dolphins could, in theory, cut Liam Eichenberg or Larry Borom to keep one of the other names in their offensive room on them. But to do so at the expense of payment of a fully guaranteed salary which exceeds $ 2 million for one or the other is a pill that is difficult to swallow, you write a check for a player to go to this scenario. Miami pressed the ejection button for a free agent signature before the end of the training camp the same year before – although it happened in 2023 when the dolphins signed Ol Dan Feeney to a one -year contract, $ 3.25 million in the spring and exchanged it in Chicago at the end of August for a 6th round draft choice.
Miami choosing one of the unsuitable salary players on Borom or Eichenberg would probably need a similar scenario to play.
Assuming that a commercial market does not manifest itself for the dolphins, it gives Borom and Eichenberg an interior track and leaves Smith, Meyer and Brunskill to fight so many points. It could be as little as one or the least as the three – in which case everyone can go home happy at the end of the day of the Cup next month. But the number of options eligible for plated is quite thin, giving Kion Smith one step ahead of the competition for this eighth-Rôti.
Andrew Meyer is a center that this team was ready to continue the active list all the season last year to ensure that he stayed in his ranks. The additional dynamics of several years of cost control as a free -repeated free agent is only sweetening the pot for Meyer’s housing remains.
And that leaves the question of how much Daniel Brunskill will have to play that what Liam Eichenberg is able to encourage dolphins to eat a fully guaranteed salary of Eichenberg? Eichenberg is on the list physically unable to perform (PUP) to start the camp and Brunskill has acclimatized to Miami. I think Brunskill is a better player from the point of view of talents. But Brunskill has no money guaranteed from his agreement, separating elementary ways.
A tête-à-tête victory on Eichenberg is not Brunskill’s only path, of course. The team could bring together a lot of confidence in Borom throughout August, which also makes the idea of separating from Kion Smith more digestible. Or dolphins could simply keep 10 offensive line players. But since Miami is very likely to transport three quarters to the active list plus a rear, the figures are short and 10 is a heavy number.
If in doubt, follow the money. And the guarantees give you many tips on how the entire part will get rid of September.
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This story was initially reported by A in Z Sports On July 31, 2025, where he appeared for the first time.
