Blake Ferguson said goodbye in southern Florida on Sunday after participating in 72 games in five seasons as a long canapers of Miami Dolphins. A choice of sixth round in 2020, it was Released Thursday as part of four list movements.
“Eternally grateful for my stay in the south of Florida”, ” Ferguson wrote on Instagram. “Excited for the next opportunity.”
Ferguson played five games last season before Miami placed it on the list of reserve diseases / non-football in October. It was the first time he had been missing a match during his five -year career.
Ferguson, who won a national championship in LSU, was one of the oldest dolphins to the oldest alongside compatriots 2020, Tua Tagovailoa and Austin Jackson, behind only the AS colleagues of the Jason Sanders special teams, a choice of seventh round 2018.
“Good luck, brother!” Sanders wrote on the publication of Ferguson’s social media.
Ferguson recorded eight plated and a escaped recovery while tracing the return to special teams.
“Great things to come,” added Justin Bethel, a special colleague who played with Ferguson in 2022 and 2023.
After three transactions in three days, Joe Cardona is now the first track of the role The only long vivaneau on the list. The former Patriot has played 160 games since his selection in the fifth round of the 2015 NFL recovery.
Miami signed Cardona on Friday and released the free agent Kneeland Hibbett on Saturday. A long alive in Walk-on in Alabama, Hibbett was a four-year start and a semi-finalist for the Mannel Award, presented each year at the best long snapper of the nation.
Dolphins restructure their special teams, this offseason, from Danny Crossman as a coordinator after five seasons. Craig Aukerman was signed as a coordinator of the special teams after occupying the same position with the Tennessee titans from 2018 to 2023.
Miami did not bring anyone to challenge Sanders as a botter of the team entering their eighth season, but it cannot be said for the bettor Jake Bailey. The Dolphins added Ryan Stonehouse, an All-Pro from second team of 2022 which established an NFL record for medium yards by booty of release in 2022 and equaled it in 2023. Stonehouse also knew Aukerman, after playing under him for two seasons in Tennessee.
