Top Free Agents Who Should Be Out of Dolphins Price Range
One of the top pending unrestricted free agents of 2025 will be hitting the open market and he absolutely massively could help the Miami Dolphins, but he’s likely going to be out of their price range.
And what applies to guard Trey Smith of the Kansas City Chiefs — on whom the team likely will not be putting the franchise or transition tag, per Nate Taylor of The Athletic — probably holds true for all, if not most, of the top options on the market at other positions.
The Dolphins find themselves currently under the cap, according to overthecap.com, based on the latest projections for what the NFL’s final number will be for 2025, but still slightly over factoring in the rookie class (which adds up to “effective cap space.”
While the Dolphins can and likely will create additional space with other moves beyond the three veterans released last Friday, it’s not like they’re going to be swimming in money and they also have 25 of their impending free agents, so a not-insignificant number of players will have to be signed.
That combination makes it extremely unlikely the Dolphins can offer big contracts to player like Smith. In his case, it also would be difficult to see Miami break the piggy bank after the team let fellow guard Robert Hunt leave as a free agent last offseason because he was too expensive.
