SAF T.J. McDonald — $1.9M in dead cap
This contract never made sense for the Dolphins — ever. Miami signed McDonald to a 1-year contract with the team in 2017. McDonald would be suspended for 8 games to start the season, but that didn’t stop Tannenbaum & company for locking McDonald in on a 4-year extension worth $24M without him ever playing a snap for the team.
McDonald would play two seasons in Miami between 2017 & 2018 (a total of 22 games) and logged 1,491 total snaps over that span. And here the Dolphins are, 11 months to the day after cutting McDonald, looking at losing nearly $2M in cap space for his services over that stretch.