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It feels like just yesterday that everyone was sitting around waiting for the Dolphins to make the kinds of maneuvers in free agency that gave anyone the impression that the roster was better than it could be claimed to be at the end of the 2020 season. But now, nearly one month after the opening of the league calendar year, the Dolphins are suddenly among the league leaders in transactions signed this offseason. The Miami Dolphins, according to Over The Cap, are tied for the fourth-biggest free agency crop of 2021 — and they’re also among the youngest crops of free agents, too.
Over The Cap has the Dolphins marked as the 9th youngest free agency class of 2021 as things currently stand, with an average age of 27.82 years of age.
That falls in line with the philosophy we’ve seen from the Dolphins, which is to attack young players even as the team looks to transition from a young rebuilding team to a viable contender. The experience of veterans can be useful — but Miami is betting on the youth of their roster growing together to experience the needed trials to become a winner together. The next step for the Dolphins will be a big one: returning to the postseason and securing a win along the way.
Miami owns one of the longest playoff win droughts in all of football — and they cannot consider the next chapter of their rebuild a success until that streak is broken. The Dolphins, interestingly enough, aren’t hoarding players who have been there and done that, however. Instead, they’re targeting talents whose best football may yet be ahead of them.