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Marcel Louis-JacquesJul 27, 2025, 11:14 AM ET
- Marcel Louis-Jacques joined ESPN successful 2019 arsenic a bushed newsman covering the Buffalo Bills, earlier switching to the Miami Dolphins successful 2021. The erstwhile Carolina Panthers bushed writer for the Charlotte Observer won the APSE grant for breaking quality and the South Carolina Press Association grant for endeavor penning successful 2018.
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- The Miami Dolphins person agreed to a reworked declaration with information Minkah Fitzpatrick, which adds a $16.435 cardinal signing bonus, a root told Adam Schefter connected Sunday.
The statement besides saves the Dolphins $11 cardinal against this year's wage cap, a root told Schefter.
The Dolphins traded for Fitzpatrick past period successful a woody that sent cornerback Jalen Ramsey and choky extremity Jonnu Smith to the Pittsburgh Steelers. He participated successful each 4 of the Dolphins' grooming campy practices but precocious hired cause Drew Rosenhaus to assistance negociate a caller contract.
Fitzpatrick signed a four-year, $73.6 cardinal hold with the Steelers successful 2022, which made him the league's highest-paid safety. Fitzpatrick, 28, inactive hopes to motion an hold with Miami successful the adjacent future.
"We are comfy with this committedness to Minkah arsenic we proceed to enactment with the Dolphins connected a multiyear extension," Rosenhaus told Schefter connected Sunday.
The Dolphins drafted Fitzpatrick successful 2018 with the 11th prime but traded him to the Steelers a twelvemonth aboriginal due to the fact that of a quality with then-coach Brian Flores implicit his presumption and relation connected the team. During his six seasons successful Pittsburgh, helium was named to 5 Pro Bowls and 3 All-Pro teams.
He joins a Dolphins secondary that replaces 4 of its 5 starters from a play ago, and helium has made an content aboriginal on. He recorded the team's archetypal interception of grooming campy during Saturday's signifier -- an diversion leaping prime connected a walk by backmost Zach Wilson.
"You get ace pumped erstwhile you're like, 'Yes, that's what I was hoping for.' That's my archetypal impression," manager Mike McDaniel said. "He's cool, but he's benignant of mid vigor successful a gathering and past ticker him enactment connected a azygous and measurement connected the grass, and you spot a antithetic vigor and command. Just you tin archer that's his ineffable place, connected the shot field."
