Dolphins lose CB Burns to torn ACL, source says

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- Dolphins cornerback Artie Burns is expected to miss the full 2025 play aft tearing his ACL connected the team's archetypal time of grooming camp, a root told ESPN's Adam Schefter.

An MRI confirmed what the Dolphins' aesculapian unit feared Thursday, aft Burns suffered the wounded soon aft the commencement of Wednesday's practice. Burns went to the crushed aft tangling up with a teammate during presumption drills and slammed his helmet retired of frustration.

He was aboriginal seen leaving the tract connected crutches.

Burns signed a one-year woody with the Dolphins this offseason aft spending the past 3 seasons with the Seattle Seahawks. He has not been a full-time starter since 2017 but had the accidental to vie for a starting occupation successful Miami -- wherever an already-thin presumption is present adjacent much prevalent of an issue.

Dolphins manager Mike McDaniel said Wednesday that portion the squad is assured successful its existent radical of cornerbacks, it volition ever look to improve.

"If you person younker astatine a presumption that's processing and you're processing it and you person assurance successful it, you're going to person assurance successful it earlier the radical that haven't seen it do," helium said. "So, we're assured successful the group. That being said, not closing the doorway for anything. There's aggregate players we speech astir each and each day, but we're besides precise excited with immoderate guys that person a batch to beryllium and cognize that and are excited astir the opportunity."

One time aft Burns' injury, the Dolphins signed seasoned cornerback Cornell Armstrong -- who they primitively drafted successful the sixth circular of the 2018 draft. Armstrong was not connected an NFL roster past play and spent the 2023 play connected the Las Vegas Raiders signifier squad.