Xavien Howard playing at elite level, other grades in ProFootballFocus metrics

The ProFootballFocus.com grades are in for the Miami Dolphins victory over New England and guess what? Yeah, they’re pretty good. Grading out highly this week are Jay Cutler, Ndamukong Suh, Kenyan Drake, Jarvis Landry and others. Grading out like he’s elite is cornerback Xavien Howard. The details

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Harris and Dolphins coaches disagree on how he's played. Sacks 'most important thing'

Talk to Dolphins coaches, and Charles Harris’ rookie year has been a success. “Yeah,” Adam Gase said recently, when asked if he was pleased with his first-round pick. “I’m not going to complain about what he’s been doing.” Talk to Harris and the story is much different. Has he played pretty

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Gase said he likes this roster and that Dolphins don't need a bunch of new players

Highlights from Dolphins coach Adam Gase’s news conference, a day after his team lost 35-17 to New England to fall to 4-7: • Does this team need a bunch of new players if Miami doesn’t play great the next five weeks? “No,” Gase said. “I like the guys we have on the roster right now. There’

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Fantasy alert: Stills held out of practice. Will he play Sunday?

The back injury that sent Kenny Stills to the locker room early Thursday also kept him out of practice on Friday. He was not present during the period open to the media. However, the injury is not considered serious and Stills is expected to play Sunday against the Buccaneers. But if he suffers a setback

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Miami Dolphins midseason report card: Hide it, burn it, don't bring it home

After they went to the playoffs in Adam Gase’s first year and successfully authored a “keep your own” free agency, and supposedly fixed the defense in the draft as well as free agency, the Miami Dolphins caused a lot of people to expect big things from the 2017 NFL season. Notable among this group

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2017 Miami Dolphins don't feel as good as '16 team at midway point

The Miami Dolphins are 4-4 at the halfway point of the 2017. And that’s exactly where they were last season at the halfway point. So why does this 4-4 feel so … so… unsatisfying compared to that bygone 4-4? Well, it must be said the 2016 Dolphins won three consecutive games to get to 4-4. They

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Dolphins vs. Ravens 2017 live results: Scores and highlights from ‘Thursday Night Football’

The Dolphins can continue their march toward a second straight playoff appearance with an upset win in Baltimore. Fortunately for Miami, its offense will remain in steady hands when the team travels to Baltimore for Thursday Night Football. Kickoff is scheduled for 8:25 p.m. ET and will be broadcast

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Three Dolphins players kneel for anthem after President Trump insists all stand

Week 3 of the NFL season featured a large number of NFL players taking knees and protesting/demonstrating during the national anthem before their respective games began. It was largely in response to vitriolic comments made by President Donald Trump last Friday.  As expected, Trump, who reportedly was

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Dolphins Wednesday injury update with Jay Ajayi yet again a cause for concern

Jay Ajayi evidently will not practice a ton this season. Ajayi got another day off Wednesday, watching his Dolphins teammates work from the sidelines. Ajayi, who has been dealing wiht a knee injury and didn’t play much late against the Jets, was in street clothes with a sleeve on his right leg. Jordan

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LOOK: Several Dolphins players warm up wearing 'I'm with Kap' shirts

When Ryan Tannehill tore his ACL in August, Miami Dolphins management responded by signing Jay Cutler — not Colin Kaepernick — to be their new starting quarterback. But that doesn’t mean players on the Dolphins don’t support Kaepernick, who still remains unsigned. Before their Week 3 game against

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Lawrence Timmons suspended indefinitely by Dolphins after going AWOL

Timmons went missing in Los Angeles before the team’s season opener. The Miami Dolphins have suspended Lawrence Timmons indefinitely after missing the team’s season opener against the Chargers. The Dolphins filed a missing persons report with police in Los Angeles this past weekend for Timmons, per

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How far will Dolphins go in 2017? Perhaps as far as their 2016 draft class takes them

Mike Tannenbaum is fond of saying that it takes three years to fairly judge a draft class. But life isn’t fair. The Dolphins simply can’t wait that long. They are in win-now mode. The Plan B signing of Jay Cutler is all the proof of that you need. But to make a deep playoff run, the Dolphins

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DeVante Parker Dolphins' biggest project player according to Bleacher Report

Every NFL team has that one player that is labeled as a project. The potential for greatness is there, but the player is still rough around the edges. There are all sorts of projects from position change projects to reclamation projects. According to Bleacher Report’s Mike Tanier, the Miami Dolphins

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Jay Cutler, Adam Gase reunion could mean good things for Dolphins

From the moment Dolphins coach Adam Gase aggressively defended quarterback Jay Cutler in May, it was clear that Gase had emerged from his one year of coaching Cutler with a willingness to do it again. Now, Gase will. “I guess I know a different guy than what everybody else portrays,” Gase said after

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