Supply – Reworked deal provides $16.435M bonus to Fitzpatrick’s deal

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — The Miami Dolphins have agreed to a reworked contract with security Minkah Fitzpatrick, which provides a $16.435 million signing bonus, a supply instructed Adam Schefter on Sunday.

The settlement additionally saves the Dolphins $11 million towards this 12 months’s wage cap, a supply instructed Schefter.

The Dolphins traded for Fitzpatrick final month in a deal that despatched cornerback Jalen Ramsey and tight finish Jonnu Smith to the Pittsburgh Steelers. He participated in all 4 of the Dolphins’ coaching camp practices however not too long ago employed agent Drew Rosenhaus to assist negotiate a brand new contract.

Fitzpatrick signed a four-year, $73.6 million extension with the Steelers in 2022, which made him the league’s highest-paid security. Fitzpatrick, 28, nonetheless hopes to signal an extension with Miami within the close to future.

“We’re comfy with this dedication to Minkah as we proceed to work with the Dolphins on a multiyear extension,” Rosenhaus instructed Schefter on Sunday.

The Dolphins drafted Fitzpatrick in 2018 with the eleventh decide however traded him to the Steelers a 12 months later due to a dispute with then-coach Brian Flores over his place and function on the workforce. Throughout his six seasons in Pittsburgh, he was named to 5 Professional Bowls and three All-Professional groups.

He joins a Dolphins secondary that replaces 4 of its 5 starters from a season in the past, and he has made an impression early on. He recorded the workforce’s first interception of coaching camp throughout Saturday’s observe — an athletic leaping decide on a go by quarterback Zach Wilson.

“You get tremendous pumped once you’re like, ‘Sure, that is what I hoped for.’ That is my preliminary impression,” coach Mike McDaniel mentioned. “He is cool, however he is type of mid vitality in a constructing after which watch him placed on a uniform and step on the grass, and also you see a distinct vitality and command. Simply you may inform that is his sacred place, on the soccer area.”