The Miami Dolphins are inevitably going to have to explore other avenues to add talent to their roster. The NFL Draft will be essential — and free agency figures to serve as a nice compliment to the roster foundation that the Dolphins have established over the course of the past 12 months. But with teams hoarding their valued free agents, Miami may need to audible their plans for building out the roster and look to flip assets in other, previously unexplored avenues.
Where might there be an opportunity? ESPN’s Jenna Laine is reporting that two veteran offensive linemen will be available for trade this offseason: Cincinnati’s Cordy Glenn and Carolina’s Trai Turner.
Glenn isn’t an overly exciting prospect in a trade scenario but if the Dolphins were willing to eat some of his bloated cap space for this upcoming season, he’s likely to be had for cheap. And he’d admittedly be an upgrade over Julien Davenport and J’Marcus Webb — so the Dolphins have that going for them as they look to enter the 2020 NFL Draft with more than a dozen draft selections at their disposal.
The more interesting option is Turner — a 26-year old veteran who has started at least 13 games in each of his six seasons for the Panthers. Turner will enter the 2020 season owed just north of $20M in cash over each of the next two seasons, including a cap hit just under $9M in 2020. Turner is a rock solid starting presence and figures to be a casualty of the Panthers’ ambitious rebuild of their own — they’re the team most likely to invoke the 2019 Dolphins game plan in their own efforts to position and build for the future.
Turner likely commands a top-100 selection — but with Miami’s vast draft resources over the next two seasons, they may want to call up the Panthers and figure out a deal.
