The Miami Dolphins cut 27 players off of their roster on Saturday’s cut-down day. With Miami serving waiver papers to one third of their preseason roster, several difficult decisions had to be made on who to bring along for the 2019 season. But for as difficult as some of those decisions may have been, the rest of the league had little issue with deciding what to do with Miami’s scraps.
The Dolphins saw zero of their cut players claimed overnight during the waiver process by any of the other 31 teams in the league — a heavy indictment of just how far this roster has to go in order to serve as a deep collection of talent.
Lesser talented teams (like the Dolphins) often pick through the table scraps of other teams in order to boost the bottom of their roster. We saw the Dolphins do that with their additions from the New England Patriots via waivers this weekend, for example. But to have zero of the 27 cut players from Saturday’s seismic shift go uncut?
That just about says it all for the Dolphins. Now, to be fair to Miami, general manager Chris Grier has done an admirable job shipping assets out via trade to pool draft picks and other young talent — so several of Miami’s “disposable” players were already off the roster. And in their place, the Dolphins targeted a lot of career underachievers, hoping Miami could unlock some hidden potential.
Those who showed promise largely made the roster. Those who didn’t were back into the free agent pool and hoping for a third (or fourth) chance to make a team.
