{"id":875218,"date":"2026-08-31T16:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/875218\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T16:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:54:17","slug":"dolphins-initial-53-man-roster-is-youngest-in-the-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/875218\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins&#8217; initial 53-man roster is youngest in the league"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dolphins head coach Jeff Hafley said last week that the team\u2019s success for the 2026 season won\u2019t be measured by their place in the standings because \u201cthis year\u2019s so much about developing who we are <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/jeff-hafley-success-wont-be-measured-in-ws-ls-this-year-its-about-development\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">as a football team<\/a>\u201d as they move into the future. <\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s initial 53-man roster reflects that focus. As Joe Schad of the Palm Beach Post points out, the Dolphins have <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/schadjoe\/status\/2094411699973472641\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the youngest roster<\/a> in the NFL after cutdown day on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Miami\u2019s average player is 25.3 years old and the Browns are the only other team in the league with an average age of under 26. Schad also notes that 47 percent of the players on the initial roster are between 22 and 24. <\/p>\n<p>All of that youth could make for some tough sledding for Hafley in his first season on the job, but the hope in Miami is that short-term pain results in a long-term foundation for success that can be measured more tangibly than what they\u2019re pitching this season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dolphins head coach Jeff Hafley said last week that the team\u2019s success for the 2026 season won\u2019t be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-875218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}