{"id":97273,"date":"2025-08-26T14:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/97273\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T14:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:04:07","slug":"source-veteran-cb-rasul-douglas-plans-to-sign-with-dolphins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/97273\/","title":{"rendered":"Source &#8211; Veteran CB Rasul Douglas plans to sign with Dolphins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran cornerback <a data-player-guid=\"a4c346e6-7f33-bc35-33be-4bfc3a353890\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3943270\/rasul-douglas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rasul Douglas<\/a> plans to sign with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"af33088b-1e19-d27d-dbc0-354fd7151703\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/mia\/miami-dolphins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Dolphins<\/a>, a source told ESPN&#8217;s Jeremy Fowler on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The addition of Douglas comes a day after the Dolphins released veteran cornerback <a data-player-guid=\"39c4b8e9-7aa2-f635-a533-4f5513805f6d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/2980383\/mike-hilton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Hilton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas has played for four different teams during his eight-year career, most recently spending the last season and a half with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"232afaf2-01ac-fcc2-8bd6-66550df1703a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/buf\/buffalo-bills\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Bills<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<p>The Bills acquired Douglas, 29, at the trade deadline in 2023, and he proceeded to quickly become a starter for the team at outside cornerback. He started 23 regular season games for Buffalo and formed a close relationship with fellow starter <a data-player-guid=\"540fc1a9-bf7d-f24d-ae8a-dcbd8d365dcd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4379778\/christian-benford\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Benford<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A third-round pick in 2017, Douglas played three seasons with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"d1a9b001-1df7-fbd7-ae4c-6ca7065286ec\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/phi\/philadelphia-eagles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Eagles<\/a>, including earning a Super Bowl title (Super Bowl LII).<\/p>\n<p>He then landed with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"647c27bf-ab86-550e-5b83-91c29e73e4a9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/car\/carolina-panthers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Panthers<\/a> for one season in 2020 before finding success with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"06cd3bcf-7a86-53d4-28e7-aa049dd36261\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/gb\/green-bay-packers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Green Bay Packers<\/a> from 2021 until he was traded to the Bills, recording 10 interceptions, including two pick-sixes, in 36 regular season games.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas had four interceptions, eight passes defended and two fumble recoveries in nine games with the Bills in 2023, but his flashy numbers went down in his second year, with zero interceptions, five passes defended and one forced fumble.<\/p>\n<p>He has 19 interceptions, and 79 passes defended in his NFL career.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN&#8217;s Alaina Getzenberg contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran cornerback Rasul Douglas plans to sign with the Miami Dolphins, a source told ESPN&#8217;s Jeremy Fowler on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-97273","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\/97273","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=97273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}