{"id":184400,"date":"2026-03-09T17:07:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/184400\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T17:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:07:20","slug":"nfl-free-agents-2026-miami-dolphins-malik-willis-agree-to-terms-as-legal-tampering-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/184400\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Free Agents 2026: Miami Dolphins, Malik Willis agree to terms as \u2018legal tampering\u2019 begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Miami Dolphins are signing free agent quarterback Malik Willis, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapSheet\/status\/2031049459333759337\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to NFL Network\u2019s Ian Rapoport<\/a>. The contract is expected to be a three-year, $67.5 million contract with $45 million fully guaranteed. The news of the deal comes shortly after the league opened the 2026 free agency negotiating period &#8211; colloquially known as the \u201clegal tampering\u201d period &#8211; ahead of Wednesday\u2019s new league year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 2022 third-round pick of the Tennessee Titans, Willis spent the last two seasons with the Green Bay Packers. He played in 11 games, starting three times, with Green Bay, throwing for 972 yards with six touchdowns and no interceptions. He also had 42 rushing attempts for 161 yards and three touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">New Dolphins head coach Jeff Hafley and new general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan were both previously with Green Bay and are familiar with Willis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Miami informed 2020 fifth-overall pick, quarterback Tua Tagovailoa they will be releasing him when the new league year starts at 4 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">What do you think of Miami\u2019s addition of Willis? Head to the comments to let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Dolphins are signing free agent quarterback Malik Willis, according to NFL Network\u2019s Ian Rapoport. The contract&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,73927,2797,125,124,73928,86773],"class_list":["post-184400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-dolphins-free-agency","tag-miami-dolphins-news","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-nfl-free-agency","tag-nfl-free-agency-rumors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}