The Miami Dolphins have been busy rebuilding the front office, coaching staff and roster ahead of the 2026 NFL season, however one former player has more than a million reasons to look back at the 2025 season one more time.<\/p>\n
On Monday, the National Football League announced the top-25 performance based payouts \u2014 money given to players who played a large amount of snaps for their respective teams while earning a low salary that year \u2014 and cornerback Jack Jones was on the list.<\/p>\n
Jones \u2014 who was signed to a one-year $1.1 million deal with the Dolphins in 2025 \u2014 will earn an additional $1.1 million for playing 980 defensive snaps in Miami. That number accounted for 92% of the team\u2019s defensive snaps last season. He finished the year with 17 starts which resulted in 77 combined tackles and one interception. He allowed opposing passers to complete 68.3% of passes his way for an average passer rating of 119.3 while giving up 6 touchdowns according to Pro Football Reference<\/a>.<\/p>\n As the league enters the second week of free agency ahead of the 2026 season, Jones remains unsigned while Miami has added numerous bodies to their defensive back room.<\/p>\n We will continue to keep you updated on all news Miami Dolphins related as the new league year rolls on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Dolphins have been busy rebuilding the front office, coaching staff and roster ahead of the 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,2797,125,124],"class_list":["post-193935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-dolphins-news","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193935","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=193935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}