Miami Dolphins rookies touched the grass on Friday for the first time for formal activities but it was the extra attendee you should be most excited about. <\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMay 8, 2026; Miami Gardens, FL, USA; Miami Dolphins inside linebacker Jacob Rodriguez (10) works with his teammates during rookie minicamp at Baptist Health Training Complex.
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The Miami Dolphins<\/a>\u2018 crowded rookie class had to wait a week to get into the action versus some of the rest of the league\u2019s teams. <\/p>\n But all good things to those who wait, as the saying goes. Friday brought the first taste of life as a Miami Dolphins players. Rookie minicamp opened and gave Miami\u2019s rookies their first formal on-field work as members of the team, alongside several tryout players. We got a chance to see first-round players like Kadyn Proctor<\/a> & Chris Johnson, plus some of the buzzy mid-round selections by the Dolphins. The most compelling appearance, however, didn\u2019t even come from a rookie. New starting quarterback Malik Willis showed up to get some face time with his new teammates. <\/p>\n New Miami Dolphins starting quarterback Malik Willis made a cameo at rookie minicamp<\/p>\n Call me a sucker if you\u2019d like. That\u2019s fine. I\u2019ll wear that badge and I\u2019ve been called much worse. <\/p>\n On the heels of the past few years of Miami Dolphins football, this is such a refreshing breath of fresh air. We\u2019ve seen Willis hard at work this offseason, both on his own<\/a> with some of his new teammates. He\u2019s already collected throwing sessions with (at least) new WR Jalen Tolbert going back to ahead of offseason workouts<\/a>. The extra miles are being taken. <\/p>\n Now? Rolling in to rookie minicamp? It\u2019s great. The saying is \u2018how you do anything is how you do everything\u2019 and Willis has been doing all the right things thus far in his Miami Dolphins tenure. It does not, of course, guarantee success. But I\u2019ll gladly allow myself to get excited about the prospect of Miami\u2019s most important player doing everything he can to be present and engaged with his young teammates. Especially as they work to get off the ground level together. <\/p>\n \t\t\t Miami Dolphins News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Dolphins rookies touched the grass on Friday for the first time for formal activities but it was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1250,102342,123,1763,2797,125,124],"class_list":["post-264768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-dolphins","tag-dolphins-news","tag-miami","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-miami-dolphins-news","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264768","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=264768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/USATSI_27418266_168410861_lowres.jpg\")
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