{"id":300197,"date":"2026-06-08T17:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/300197\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T17:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:56:12","slug":"dolphins-90-in-90-josh-uche-adds-to-miami-pass-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/300197\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins 90 in 90: Josh Uche adds to Miami pass rush"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Miami Dolphins are heading into the 2026 NFL season rebuilding the entire franchise, from the front office through the coaching staff and on to the roster. The Dolphins are looking to reset a franchise that has struggled to consistently reach the playoffs and has not won in the playoffs since the 2000 season. Miami<\/a> is looking to the future even as the load up for this year.<\/p>\n

Miami\u2019s rebuild has featured several free-agent signings on one-year contracts, giving them veterans for the year while they work out of a salary-cap mess. One of those free agent additions is edge rusher Josh Uche, who signed as a free agent in March.<\/p>\n

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Biography<\/p>\n

Name: Josh Uche
Number: 9
Position: Edge
Height \/ Weight: 6\u20193\u201d \/ 226 pounds
Age (at start of season): 27 (turns 28 in Week 2)
Experience: 7th year<\/p>\n

College: Michigan
Draft: 2020 2nd round (60th overall)
Acquired: 2026 free agent signing<\/p>\n

Contract and 2026 salary cap<\/p>\n

Contract: 1-year, $1.4 million<\/p>\n

2026 salary cap: $1.3 million<\/p>\n

Contract details via OverTheCap.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n

2025 review (with Eagles)<\/p>\n

Games played: 12
Tackles: 23
Sacks: 1
Passes defensed: 1<\/p>\n

Uche signed a one-year contract with Philadelphia in the 2025 offseason with the expectation that he would compete for a starting position as an outside linebacker and provide quality defensive snaps. When the season started, Uche was a rotational pass rusher. Then the Eagles traded for Jaelan Phillips<\/a> from the Dolphins, and Uche\u2019s defensive contributions essentially ended eight games into the season.<\/p>\n

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Brandon Lee Gowton at Bleeding Green Nation wrote about Uche when he signed with the Dolphins, looking back at the 2025 campaign:<\/p>\n

For some reason, I am not likely to give Fangio the same benefit of the doubt that Gowton extends him, but the fact remains that Uche saw his playing time limited to special teams for much of the second half of the season and did not find his way back into the pass-rush rotation.<\/p>\n

Offseason moves<\/p>\n

Defensive end signings:\u00a0Robert Beal, Jr., Seth Coleman<\/a>, Cameron Goode<\/a> (re-signed), Rodney McGraw (UDFA), David Ojabo<\/a>,\u00a0Mason Reiger (UDFA), Josh Uche<\/p>\n

Released:\u00a0Bradley Chubb<\/a>, Derrick McLendon (waived)<\/p>\n

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Drafted:\u00a0Trey Moore (4th round), Max Llewellyn (7th round)<\/p>\n

2026 expectations<\/p>\n

Uche probably has an early lead for the starting defensive end position opposite Chop Robinson<\/a>, but he will have to earn the spot throughout the summer. Uche, growing up in South Florida, used film of former Dolphins edge rusher Cameron Wake<\/a> to develop his game, explaining, \u201cI played for the Palmetto Bay Broncos<\/a> and so I would always like \u2013 they moved me from nose guard to d-tackle to defensive end and so every point of the way I just watched what was Cam Wake doing it. That coiled stance is like trademark. That\u2019s what I learned from him, first step, bend around the edge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Uche\u2019s career has been one built around disrupting quarterbacks and creating pressure \u2013 but he has not always finished with the sack totals based on those pressures. However, if he can provide anything like a Cam Wake first step to Miami\u2019s pass rush, he will not only provide solid rotational play, but could find himself starting all season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Dolphins are heading into the 2026 NFL season rebuilding the entire franchise, from the front office…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[126159,11115,9788,84667,126161,106672,89151,47,84665,35381,11117,126158,5270,123,1763,2431,125,124,10830,10828,126160,12070],"class_list":["post-300197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-baptist-health-sports-center","tag-bradley-chubb","tag-broncos","tag-cameron-goode","tag-cameron-wake","tag-chop-robinson","tag-david-ojabo","tag-fl","tag-free-agent","tag-icon-sportswire","tag-jaelan-phillips","tag-josh-uche","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-miami","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-miami-gardens","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-seth-coleman","tag-the-dolphins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300197","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=300197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}