The first padded practice of the 2026 season is in the books as the temperature turned up Monday in Miami Gardens. The first play of the day was a seemingly innocuous run for a minimal gain, but onlookers witnessed a core principle of their Miami Dolphins, even if they didn’t realize it.<\/p>\n
Rookie tight end Will Kacmarek executed a punishing pancake block, a common occurrence on his college tape at Ohio State. Fellow tight end Ben Sims recognized that moment as a defining example of what this team wants to be.<\/p>\n
“It’s one of our core values, toughness, and I saw that play on our script and I said, let’s do it,” Sims said. “Will (Kacmarek) is those values. He believes in that, so being able to do a counter on the first practice of pads speaks to what we want to be about.”<\/p>\n
Kacmarek and Sims brought the power, while rookie tight end Seydou Traore chewed up yardage on Monday. Traore started his day akin to Kacmarek with a space-clearing block. He then proceeded to catch a handful of passes for gains of 10-plus yards, including a one-handed grab along the sideline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first padded practice of the 2026 season is in the books as the temperature turned up Monday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8943,123,1763,125,124,115],"class_list":["post-362270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-latest-news","tag-miami","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362270","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=362270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}