{"id":385827,"date":"2026-08-31T05:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T05:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/385827\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T05:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T05:36:14","slug":"miami-dolphins-set-initial-53-man-roster-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/385827\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Dolphins Set Initial 53-Man Roster for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dolphins finalized their <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MiamiDolphins\/status\/2094184250866044970\" rel=\"nofollow\">initial 53-man roster<\/a> for the 2026 season during the NFL&#8217;s league-wide roster cuts on Sunday. Here&#8217;s a breakdown of the roster by position (in numerical order):<\/p>\n<p>QB (2): 2 <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamidolphins.com\/team\/players-roster\/malik-willis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Malik Willis<\/a>, <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamidolphins.com\/team\/players-roster\/kyle-mccord\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle McCord<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to reducing their roster to 53 players, the Dolphins also moved cornerbacks <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamidolphins.com\/team\/players-roster\/darrell-baker-jr\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darrell Baker Jr.<\/a> and <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamidolphins.com\/team\/players-roster\/storm-duck\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Storm Duck<\/a> to the reserve\/physically unable to perform list and placed edge\/inside linebacker <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamidolphins.com\/team\/players-roster\/trey-moore\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trey Moore<\/a> and defensive lineman <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamidolphins.com\/team\/players-roster\/kenneth-grant\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kenneth Grant<\/a> on the injured reserve list with a designation for return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dolphins finalized their initial 53-man roster for the 2026 season during the NFL&#8217;s league-wide roster cuts on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8943,123,1763,125,124,115],"class_list":["post-385827","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\/385827","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=385827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}