{"id":407137,"date":"2026-09-22T12:16:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T12:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/407137\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T12:16:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T12:16:36","slug":"miami-dolphins-sign-defender-from-buffalo-bills-practice-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/407137\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Dolphins sign defender from Buffalo Bills practice squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Miami Dolphins have lost two straight regular season contests to open the Jon-Eric Sullivan and Jeff Hafley era with an 0-2 record. Playing a large part in the disappointing first two games is Miami\u2019s special teams unit coached by Chris Tabor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">On Monday, the Dolphins signed a player Tabor is familiar with off of the Buffalo Bills\u2019 practice squad \u2014 linebacker Andre Jones Jr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Tabor coached Jones in Buffalo last season when he was the Bills\u2019 special teams coordinator for the year. Last season, Jones appeared in three games for the Bills \u2014 recording five total tackles during those contests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Prior to joining the Bills in his third season in the league, the undrafted linebacker out of Louisianna-Lafayette spent two seasons with the Washington Commanders. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/J\/JoneAn02.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pro Football Reference<\/a>, Jones has played 294 snaps on special teams since entering the National Football League ahead of the 2023 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">We will continue to keep you updated on all things Miami Dolphins as the team prepares to welcome Patrick Mahomes, Ken Walker III, Travis Kelce and the rest of the Kansas City Chiefs to Hard Rock Stadium this upcoming Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">UPDATE: Inside linebacker Liam Anderson was waived to make room for Jones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Dolphins have lost two straight regular season contests to open the Jon-Eric Sullivan and Jeff Hafley&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,33997,125,124],"class_list":["post-407137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-dolphins-roster","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407137","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=407137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}