{"id":423025,"date":"2026-10-09T07:08:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/423025\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T07:08:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:08:33","slug":"miami-dolphins-re-sign-practice-squad-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/423025\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Dolphins re-sign practice squad defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Miami Dolphins rookie general manager \u2014 Jon-Eric Sullivan \u2014 has stayed busy churning the bottom of the roster during his first season in charge of the club. On Thursday, Sullivan signed a new player to Miami\u2019s practice squad while releasing another.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">EDGE Amari Gainer was signed. To make room for Gainer, defensive lineman Keith Cooper Jr. was released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Gainer \u2014 26 years old \u2014 was with the Dolphins\u2019 practice squad earlier last month. Originally an undrafted free agent signing of the Raiders following the 2024 NFL Draft, Gainer played in 17 games for Las Vegas that year, totaling five tackles on special teams. In 2025, he spent time with both the Raiders and the New England Patriots \u2014 on each teams\u2019 practice squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The 6\u20193\u201d, 240 lb defender spent six years in college \u2014 five with Florida State and one with North Carolina. He finished his college career with 237 tackles (115 solo), 8.5 sacks, 25.0 tackles for loss, four passes defensed, six forced fumbles and three fumble recoveries.<\/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 the Cincinnati Bengals to Hard Rock Stadium this Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Dolphins rookie general manager \u2014 Jon-Eric Sullivan \u2014 has stayed busy churning the bottom of the roster&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,33997,125,124],"class_list":["post-423025","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\/423025","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=423025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}