{"id":99980,"date":"2025-12-30T13:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T13:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/99980\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T13:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T13:55:08","slug":"miami-dolphins-most-valuable-player-week-seventeen-first-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/99980\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Dolphins\u2019 Most Valuable Player | Week Seventeen | First class"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Miami Dolphins pulled off the upset in Week 17 when they defeated the visiting Tampa Bay Buccaneers by a score of 20-17. The game featured a lot of firsts for young Dolphins players.<\/p>\n

Quinn Ewers threw his first touchdown pass \u2014 while on the same play, Theo Wease Jr. had his first touchdown reception. Andrew Meyer saw his first action as a professional \u2014 filling in at center for the injured Aaron Brewer. Jason Marshall Jr. intercepted his first pass as a member of the Dolphins \u2014 and his first since his second season at the University of Florida in 2022. Zeek Biggers blocked his first field goal since being drafted by the Dolphins in the seventh round of the 2025 NFL Draft, but the big defensive tackle had four such blocks in college at Georgia Tech.<\/p>\n

While many youngsters earned their stripes on Sunday, it was one veteran who took home my Most Valuable \u2018Phin (MVP) award for the first time this season.<\/p>\n

Miami Dolphins<\/a> Week Sixteen MVP – EDGE Bradley Chubb<\/p>\n

Bradley Chubb took a massive pay cut ahead of the 2025 season in order to stay with the Dolphins after missing the entirety of the 2024 season following a torn ACL in December of 2023. While engineering the pay cut, Miami loaded Chubb\u2019s contract with incentives in order to gain back some of the money he was giving up.<\/p>\n

Chubb has met many of the incentives in his revised contract \u2014 with one caveat.<\/p>\n

According to Spotrac.com<\/a>, if the 29-year-old is to earn the incentives in his contract, the pay bump is contingent on the Dolphins defense finishing in the top 20 NFL defenses in points allowed per game. Currently, Miami is 21st in that category, with a date with the New England Patriots and their high powered offense scheduled for Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Regardless, his performance against Tampa Bay helped sink the Buccaneers as Chubb finished the game with three tackles, two sacks and a forced fumble that was recovered by his teammate Quinton Bell.<\/p>\n

Week One – RB De\u2019Von Achane<\/p>\n

Week Two – WR\/PR Malik Washington<\/p>\n

Week Three – RB Ollie Gordon II<\/p>\n

Week Four – TE Darren Waller<\/p>\n

Week Five – WR Jaylen Waddle<\/p>\n

Week Six – RB De\u2019Von Achane<\/p>\n

Week Seven – RB De\u2019Von Achane<\/p>\n

Week Eight – LB Jordyn Brooks<\/p>\n

Week Nine – OL Daniel Brunskill<\/p>\n

Week Ten – RB De\u2019Von Achane<\/p>\n

Week Eleven – LB Jordyn Brooks<\/p>\n

Week Thirteen – SAF Minkah Fitzpatrick<\/p>\n

Week Fourteen – CB Rasul Douglas<\/p>\n

Week Fifteen – TE Darren Waller<\/p>\n

Week Sixteen – RB De\u2019Von Achane<\/p>\n

Week Seventeen – EDGE Bradley Chubb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Dolphins pulled off the upset in Week 17 when they defeated the visiting Tampa Bay Buccaneers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,2798,125,124],"class_list":["post-99980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-dolphins-scores-results","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99980","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=99980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}