{"id":473936,"date":"2026-02-17T14:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/473936\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:05:15","slug":"dolphins-release-james-daniels-nick-westbrook-ikhine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/473936\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins release James Daniels, Nick Westbrook-Ikhine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dolphins are continuing to reshape their roster by releasing more veteran players.<\/p>\n<p>According to Tom Pelissero of NFL Media, Miami is releasing guard James Daniels and receiver Nick Westbrook-Ikhine.<\/p>\n<p>Daniels, 28, played just three snaps in 2025 after signing a three-year deal with the Dolphins in free agency. He suffered a pectoral injury in the season opener and spent the rest of the season on injured reserve.<\/p>\n<p>Releasing Daniels will save the Dolphins $6.5 million against the cap in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Westbrook-Ikhine signed a two-year deal with Miami last offseason. He appeared in 15 games with three starts, catching 11 passes for 89 yards. His release will save Miami $1.5 million against the cap in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Miami notably has also let go of edge rusher Bradley Chubb and receiver Tyreek Hill on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dolphins are continuing to reshape their roster by releasing more veteran players. According to Tom Pelissero of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-473936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}