Wallace and Ellerbe were set to count a combined $18.5M in cash and roughly $20M in cap for 2015, luxuries a team that has been this mediocre could not afford. That's to say nothing of the fact that neither player's production had come close to what he was rewarded with by former GM Jeff Ireland in free agency two years ago. They had to go, and would have been gone via the waiver wire had no trade emerged … and despite that both were shipped off in a matter of hours, no less. Wallace had become something of a cancer to the coaches and in the locker room (the scathing remarks by the Pouncey brothers, who each played with him whether in Pittsburgh or Miami, speak to that) and for all of his speed and remaining potential, he had to go, and other teams knew it. And the Dolphins still moved him for a decent enough return.
