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Dolphins guarantee him 130K. Over the past two years we have averaged 23K on UDFA. I know they worked with him at the senior bowl. To guarantee that much they must of really wanted him bad. I don't know anything about the guy other than what I read on the net. How about you guys? Any idea why they wanted him so badly?
 
Someone liked him, but it is still just a very small investment when you consider the projected magnitude of expenditure by the team on players ($197.2M in 2021 this includes the $15M we were able to roll over from 2020).
 
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Russ57 said:
Dolphins guarantee him 130K. Over the past two years we have averaged 23K on UDFA. I know they worked with him at the senior bowl. To guarantee that much they must of really wanted him bad. I don't know anything about the guy other than what I read on the net. How about you guys? Any idea why they wanted him so badly?
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He played for the Dolphin coaches in the Senior Bowl and they obviously saw something in him that they felt was worth giving him more money to sign as an UDFA.
When you look at all the offensive linemen they have drafted over the last 10 years and paid far more than they are going to pay Jones, I have no problem with them signing Jones. They have wasted millions of dollars on offensive linemen over the years they drafted who were useless. So if they saw something in him during the week of Senior Bowl practices and the game they liked, $130,000 is well worth it to see if he can come in and replace one of the backup offensive linemen now on the roster.
 
That's a really small outlay in the scheme of things. For instance, we gave Elandon Roberts, a marginal run-stopping MLB a 650K signing bonus, and he is coming off a week 16 injury which may lead him to begin the season on the PUP list.

But why Robert Jones? My guess is that they had Jones and Larnell Coleman (selected in the 7th round) ranked about the same, and when the realized that they could get them both... and let the two fight it out for Pankey's back-up Tackle spot, and do this at a laughable expenditure... they said yes.

One of the two gets cut, no matter what happens.
 
I have a hunch they might try him at center. Don't know much other than he profiles as physical and someone who can move people. Sounds like a phone booth type, though, without ideal movement skills.
 
I think the main idea of the OP was that you only have a limited amount of guaranteed money allowed for UDFAs. So if we gave him most of it, then it limits what higher level UDFAs we can get to sign with us.

With that said, we had a limited number of roster spots left after the draft. Way fewer than we have had since Flores came in, because we have had a large number of draft picks over his tenure. This means we don’t need to spread that capped guaranteed money over many players and can go heavy on one or two guys instead, since there is less opportunity to make the roster this season than usual.

I’m also hoping that we have less contested positions where a UDFA can unseat a projected rostered player because our talent level is much higher than we are used to, as fans.
 
Just wondering why we paid him more than our 7th round pick. It isn't about the actual amount. More about what we did offer compared to what we likely could have offered and still had him.
 
CANDolphan said:
He was likely getting lots of offers from other teams and Miami wanted to lock up a guy they had a 6th round grade on. Simple as that. They paid 130k for a 6th round pick. Im okay with that.
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Yes. Rare to have a bidding war for an udfa but I believe you are right.
 
spiketex said:
Someone liked him, but it is still just a very small investment when you consider the projected magnitude of expenditure by the team on players ($197.2M in 2021 this includes the $15M we were able to roll over from 2020).
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I don’t think the OP cared as much about the cap ramifications as he did the value and priority the FO put on signing him. Makes you believe he’s a high level prospect than your garden variety UDFA.
 
Feverdream said:
But why Robert Jones? My guess is that they had Jones and Larnell Coleman (selected in the 7th round) ranked about the same, and when the realized that they could get them both... and let the two fight it out for Pankey's back-up Tackle spot, and do this at a laughable expenditure... they said yes.

One of the two gets cut, no matter what happens.
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Almost all the scouting reports on him say that he'll have to kick inside to guard and need a year on the practice squad to work out some technique deficiencies.
 
Miami's invested a lot in an attempt to get the offensive line straightened out. With the starters in place, it appears they went looking for developmental types to fill out the backend of the roster. It seems as if Fluker, Davis and Deiter are locked in as the reserves. With perhaps Jones or Coleman competing with Pankey for the last roster spot along the offensive line.
 
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