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The Miami Dolphins are going to have to come to a decision on what to do with defensive end Dion Jordan whenever the league reinstates him from his year-long suspension.
On April 28, 2015, the headlines surrounding the Miami Dolphins suddenly focused not on how the team would finally utilize defensive end Dion Jordan, but rather turned to Jordan's third drug-related suspension of his short career, landing the former Oregon Duck on a year-long suspension. The Dolphins picked Jordan with the third-overall selection in 2013, trading up to add the talented defensive end-linebacker "tweener" to the team. Entering what should be his fourth year in the league, Jordan has played in 26 total games, while being suspended for 22; he has as many career sacks, three, as he does career suspensions.
In the offseason where other teams are deciding if they want to use their fifth-year option on 2013 first round draft picks, the Dolphins do not know if they will ever have the services of their 2013 first round pick again. In other words, it has not been a good start to what should have been a promising career.
Jordan's one-year suspension ends next week, assuming he applies for reinstatement and the league decides to grant it. There are a multitude of questions surrounding Jordan, with whom the team could have no contact over the past year. Does he want to play football? Is he in shape? Can he avoid the drug issues that have troubled him the first three years since being drafted? Will having his former college teammate, linebackerKiko Alonso, help focus Jordan?
And those are not even the questions that involve the Dolphins themselves. Does Miami want Jordan back?
Jordan's suspension plays games with his contract, entering a legal term where the contract is said to have "tolled," which is essentially making it so the 2015 season did not happen, and keeping him in the third year of the contract.
That would mean that Jordan's salary cap hit from 2015 - which was not applied due to his being suspended for the year - would become his salary cap hit in 2016 ($5.36 million), with his $3.22 million hit moving to 2017. (To further explain, the salary cap pro-rate still counted in 2015, which accounted for a $3.07 million cap number for the Dolphins, but no salary counts, and in 2017, because the signing bonus was already accounted for over the original four-years of the contract, there would be no signing bonus pro-rated amount in the final season of his contract, which is why his cap number goes down in 2017, while his salary and roster bonus increase.)
Miami could elect to cut or trade Jordan once he is reinstated, or they could keep him, looking to find a role for a player who could still have potential, or, cynically, they could hold on to him, see if he fails another drug test, and then gain back the entire salary cap hit again.
More at LINK: http://www.thephinsider.com/2016/4/17/11447360/the-curious-case-of-dion-jordan-part-iv-what-do-the-dolphins-do-when
On April 28, 2015, the headlines surrounding the Miami Dolphins suddenly focused not on how the team would finally utilize defensive end Dion Jordan, but rather turned to Jordan's third drug-related suspension of his short career, landing the former Oregon Duck on a year-long suspension. The Dolphins picked Jordan with the third-overall selection in 2013, trading up to add the talented defensive end-linebacker "tweener" to the team. Entering what should be his fourth year in the league, Jordan has played in 26 total games, while being suspended for 22; he has as many career sacks, three, as he does career suspensions.
In the offseason where other teams are deciding if they want to use their fifth-year option on 2013 first round draft picks, the Dolphins do not know if they will ever have the services of their 2013 first round pick again. In other words, it has not been a good start to what should have been a promising career.
Jordan's one-year suspension ends next week, assuming he applies for reinstatement and the league decides to grant it. There are a multitude of questions surrounding Jordan, with whom the team could have no contact over the past year. Does he want to play football? Is he in shape? Can he avoid the drug issues that have troubled him the first three years since being drafted? Will having his former college teammate, linebackerKiko Alonso, help focus Jordan?
And those are not even the questions that involve the Dolphins themselves. Does Miami want Jordan back?
Jordan's suspension plays games with his contract, entering a legal term where the contract is said to have "tolled," which is essentially making it so the 2015 season did not happen, and keeping him in the third year of the contract.
That would mean that Jordan's salary cap hit from 2015 - which was not applied due to his being suspended for the year - would become his salary cap hit in 2016 ($5.36 million), with his $3.22 million hit moving to 2017. (To further explain, the salary cap pro-rate still counted in 2015, which accounted for a $3.07 million cap number for the Dolphins, but no salary counts, and in 2017, because the signing bonus was already accounted for over the original four-years of the contract, there would be no signing bonus pro-rated amount in the final season of his contract, which is why his cap number goes down in 2017, while his salary and roster bonus increase.)
Miami could elect to cut or trade Jordan once he is reinstated, or they could keep him, looking to find a role for a player who could still have potential, or, cynically, they could hold on to him, see if he fails another drug test, and then gain back the entire salary cap hit again.
More at LINK: http://www.thephinsider.com/2016/4/17/11447360/the-curious-case-of-dion-jordan-part-iv-what-do-the-dolphins-do-when
