Dolphins have 2 players Mike Gilsicki and Kenyan Drake that are not as productive as they would like but must scare the hell out of them to get rid of, both could go to other teams and end up as big stars in the league.
Probably hold on to Gilsicki because he is still on his rookie contract and if they land Tua who is a more accurate QB who see's the field better and can throw into a tighter windows could be the answer to Gilsicki troubles, it's still possible he ends up the best of them all. He is never going to be an inline blocking TE he is a specialist who hasn't been all that special, still time for the Dolphins to come up with answers.
Time may be up for Drake who has shown flashes of good to excellent running along with some average running who puts the ball on the ground, he is coming off rookie contract next year and I believe they tried to move him this year and couldn't get what they wanted, still posses the talent to be a good to excellent player in the league maybe just not for the Dolphins if he doesn't excell the next 12 games
Easy to see why Grier liked Gilsicki last 2 years Penn State were decent and he crushed the combine. He was a bit of a reach....looking for excellence and so far coming up with below average.
Don't know why Dolphins fans think Gase liked him looking at it with a bit of hind-site all he did was misuse him asking him to block when he knew he couldn't, exposing a players weakness for all to see is not what I would call good coaching, more than likely trying to get Grier fired and replace him with his own GM. (NY Jet-Gase got GM fired) not 100% sure what the deal is/was seems like a total disconnect between GM and HC.
So over the 1yr plus 4 games Gilsicki has had one coach who totally misused him and another year of a team going thru a rebuild with a QB who doesn't have an offensive line and is not yet even an average NFL caliber QB.
I won't pretend to know what the new coaching staff thinks of Gelsicki or what his future is with the Dolphins, I will say he has little trade value at this point and unless the Dolphins find a way to help him become successful he will become another miss in an already long line of misses.
It's not over for him yet..... Tua then 2 years to see
Mark Andrews was asked to block 1 time so far in his NFL career - excellent miss-match TE, big, fast, excellent receiver who knows how to use his size - still only a specialist and only has receiver skills as excellent as they are. Backup to starter Nick Boyle - drafted in the 3rd round was an excellent pickup at that spot.
Dallas Goedert is backup to Zach Ertz, on a team with everything now QB, OL more of a traditional TE 2-way blocking-catching he in an excellent spot and has someone to learn from and is playing for a playoff spot every year now.