The Miami Dolphins are reportedly including veteran assistance on the sting after the preseason’s conclusion within the type of former Patriots and Lions defensive finish Trey Flowers.
Flowers and the Dolphins reached an settlement, in accordance with ESPN, on Sunday after the NFL Network reported this previous week that he was on the workforce’s facility for a exercise.
Flowers is a seven-year NFL veteran with 64 begins amongst his 75 video games performed. He has 261 profession regular-season tackles, 31 ½ sacks, 10 pressured fumbles and 4 fumble recoveries.
The 6-foot-2, 265-pound edge defender is a two-time Super Bowl champion from his first 4 seasons with the Patriots. In New England, he hung out with present Dolphins defensive coordinator Josh Boyer, who was a cornerbacks coach there. Flowers has performed the previous three season with the Detroit Lions, the place he additionally performed some outdoors linebacker in seven begins in 2021.
The transfer comes because the Dolphins have outdoors linebacker Andrew Van Ginkel’s standing doubtful for the beginning of the common season after the elimination of his appendix. Fellow outdoors linebacker Brennan Scarlett, who has additionally acquired reps at defensive finish this offseason, has additionally missed current weeks of follow with an undisclosed harm.
Scarlett might be on the roster cutoff line with the NFL deadline to get right down to 53 gamers on the lively roster quick approaching on Tuesday at 4 p.m. Others reminiscent of Porter Gustin, Darius Hodge and seventh-round rookie Cameron Goode are amongst gamers competing for a ultimate roster spot on the place.
This offseason, the Dolphins signed Melvin Ingram as the important thing defensive acquisition after revamping the offense. Ingram seems to be in line to start out reverse Jaelan Phillips at outdoors linebacker with defensive finish Emmanuel Ogbah a defensive finish in a base three-man entrance.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com