Miami Dolphins add two defenders to camp roster
Death. Taxes. The Dolphins churning the bottom of their roster courtesy of the waiver wire. These are the certainties in life and the team is once again back at it with their acquisitions — the team added two defenders to the training camp roster yesterday. Granted, only one of the two additions came via the waiver wire, but never the less Miami seems intent to bring fresh faces into their building on a weekly basis.
Never settling? That’s a good problem to have.
Who are Miami’s new players? The team announced yesterday that they have claimed CB Breon Borders off the waiver wire from the Pittsburgh Steelers while also signing free agent defensive tackle Brandin Bryant. The trenches and secondary have been a common theme for Dolphins transactions this offseason, so it can’t really be too much of a surprise to see Miami continue to tinker and tweak these rooms as we creep closer to padded practices.
Borders was a UDFA cornerback out of Duke in 2017 who signed with the Raiders and has bounced around the NFL over the course of his first few seasons. The Dolphins are his seventh team — and given the depth of Miami’s cornerback room, Borders will be challenged to avoid looking for an eighth once the season starts. A practice squad role may be in his future with Miami.
Bryant is a former New York Jet and Cleveland Brown who has also dabbled in the CFL over the course of the last few years. He spent the 2019 season on both the Browns’ practice squad and active roster before being waived in May. He’s pretty familiar with the South Florida area, too — he played his college at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. He, too, will have a tough time making Miami’s active roster this summer — but he’s got a month to make an impression, starting now.
