The Miami Dolphins continue to collect highly drafted defensive linemen discarded by the team that drafted them.
A week after signing Nate Orchard, a former second-round pick, they added defensive tackle Adolphus Washington, a third-round pick by the Bills in 2016. The Dolphins have listed Orchard as a linebacker.
To make room for Washington on Miami’s 91-man roster, the Dolphins cut linebacker James Burgess.
Dolphins have signed free-agent defensive lineman Adolphus Washington to a one-year deal, per source.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) May 23, 2019
He is on his fourth team in less than a year. The Bills cut him last summer, but after a short stint on the Cowboys’ practice squad, Washington was claimed by the Bengals. He was available for the Dolphins to sign after the Bengals released him last month.
Washington (6-4, 295 pounds) has 62 tackles and 4.5 sacks in his three-year career.
Washington is known around the NFL for his athleticism, which helped him become Ohio’s Gatorade Basketball Player of the Year in 2012, and a Parade All-American in both football and basketball.
This offseason, Miami has embarked on a youth movement with the roster, and the hardest hit unit has been the defensive line because it meant four veterans – Cameron Wake, Robert Quinn, Andrew Branch, and Williams Hayes – wouldn’t return.
Wake signed with the Tennessee Titans as a free agent. Quinn was traded to the Cowboys for a 2020 sixth-round pick, Branch was released and hasn’t found a new NFL team, and Hayes is still rehabbing the season-ending injury he suffered early last season.
Much like the rest of the Dolphins’ signings this offseason, Washington is a low-risk, high-reward signing that could pay dividends. Now and potentially, in the future.
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