Malik Willis to the Dolphins – can the QB prove himself in Miami?
Yahoo Sports host Caroline Fenton reacts to the quarterback’s new three-year, $67.5 million deal with Miami – and whether the career backup is ready for a full-time starting role.
Video Transcript
On the same day that the Miami Dolphins cut quarterback Tua Tagovailoa and agreed to pay the ninety-nine million dollar dead cap hit over the next two years that it would take to move on from Tua, the Dolphins also signed their quarterback of the near future.
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The Miami Dolphins have signed highly coveted free agent quarterback Malik Willis to a three-year sixty-seven and a half million dollar deal.
Now, that includes forty-five million dollars of guarantees and averages out to about twenty-two and a half million dollars per year.
Now, the fit does make sense.
Malik Willis comes to Miami from Green Bay, and Miami’s general manager, John Eric Sullivan, was hired from Green Bay.
Jeff Hafley, their new head coach, was also brought over from Green Bay.
And also, former Tennessee Titans general manager, who drafted Malik Willis to Tennessee, is a personnel executive in the Miami Dolphins building.
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So that makes sense, pre-existing relationships there.
But the question remains, is Malik Willis a starting quarterback in the NFL?
Because he hasn’t been.
He was a backup in Tennessee and then was a backup in Green Bay.
And while he proved himself coming in in relief of Jordan Love when he was out for several games in twenty twenty-five, he, he still has not proven himself to be a starting caliber quarterback.
And the Miami Dolphins are paying Malik Willis to be a starting caliber quarterback, along with all of the money that they’ll be paying in Tua Tagovailoa’s cap hit.
So that’s one big question for the Miami Dolphins.
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The second question is, what do the Arizona Cardinals do?
I thought it would make so much sense for Malik Willis to go play for his former head coach’s brother and play for Monti Ossenfort, the general manager in Arizona, who was previously part of the front office in Tennessee, again, when they drafted Malik Willis just a couple of years ago.
But Malik Willis, one of the biggest fish in free agency in twenty twenty-six, is headed to the Miami Dolphins.
