The Dolphins and wide receiver Jaylen Waddle have reached an agreement on a three-year, $84.75 million contract extension that includes $76 million guaranteed, sources told ESPN.
Damien Woody and Mike Greenberg react to Jaylen Waddle's contract extension and analyze whether Tua Tagovailoa is good enough to elevate the Dolphins to title contenders. Marcel Louis-Jacques joined ESPN in 2019 as a beat reporter covering the Buffalo Bills, before switching to the Miami Dolphins in 2021. The former Carolina Panthers beat writer for the Charlotte Observer won the APSE award for breaking news and the South Carolina Press Association award for enterprise writing in 2018.
The No. 6 overall pick in 2021 set a rookie record with 104 receptions and followed that campaign with a career-best 1,356 yards in 2022 in his first season under coach Mike McDaniel. Waddle recorded his third straight 1,000-yard season in 2023 despite missing three games, becoming the first player in Dolphins history to record three consecutive seasons of at least 1,000 receiving yards.
Dolphins general manager Chris Grier said in April that the team felt good about where things were with Waddle's extension. He laughed off the idea that Miami should consider trading Waddle and reaffirmed the team's commitment to keeping him around long term. "No, as I said in the middle of the season, I have no thoughts of trading Jaylen Waddle," Grier said in February."We want him here for a long time, and we think he's a big part of our now and our future here. He's a great person on and off the field, and we still think, as good as he is, he still has runway to keep getting better."
Waddle is the second key player of the Dolphins' rebuild over the past five years to sign a long-term extension with the team, joining 2020 first-round pick
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