Deal or No Deal: 10 of the Miami Dolphins Biggest Offseason Questions (Part 1 of 2)

Who should the Miami Dolphins want to keep or let go going into the 2024 season?

The Miami Dolphins are heading into the offseason approximately $51.89 million over the estimated $240 million salary cap for the 2024 season. Some, spearheaded by longtime Dolphins reporter Omar Kelly are calling it a “capocalypse,” and I can’t disagree. Like my guy Marty Huggins used to say, bring your brooms because it’s a mess.

Kicking the can down the road was great when the Dolphins were acquiring talent, but it seems that for the 2024-2025 season, the chickens have come home to roost. Most people believe that the salary cap isn’t real, including myself, because if the owner has deep enough pockets, you can convert a huge amount of the cap hit into bonuses that aren’t held against the cap itself.

Even with that being true, I don’t see Stephen Ross just handing out $100+ in bonuses to keep a team together that was decimated with injuries and got smacked out of the first round of the playoffs just to run it back. General Manager Chris Grier has to make some easy and some tough choices because it’s time to pay the piper, and the piper always gets paid.

Let’s review the ten players who’ll need answers in 2024 and decide whether they’re worth keeping, cutting, or trading. It’s deal or no deal time.

1. Terron Armstead: $14.25 Million 2024 Salary – NO DEAL
I was all aboard when the Dolphins signed Armstead back in the 2022 offseason to one of the highest tackle contracts in the league. The Dolphins needed someone to anchor the offensive line, and Armstead has done just that… when he’s healthy.

“Last year, Terron Armstead played 66.8% of the team’s snaps. This year, 50.5%. A lot of snaps he did play, but he’d accumulated so many injuries he was working on 1 or 2 out of 4 healthy limbs and didn’t look himself. He’s owed $14.25 million in 2024. I don’t think you can do that.” – Chris Kouffman (@ckparrot on X)

That’s just the problem. Armstead is on the wrong side of 30, and has been battling injuries for years. Don’t get me wrong, Armstead is a trooper and played through injuries, but he’s rarely ever close to 100%, and every year that goes on, he becomes more of an injury risk.