Fins GM: 'Anticipate' long-term Chubb deal soon

MIAMI -- Less than 24 hours aft trading for Broncos linebacker Bradley Chubb, Dolphins wide manager Chris Grier said the squad expects to motion Chubb to a semipermanent deal.

The 26-year-old is successful the last twelvemonth of the rookie declaration helium signed successful 2018, but Grier made it wide that Miami did not portion ways with a first-round prime for a one-year rental.

"When you bash a woody similar that for a player, you ever would similar to -- from our position erstwhile we bash concern -- we would similar to person thing done and we expect having thing finished up present shortly," helium said.

The erstwhile Pro Bowler has recorded 5.5 sacks this play and ranks 3rd successful the NFL with a 25.8% walk unreserved triumph rate; his caller teammate, Jaelan Phillips, ranks fourth.

Chubb's vocation has been marred by injuries implicit the past 3 seasons. He has missed 24 retired of 49 imaginable games entering 2022, chiefly owed to a torn ACL and a bony spur successful his ankle. Grier said the Dolphins did extended probe into his wounded past and enactment ethic and determined determination was nary large origin for concern.

"If you spell astir the league and look astatine immoderate of the different guys that are premium walk rushers, historically there's been guys that person had ACLs and aggregate ACL injuries, too, arsenic well," Grier said. "He's a pugnacious kid. He keeps himself successful large shape.

"Listen, injuries happen. But we consciousness bully that astatine his property and however helium plays and the things we bash that it was a hazard worthy taking."

Spotrac lists Chubb's marketplace worth astatine $90.5 cardinal implicit 4 years; the Dolphins presently person $5.1 cardinal successful wage headdress abstraction but restructured linebacker Jerome Baker's declaration successful an effort to make immoderate flexibility, a root told ESPN's Field Yates.

Over the adjacent 2 seasons, the Dolphins volition person to marque decisions connected respective cardinal players, specified arsenic Christian Wilkins, Andrew Van Ginkel, Nik Needham and Tua Tagovailoa, portion besides issuing $17 cardinal oregon much to 4 players, not including Chubb - Tyreek Hill, Terron Armstead, Byron Jones and Emmanuel Ogbah. But Grier said the commercialized wasn't short-sighted and they considered their aboriginal fiscal flexibility.

"I deliberation erstwhile you bash these benignant of deals, you ever person to person an oculus connected the future," Grier said. "For us, adding Bradley, he's a bully player, but we besides consciousness bully about, Jaelan, Andrew and Melvin (Ingram). So adding that portion to that group, but you ever person to look for the future."

Coach Mike McDaniel said the commercialized was thing helium hoped would happen, adding that Chubb has been connected his radar since his clip with the San Francisco 49ers.

"As you guys know, I person an affinity for borderline players, it's my circumstantial presumption of choice," helium said. "Having practiced against (Chubb) backmost successful 2019 and besides in-game stuff, he's been connected our radar arsenic 1 of those guys that tin truly dictate the presumption of what (opponents) are capable to bash offensively, which is wherefore it's chill to person him here."

At 5-3 done the archetypal 8 weeks of the season, the Dolphins person looked similar a playoff contender successful the AFC - mostly owed to the occurrence of their 7th-ranked offense. Led by the NFL's person successful backmost rating, Tagovailoa, Miami is poised to drawback a 27-year drought without a top-10 offense.

But Grier and McDaniel insisted this determination for Chubb was simply astir adding "a truly bully subordinate astatine a premium position," and not the effect of an accelerated timeline owed to Tagovailoa's improvement successful 2022.

"I would accidental it has an effect connected it," Grier said. "But I don't deliberation we looked astatine it - due to the fact that you heard america from Day 1, particularly Mike from Day 1 was like, 'This is the feline and we're going to triumph a batch of games with him.'"

McDaniel reaffirmed Tagovailoa's presumption arsenic the franchise's quarterback, and acknowledged that having that benignant of assurance successful your backmost makes it easier to marque "big picture" decisions.

"There is immoderate clarity successful being very, precise assured successful your starting quarterback," McDaniel said.

"From the get-go, I've afloat seen Tua arsenic our backmost for this squad and this franchise. I deliberation he's an unbelievable endowment ... This is not thing that we re-thought aft helium had a bully game. This is thing that, since I've been here, we've benignant of known and we've been capable to run with that successful caput with each the things that we've done."