Malik Washington

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• Week 2Sep 21, 2026

  Malik Washington — Week 2: Twenty-Three Yards on Third and Nine

  Washington caught 4 of 5 targets for 43 yards and two first downs, the longest a 23-yard catch on third and 9 that set up a field goal before halftime, and added a 4-yard carry, three kickoff returns for 69 yards and a 7-yard punt return. Five targets were second on the team to De'Von Achane's six, down from eight in Week 1, in a 35–13 loss to the 49ers.

• Week 1Sep 14, 2026

  Malik Washington — Week 1: Eight Targets, Most on the Team

  Washington led the Dolphins with eight targets, caught three for fifty-three yards — thirty of them deep middle in the fourth quarter — and fumbled away a twenty-four-yard catch with two minutes left. Six of the eight targets were deep throws and four of those fell incomplete; his eight came out at minus three point two expected points, in a 27–13 loss to the Raiders.

• Camp · Aug 31, 2026Aug 31, 2026

  Malik Washington Camp Update — August 31: The Receiver Room Thinned in His Favor

  Malik Washington made the initial fifty-three-man roster Miami announced Sunday, one of seven receivers kept. Six receivers left the building in six days — Tutu Atwell traded, Terrace Marshall Jr. and Jalen Reagor released, three more waived — and the seven who remain skew young, with two rookies and a waiver claim among them.

• Camp · Aug 23, 2026Aug 23, 2026

  Malik Washington Camp Update — August 23: Held Out Like a Starter

  Malik Washington did not play a snap in Saturday's twenty-six to three loss to the Giants — held out alongside Malik Willis, De'Von Achane and Miami's other regulars. In a receiver room where everyone else spent the night being evaluated, the rest itself is the status report.

• Camp · Aug 16, 2026Aug 17, 2026

  Malik Washington Camp Update — August 16: Three of the Four Completions

  On the only drive Miami's starters played Friday, Malik Willis completed four passes and Malik Washington caught three of them. The June question was who claims the vacancy when Willis plays with the ones. First live answer: him.

• 2026 PreviewJul 3, 2026

  Malik Washington 2026 Season Preview — what repeats, what doesn't

  WATCHLIST — WR71 paying him as if nothing changed, in a room that just deleted 129 wideout targets above him. Can't underwrite a share nobody's been handed with a six-start QB; won't fade the one returning receiver who's earned targets in the building.

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  Every wideout who out-targeted Malik Washington in Miami last season is gone. Tyreek Hill was released in February. Jaylen Waddle was traded in March. What's left is a second-year sixth-rounder, the biggest target vacancy in football, and a coaching staff that spent June carefully not naming anyone the number one. Receiver 71, pick one-84, is the market refusing to price the vacancy until somebody claims it.

  The season: all 17 games, 46 catches on 65 targets — a 71 percent catch rate — for 317 yards and three receiving scores, +17 carries for a hundred 10 yards and a fourth touchdown on the ground. 5.5 Half-PPR points a game, 60-eighth among receivers per game, 50-sixth in total. 14 percent of Miami's targets in his games, a slot-and-gadget role with return work stapled on. Useful, real, and nothing about it screamed number-one receiver — because nothing about it was asked to.

  The career is two seasons pointing the same direction: 26 catches as a rookie, 46 last year, the rate up from 3.1 a game to 5.5. Small role, honest growth. And only one Miami wideout drew more targets than him last season — Waddle, a hundred to 65 — which is the quiet fact this whole episode turns on.

  The pattern beat: volume is identity — targets per game replicate at point-seven-nine across 954 receiver seasons — and his identity so far is 3.8 a game. Stickiness argues the baseline holds; it has nothing to say about a depth chart that just deleted a hundred 29 targets of wideout volume above him. No pattern in our library conditions on opportunity this open. We price what happened; the vacancy is what hasn't.

  The situation is a room stripped to the studs and restocked with maybes. Hill, released off the knee in February; Waddle, traded to Denver in March for a package built around the thirtieth pick; the veteran adds are Jalen Tolbert and Tutu Atwell, +3 drafted rookies. The June reporting out of the beat says Washington was the standout of OTAs — the head coach praised his catch-and-run game by name — and the same beat's depth-chart pieces say nobody emerged as the number one all spring. The quarterback is Malik Willis, signed in March on a deal ESPN's report said makes him the starter, and the seven-on-seven chemistry notes from camp coverage pair the two Maliks repeatedly. Bobby Slowik coordinates, on a seven-and-10 team whose offseason was a controlled demolition.

  The price: WR71 at pick one-84. The slot paid 5.1 last season; he produced 5.5 in the old, small role. The market is paying him as if nothing changed — and everything changed. Our verdict: watchlist. We can't underwrite a target share nobody has been given, in an offense with a new play-caller and a quarterback with six career starts before this one — and we won't fade the one returning receiver who's actually earned targets in this building either. The caveat cuts both ways by construction: if he claims the vacancy, the 14 percent becomes 20-something and WR71 was robbery — and if Miami's answer is Tolbert, Atwell, and a rookie by committee, then five-and-a-half a game at WR71 is simply the going rate.

  Watch the first camp depth chart and the preseason snap chart — specifically who runs with the ones when Willis does — and then September's target share against the 14 percent baseline. The vacancy is the story; somebody has to claim it on tape. He's one of your guys? This show covers your whole roster — every player, every week, all season.