Malik Washington Camp Update — August 31: The Receiver Room Thinned in His Favor
2026 NFL Season · Monday, Aug 31
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.
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Malik Washington made the initial 53-man roster Miami announced Sunday, one of seven receivers, per Grace O'Donnell on the team's official site — and the story is what happened to everyone around him. In six days the room lost Tutu Atwell, traded to the Rams on Thursday per Adam Schefter's reporting via Sports Illustrated; Terrace Marshall Jr. and Jalen Reagor, released Sunday; Donaven McCulley, waived Sunday; Theo Wease Jr., waived Saturday, all per the team's announcements and transaction wire; and Tahj Washington, waived the previous Tuesday and signed by the Eagles within a day, per Alain Poupart at Dolphins On SI. The seven who remain skew young: rookies Chris Bell and Kevin Coleman Jr. both made it, and Ryan Miller arrived as a waiver claim from the Giants. The detail that says the most: Marshall led Miami's receivers with 49 yards in Friday's finale, per O'Donnell — and was released two days later.
Washington himself has no recorded snap in the 17-to-12 finale loss to Atlanta. Neither does Malik Willis. That is an absence of mention across three reachable recaps, not a reported inactive — but it extends the pattern from last week, when he rested with the starters while the rest of the room played for jobs. So the answer to last week's watch item — whether Washington and Willis would get a drive together against Atlanta — is that no reachable account records one, and the answer to whether the room beneath him would get trimmed toward clarity is emphatically yes. The evaluation period ended with the room younger and thinner in veteran competition than it was a week ago.
For anyone new to this file: the June read said every wideout who out-targeted Washington in Miami last season is gone, leaving the biggest target vacancy in football — his own line last season, by our numbers, was 46 catches for 317 yards on 65 targets across 17 games — and the room around him is now younger and thinner in veteran competition than it was in June. With Atwell, Marshall and Reagor also gone since, the vacancy is wider than when we first described it. The question the whole spring has pointed at — who Willis throws to when it counts — is still unanswered by a single meaningful rep, and only real games can answer it now. We'll check in again as the opener approaches.
_Data via nflverse._
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