Miami Dolphins — 2026 season outlook, updated Oct 14, 2026.
Miami Dolphins finished the 2026 season 0-5.
Miami Dolphins: 7-10 regular season.
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By the numbers — 2026
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Dolphins 24, Bengals 31 — Week 5: 217 Rushing Yards, Three Turnovers
Miami lost 31-24 at home to Cincinnati and fell to 0-5 after running for 217 yards and two touchdowns, while Malik Willis threw two interceptions to Jordan Battle and was stripped for a third turnover, and Joe Burrow threw four touchdown passes.
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- Camp · Sep 3, 2026
Dolphins Camp — Sep 3: Sullivan Claimed Seven in a Day
Miami claimed seven players off waivers on Monday and signed an eighth, then cut eight men off the 53 it had set twenty-four hours earlier to fit them — a quarterback, two tackles, three defensive backs, a tight end and an edge rusher in; Clelin Ferrell and a seventh-round pick among those out. The eight-defensive-back roster our last episode flagged became nine within a day. The perfect draft-class slate lasted one day too.
- Camp · Aug 31, 2026
Dolphins Camp — Aug 31: McCord In, Ewers Out, a New Room Behind Willis
Miami rebuilt the entire quarterback room behind Malik Willis across cutdown weekend: Quinn Ewers traded to Jacksonville, Cam Miller and Mark Gronowski waived, and Kyle McCord acquired from Green Bay. The beat's shock was elsewhere — linebacker Tyrel Dodson released two days after a six-tackle finale — and the initial 53 carries just eight corners and safeties combined, per one beat accounting.
- Camp · Aug 23, 2026
Dolphins Camp — Aug 23: Willis Takes Seven Sacks in Joint Practice
Malik Willis went 12 of 20 and absorbed seven sacks in a joint practice against the Giants that came with six fights and a benching, then sat out Saturday's 26-3 loss entirely. With Quinn Ewers down with a groin injury, Cam Miller started a game Miami finished with three points — and the front office has worked out quarterbacks without yet signing one.
- Camp · Aug 16, 2026
Miami Dolphins Camp Update — August 16: The Cage Opened and Malik Willis Scrambled
One live series, 14 plays, a touchdown, and the pocket-only restriction lifted on schedule — Willis's audition produced exactly the film it needed. Behind him, the backups completed 4 of 19 with three interceptions, and the front office may go shopping for a veteran.
- Camp · Aug 9, 2026
Miami Dolphins Camp Update — August 9: Malik Willis Isn't Allowed to Scramble Yet
The audition is producing real film: arm talent the beat keeps noticing, defenders talking about the conflict he creates — and a coaching staff deliberately caging the legs to force the pocket answer. The 45-million-dollar information purchase is gathering information on schedule.
- 2026 Preview
Miami Dolphins 2026 Season Preview — The $99 Million Goodbye
Miami paid a record cap charge to release its quarterback, traded its best receiver, and handed the offense to a six-start QB — the teardown is total, the price is the lowest in football, and one running back is the whole show.
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- Week 4
Dolphins 10, Vikings 15 — Week 4: Four Sacks, Seventeen Throws
Miami lost 15-10 at Minnesota to fall to 0-4. A pass defense that had allowed plus 0.48 expected points a pass play over the first three weeks held the Vikings to minus 0.7 on 41 and took its first four sacks of the season, while Malik Willis threw 17 times for 85 yards and Ollie Gordon II ran 9 times for 100 and the only touchdown.
- Week 3
Dolphins 10, Chiefs 24 — Week 3: Run Defense Holds, the Rest Doesn't
Miami lost 24-10 at home to Kansas City to fall to 0-3, with a run defense that held the Chiefs to minus 6.2 expected points on 25 rush plays, a fumble at the Kansas City 28 overturned on review, a touchdown wiped out by an illegal shift, and 3 failed fourth-down plays.
- Week 2
Dolphins 13, 49ers 35 — Week 2: Inside the Ten Twice, Six Points
Miami lost 35-13 at San Francisco on Sunday after running 12 red-zone snaps without a touchdown, settling for two short field goals and a missed 51-yarder on its first three drives, and fielding the least effective pass defense of the 28 teams that have played Week 2, plus 23.3 expected points allowed on 22 pass plays.
- Week 1
Dolphins 13, Raiders 27 — Week 1: No Passing Touchdowns, Five Sacks
Miami lost in Las Vegas twenty-seven to thirteen and never led. The passing game produced no touchdowns, took five sacks, and succeeded on eleven of thirty-two pass plays, the second-worst rate of the week; after halftime it was three of eighteen, and in the fourth quarter one of thirteen. The defense took the ball away twice, and the offense turned those two takeaways and a seventy-nine-yard kickoff return into one touchdown, a missed kick and a punt.
- Week 3 · What Repeats
Dolphins, Week 3 — What Repeats: The Fifth Rusher Stayed Home
One week after sending five or more pass rushers on half of San Francisco's dropbacks, Miami sent five or more on 3 of Kansas City's 25, 12 percent, the lowest rate in the league this week, while facing the most play-action of any defense for a second straight week and allowing 21 catchable balls on 24 throws; on offense Malik Willis was contested on 14 of 36 throws, second in the league, and the run game stayed under last season's yards per carry for a third week.
- Week 2 · What Repeats
Dolphins, Week 2 — What Repeats: Every Dial Turned Back Up
One week after turning every charting dial down, Miami put a man in motion on 53 of 75 charted plays and ran screens on 5 of 28 dropbacks, both the highest rates of Week 2, while the quarterback and the run game stayed under last season's marks: 65 percent catchable, two sacks charted on the passer again, and 3.5 yards per designed run despite lighter boxes.
- Week 1 · What Repeats
Dolphins, Week 1 — What Repeats: Willis Threw Twelve Uncatchable
The charting from Las Vegas says 15 of Malik Willis's 27 throws were catchable, 56 percent, 29th of 32 offenses in Week 1 against 72 percent for this offense across all of last season, with play-action on 5 of 37 dropbacks — half last year's rate — while Miami's defense showed the Raiders a light box on 3 of 33 designed runs, the heaviest treatment any run game got this week.
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