"Start waving goodbye. Anyone can go. The new season began Monday for the Miami Dolphins' new regime with the release of Tyreek Hill and Bradley Chubb, two names bigger than the decision to let them go. Hill gave two great years in his four with the Dolphins, but was on the chopping block with a bloated 2026 price even before his nasty knee injury."
"Now it gets tougher. Defining decisions loom for new general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan, ones that will set the course of this season and offer a look into his building philosophy. And, no, this doesn't have anything to do with quarterback Tua Tagovailoa. The only decision there remains how to painfully extricate themselves from his contract. The hammer or the drill?"
"You know how the Dolphins did business the past four years. If a player came to a bad mood to practice, he was given a new contract. Tua, Hill and Jalen Ramsey signed record-setting deals when new deals weren't even necessary. Team owner Steve Ross is still signing checks from that. It's easy to toss money at players. But someone has to protect the organization with fair deals, and that's Sullivan's job now."
The Miami Dolphins released Tyreek Hill and Bradley Chubb to create salary-cap space, saving $22.8 million by cutting Hill and avoiding Chubb's $20.2 million cap hit. Additional moves involving James Daniel and Nick Westbrook-Ikhine nudged the club into positive cap territory. New general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan faces defining decisions that will shape the roster and signal his approach to contracts. The organization still wrestles with how to extricate itself from quarterback Tua Tagovailoa's contract. The team previously awarded record-setting extensions to players such as Tua, Hill and Jalen Ramsey. Protecting the franchise with fair deals now falls to Sullivan, beginning with running back De'Von Achane.
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