RB Brown may be close to taking off Dolphins jersey

Having spent all the past five seasons with the Miami Dolphins, restricted free agent running back Ronnie Brown will possibly have to kiss bye his NO. 23 Dolphins jersey soon as the team is seriously considering trading him for a mid-level draft pick. And things could happen within a couple of days as Thursday is the deadline of free agent signing.


Brown was drafted by the Dolphins in 2005 as a first round pick and has had 928 rushes for 4081 yards and 31 touchdowns, with 648 rushing yards and 8 touchdowns last season. He was also selected to Pro Bowl last year. However the Dolphins still remove him from the team’s long-term plan when he became a restricted free agent in the early offseason. They offered him a first-round tender but Brown has yet to sign the offer sheet. The major reason for Dolphins to do so is that they want to trade the running back for something before he loses value completely with another injury. A mid-level draft pick is not a good price for Brown at all but it is better than nothing that they may get when Brown has to be cut instead of to be traded.

At age 28, Brown is oft-injured. If not because of the injuries, the Dolphins would no way give up a good running back as Brown. When healthy, he is one of the best backs in the league with a powerful combination of strength and speed. However, during his six-year career, he did not finish any but one season and has had three serious injuries. Some even doubt that his body will not hold up much longer. However, he is still has his value to some teams. After all, he still managed to be the most productive player in Dolphins jersey and the team’s staple on the offense line.

Dolphins LB Taylor is not in hurry to return

According to reports by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the Miami Dolphins linebacker Jason Taylor will be out for at least three months after undergoing an arthroscopic shoulder surgery and it may take longer before he could wear back NFL jerseys to resume normal workouts.

35-year-old Taylor is scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent on March 5, but it doesn’t appear he’ll be signing anywhere soon. According to his agent, Gary Wichard, Taylor will be sidelined “three months or so,” putting his return sometime in May — the period in which most teams conduct organized team activities.

Although it is still uncertain whether Taylor could remain a Dolphins linebacker, he has said that he wants to return for his 14th NFL season in Miami. By so far the Dolphins team officials have not shown any intention of retaining Taylor.

Dolphins WR White sustained head injury while playing against Steelers

Before the Miami Dolphins lost their season finale to the Pittsburgh Steelers, rookie quarterback Pat White left the field in the third quarter after sustaining a scary head injury because of a chilling helmet-helmet collision with a cornerback in Steelers jersey.


White landed on his stomach after the collision in the third quarter, and Steelers players immediately began waving for help. White was able to move his arms and legs and talk before being carted off the field to go to a hospital for examination. And Coach Tony Sparano said following the 30-24 loss that information by that time showed the rookie was doing fine and air rescue was canceled.

White began the third quarter as the replacement to starter Chad Henne, who was sidelined because of blurred vision. After White departed with 2 minutes left in the third quarter, Tyler Thigpen took over to make his first appearance for the Dolphins.

Confirmed: Dolphins RB Brown will not play against Panthers Thursday night

As the Miami Dolphins running back Ronnie Brown has been ruled out for Thursday night’s game against the Carolina Panthers, his injured right foot also made his status for the rest of the regular season uncertain.


According to Coach Tony Sparano, the team’s leader rusher needed to see a specialist for further evaluation, and it is hard to say when he could wear back his Dolphins jersey. Ricky Williams will start at running back in Brown’s absence. Then the Thursday’s game will be Brown’s first missed game since his season-ending knee injury in 2007, and Williams’ first start for this season.

And 32-year-old Williams is the right replacement to Brown, as the 1998 Heisman Trophy winner and 2002 NFL rushing champion has rushed for 558 yards and is averaging a career-best 5.3 yards per carry. Also, he is confident that he will do the starting job well on Thursday.

Dolphins RB Brown will stay on crutches for quite a few days

The Miami Dolphins did not become the second team being beaten by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but they won Sunday’s game at the cost of running back Ronnie Brown, who injured his right ankle in the third quarter of Sunday’s game.

Brown watched the end of Dolphins’ 25-23 win in the locker room after limping off the field with assistance from teammates. He might feel fortunate that his lost fumble before leaving field did not result in significant drop. But not being part of the winning team was still something frustrating.


“I kind of rolled my foot to the inside,” he said. “It’s tough coming out of the game. Fortunately we were able to get a W. I just don’t like being on the sidelines.”

He was replaced by Ricky Williams who ran for a season-high 102 yards for the remaining of the game. And Brown ran for 82 yards and a touchdown before leaving field still wearing his Dolphins jersey. The Dolphins’ leading rusher this season will have some tests to determine how long he will have to stay on crutches.

Dolphins WR Ginn in danger of losing starting job

During the Miami Dolphins Thursday practice, head coach Tony Sparano did not let quarterback Ted Ginn Jr. practice with the first or second teams as he usually did. It seemed that he was trying other quarterbacks to see who will probably be the best replacement to the current starter.

Sparano had Dovone Bess, Greg Camarillo and even Brian Hartline, who is yet wearing NFL jersey for the first year, taking turns to get a look at them. Having been unhappy with Ginn’s performance for the season, the coach seemed to plan to move the starter a few rungs down on the depth chart.

"We'll see where we are at the end of the week,'' Sparano said to the paper. "Right now, I'm just upsetting the whole apple cart to see how this thing goes."

Even though Ginn is still the official starting quarterback for the Miami Dolphins, it seemed he is near in losing the job unless he shows obvious improvement on this Sunday night while playing against the New York Jets.

Three injured Dolphins defenders returned to practice Thursday

After sitting out Wednesday, the Miami Dolphins linebackers Joey Porter and Akin Ayodele and defensive end Phillip Merling retured to practice Thursday, with all of the three wearing protective pads.


Porter had been sitting out for nearly two weeks and missed last Sunday’s win over the Buffalo Bills with a sore right hamstring, Merling left field in the fourth quarter of the same game for hurting his left ankle, and Ayodele had been sidelined with a sore back. The three joined team practice in preparation for the game against the New York Jets on next Monday night.

“Whenever you’re hurt, you realize how much you really miss the game,” Porter said after the practice. “To go out there to run around with the guys and put my pads back on definitely feels better than it did sitting on the sideline watching.”

It seemed that the three injured defenders were eager to return to field. Although they were limited in the practice, they still did a good amount of work.

The Williams sisters to own a stake in the Dolphins

Following musicians Gloria and Emilio Estefan and Marc Anthony and singer Jimmy Buffett, the Williams sisters will become the latest celebrities to own a stake in the Miami Dolphins.

The Williams sisters, who live in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., have combined to win 18 Grand Slam titles. Their joining the Dolphins will be announced at the team’s training complex next Tuesday. The event is scheduled to be hosted on Thursday by owner Stephen Ross as a “major corporate announcement”. No sure whether the sisters will wear nfl jerseys at the event.

This offseason there has been lot of news about famous people joining NFL, and I guess that means more than share of partnership. NFL owners obviously know will about the celebrity effect and has been trying to earn more by forging partnership with them.