With just over a week left before this year’s draft, receiver Makai Lemon is spending time with an AFC East team on Monday.
Per Ian Rapoport of NFL Network, Lemon is visiting with the Dolphins.
Lemon, who played his college ball at USC, has had several reported pre-draft visits, including the Chiefs, Jets, Giants, and Commanders.
The Dolphins currently have two first-round picks in this year’s draft at No. 11 and No. 30 overall.
Lemon won the Fred Biletnikoff award in 2025 as the most outstanding receiver in college football. He caught 79 passes for 1,156 yards with 11 touchdowns last season.
On the day before his team’s next game, Columbus Aviators coach Ted Ginn Jr. was arrested for DUI.
Via Kierstin Lindkvist of WSYX in Columbus, Ginn was arrested on Saturday afternoon in Tarrant County, Texas. He was released on $1,000 bond.
“We are aware of an incident involving Head Coach Ted Ginn Jr. over the weekend and are in the process of gathering more information,” UFL president & CEO Russ Brandon told WSYX. “Offensive coordinator Todd Haley will handle the head coaching duties for the Aviators game on Sunday.”
The Aviators face the Dallas Renegades at noon ET on Sunday.
Ginn, who turns 41 tomorrow, was hired to coach the Aviators in December 2025. They have an 0-2 record in the 2026 season.
The former Ohio State star receiver was the ninth overall pick in the 2007 draft. He played for the Dolphins, 49ers, Panthers, Cardinals, Saints, and Bears over the course of a 14-year NFL career.
Free agent cornerback Jack Jones’ visit to the 49ers apparently went well.
Jones, 28, has agreed to terms with the team after his visit to San Francisco today, according to multiple reports.
He spent last season in Miami, starting all 17 games for the Dolphins and playing 980 defensive snaps. He totaled 77 tackles, an interception, six pass breakups and two forced fumbles.
The Patriots made Jones a fourth-round pick in 2022, and he moved on to the Raiders after New England waived him in November 2023.
He had 136 tackles, seven interceptions, four interception return touchdowns, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery before getting to Miami.
Jones has appeared in 59 games with 38 starts in his career.
It’s a busy time for receiver KC Concepcion, who is expected to be one of the top wideouts to come off the board in this year’s draft.
Per Ian Rapoport of NFL Network, Concepcion is taking a pre-draft visit with the Dolphins on Thursday.
Miami currently holds the No. 11 and No. 30 overall picks in the first round of the 2026 draft.
Concepcion was with the Browns on Wednesday.
While Concepcion recently underwent a procedure to have his knee scoped, he is expected to be ready for rookie minicamp.
In his one season with Texas A&M in 2025, Concepcion caught 61 passes for 919 yards with nine touchdowns. He previously spent two seasons with N.C. State, catching 71 passes for 839 yards with 10 touchdowns in 2023 and 53 passes for 460 yards with six TDs in 2024.
The new regime in Miami, which came from Green Bay, made a beeline for Packers backup quarterback Malik Willis in free agency. Now that the Dolphins have opened their offseason program, new coach (and former Packers defensive coordinator) Jeff Hafley had a message for Willis.
“I had a great conversation with him yesterday,” Hafley told reporters on Tuesday, “he came to [the] office. I said, ‘Don’t change who you are.’ I said, ‘Don’t put any extra pressure on yourself. You’ve earned the right to be here and have this opportunity, and you’ve done that by doing all the things the right way — don’t change that. Don’t press, just be you.’
“And I want to make sure that he understands that. It doesn’t have to be perfect. There’s going to be mistakes made, but I want him to play with that confidence and I want him to play the way he’s always done it.”
Willis has played well when his number has been called over the past two seasons. Beyond that, Hafley has been able to study him in practice and elsewhere. He and G.M. Jon-Eric Sullivan (a former Packers exec) had much more to go on than the film of his games with the Packers. The fact that they moved quickly to sign him shows that they believe in him.
That makes it easier to believe that the Dolphins could be in the early stages of turning the team around — and perhaps of ending a streak of years without a playoff win that dates back to the 2000 season.
