The Chiefs parted ways with a pair of cornerbacks this week when they traded Trent McDuffie to the Rams and Jaylen Watson followed him to the NFC West club as a free agent, but Thursday found them starting to replenish the depth chart.
Agents David Canter and Ness Mugrabi told Marcel Louis-Jacques of ESPN that their client Kader Kohou has agreed to terms with the Chiefs.
Kohou missed the entire 2025 season after tearing his ACL during Dolphins training camp. He started 38 games over his first three seasons in Miami and had 180 tackles, three interceptions, a sack, two forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries.
Kristian Fulton, Nohl Williams and Chris Roland-Wallace are also part of a cornerback group that should see more additions over the course of the offseason.
Malik Willis has only thrown 155 passes over the course of his NFL career, but the last 89 of them came in front of Dolphins head coach Jeff Hafley and General Manager Jon-Eric Sullivan and they helped convince Miami to sign him to a three-year contract this week.
Willis delivered most of those passes in three Packers starts — Hafley and Sullivan were in Green Bay before being hired this January — in place of Jordan Love and his success in that role gives Willis a shot at a longer stay in the starting lineup. Willis’s first chance in that role came with the Titans as a rookie and his results were not as good as they were the last two years.
Willis was asked at a Thursday press conference about waiting for another chance in that role and why he thinks he’s better suited for it this time.
“I don’t think I put a timeline on it,” Willis said, via Omar Kelly of the Miami Herald. “It happened when I was prepared. I think when I came into the league I wasn’t prepared. That’s not a knock towards my coaches or myself, that’s just what it was coming from the system I came from. I’ve had a chance to learn the last four years since I’ve been in the league — been through four different offenses, seen a bunch of different defenses and think I’ve grown a lot. Grateful for the opportunity once again.”
The Dolphins are betting that Willis’s production will translate from a sample size to a full serving well enough to make him the latest quarterback to blossom after making multiple moves around the league.
The Dolphins announced that they’ve re-signed three players on Thursday and they also agreed to terms with an addition to the roster.
Jeremy Fowler of ESPN reports that defensive lineman Robert Beal is set to sign a one-year deal. Beal was not tendered as a restricted free agent by the 49ers.
Beal had 14 tackles in seven games last season and he had 22 tackles and a sack in 18 games over his first two seasons.
The Dolphins have also re-signed defensive lineman Matthew Butler, linebacker Willie Gay, and kicker Riley Patterson. Butler had 12 tackles in 12 games last season while Gay recorded 18 in his 17 appearances. Patterson was 27-of-29 on field goals after being signed to replace the injured Jason Sanders last year.
The Cardinals released quarterback Kyler Murray the moment the clock struck 4:00 p.m. ET on Wednesday to start the new league year. The Dolphins at least slept on it before cutting the cord on quarterback Tua Tagovailoa.
Tagovailoa was released on Thursday morning.
Not that they had a decision to make with the benefit of some beauty rest. Or that they needed to dump his salary for cap purposes. By using the post-June 1 designation, he’ll remain on the books at his current salary until June 1.
Per the team, Tua’s 2026 option bonus was exercised prior to his release. That reduces the 2026 dead-money charge from $67.4 million to $55.2 million, and it increases the 2027 charge from $31.8 million to $43.8 million. It adds up to a record $99.2 million in cap charges over the next two years — due in large part to the fact that the Dolphins owe him $54 million this year.
That’s the better way to handle it. With the cap going up every year, the 2027 cap dollars will have a smaller relative impact than they’d have in 2026.
Regardless, one of the worst contracts in recent history, if not ever, has been terminated. The Dolphins, who were bidding against no one, gave Tua a market-level deal while he had a year left on his first-round rookie contract. It’s enough to justify firing former G.M. Chris Grier again, frankly.
Tua is now free to sign with anyone. He’s expected to agree to terms with the Falcons. There’s no reason to do anything other than a one-year, $1.3 million deal, with the Dolphins paying the $52.7 million balance.
The Dolphins made a big splash by agreeing to sign quarterback Malik Willis in the early hours of free agency on Monday and they moved on to filling out the rest of the roster on Wednesday.
According to various reports, the Dolphins have agreed to terms with edge rusher Joshua Uche, cornerback Alex Austin, tight end Ben Sims and defensive back Lonnie Johnson.
Uche had 23 tackles and a sack in 12 games for the Eagles in 2025. The 2020 Patriots second-rounder has 21.5 career sacks.
Austin saw time in the Patriots’ secondary over the last three seasons and posted 31 tackles and an interception. Sims saw time with the Packers and Vikings during the 2025 season and had three catches for 30 yards during his time in Minnesota.
Johnson has played for four teams since entering the league in 2019 and he had 25 tackles in nine games for the Raiders last season.
