The Dolphins have been noncommittal about wide receiver Mike Wallace’s future with the team since he ended the 2014 season on the bench after a spat with the team’s coaching staff.
Executive vice president of football operations Mike Tannenbaum is remaining that way in the face of a report that the team is shopping Wallace to other teams in hopes of making a trade. Tannenbaum wouldn’t comment on that report from Ian Rapoport of NFL Media during a Thursday appearance on SiriusXM NFL Radio and he didn’t offer much more while being interviewed on WINZ in Miami.
“For now, Mike’s under contract. We’ll see where we go from there,” Tannenbaum said, via Dave Hyde of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
Wallace is set to make $9.9 million in 2015 in the third year of a deal that runs through 2017, which would make him tough to deal if he weren’t also coming off two years of underwhelming on-field performance punctuated by off-field discontent. Armando Salguero of the Miami Herald reports that the team has also discussed asking Wallace to take a pay cut or just releasing him, something that would leave a healthy chunk of dead money on their cap for 2015.
Whatever route it takes, Salguero adds that his best guess is that Wallace isn’t playing for Miami in 2015. Based on Tannenbaum’s phrasing, that doesn’t sound like a bad guess at all.
