Dolphins Sign Eight Players for 2024 Season

The building of the roster for next season has begun

Alain Poupart | Jan 15, 2024

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Right after Miami Dolphins GM Chris Grier discussed the future of prominent players, the team announced the signing of eight players as the building of the 2024 roster begins.

The Dolphins announced they had signed the following players to reserve/future contracts: LB Quinton Bell, CB Ethan Bonner, TE Tanner Conner, T Ryan Hayes, OL Chasen Hines, DT Brandon Pili, WR Braylon Sanders and WR Anthony Schwartz.

All eight players ended the 2023 season on the Dolphins practice squad, with Bonner activated for the playoff game against the Kansas City Chiefs.

Pili actually made the initial 53-man roster as an undrafted rookie free agent from USC before he was waived and re-signed to the practice squad. He appeared in four games.

Besides Pili and Bonner, Conner was the only other one who appeared in a game for the Dolphins this season.

Hayes was the team's seventh-round pick in the 2023 NFL draft and he rejoined the Dolphins after being waived and then signed and cut from the Indianapolis Colts practice squad.

The Dolphins still have exclusive negotiating rights to the other players who finished the season on the practice squad for another nine days, after which those players will become "street free agents."

The other Dolphins practice squad players were: TE Nick Bowers, DT Byron Cowart, DT Justin Ellis, RB Darrynton Evans, CB Parry Nickerson, LB Malik Reed, OL Matt Skura and WR Freddie Swain.

Published Jan 15, 2024

ALAIN POUPART

Alain Poupart is the publisher/editor of All Dolphins and co-host of the All Dolphins Podcast. Alain has covered the Miami Dolphins on a full-time basis since 1989 for various publications and media outlets, including Dolphin Digest, The Associated Press, the Dolphins team website, and the Fan Nation Network (part of Sports Illustrated). In addition to being a credentialed member of the Miami Dolphins press corps, Alain has covered three Super Bowls (for NFL.com, Football News and the Montreal Gazette), the annual NFL draft, the Senior Bowl, and the NFL Scouting Combine. During his almost 40 years in journalism, which began at the now-defunct Miami News, Alain has covered practically every sport at one time or another, from tennis to golf, baseball, basketball and everything in between. The career also included time as a copy editor, including work on several books such as "Still Perfect," an inside look at the Miami Dolphins' 1972 perfect season. A native of Montreal, Canada, whose first language is French, Alain grew up a huge hockey fan but soon developed a love for all sports, including NFL football. He has lived in South Florida since the 1980s.