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Long-time Miami Dolphins starters Bobby McCain and Jesse Davis have found new teams for the 2024 season

Alain Poupart

Safety Bobby McCain (28) before a Miami Dolphins game against the San Francisco 49ers at Levi's Stadium during the 2020 season.
Safety Bobby McCain (28) before a Miami Dolphins game against the San Francisco 49ers at Levi's Stadium during the 2020 season. / Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports
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It's common in these still-early stages of training camp around the NFL for veterans to find work with new teams, and two such examples over recent days involve former Miami Dolphins players.

Safety Bobby McCain will be joining the Minnesota Vikings and former Dolphins head coach Brian Flores, per reports, after offensive lineman Jesse Davis signed with the New Orleans Saints over the weekend.

McCAIN REJOINS FLORES

McCain had been in the NFC East since leaving the Dolphins during the 2021 offseason, spending two seasons in Washington before he played with the New York Giants in 2023.

A fifth-round pick in 2015, one of four in that round for the Dolphins that year, McCain spent six seasons with Miami with 55 starts and seven career interceptions.

McCain's last two years in Miami were the first two for Flores as head coach, and it was Flores who permanently moved him from cornerback to safety.

McCain will be looking for a rebound season with Flores in Minnesota after he failed to start a game in 2023 for the first time in his career.

As for Davis, he's coming off a 2023 season where he spent most of the year on the practice squad with the San Francisco 49ers and appeared in only one game. Before that, he appeared in 14 games as a backup with the Pittsburgh Steelers, who acquired him in a trade with the Minnesota Vikings before the start of the 2022 regular season.

After joining the Dolphins off the New York Jets practice squad in 2017, Davis started 72 games in five seasons with Miami, including making all but three starts in his final three years.

REMAINING DOLPHINS FREE AGENTS

While McCain and Davis found new teams, almost a dozen players who ended the 2023 season on the Dolphins roster remain free agents as the second week of training camp kicks off.

The most notable obviously is cornerback Xavien Howard. The others are OLB Melvin Ingram, OLB Justin Houston, OLB Bruce Irvin, CB Keion Crossen, C Connor Williams, CB Justin Bethel, TE Tyler Kroft, WR Robbie Chosen, CB Eli Apple and C Jonotthan Harrison.

Williams made a free agent visit with the Seattle Seahawks last week but didn't sign.

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Alain Poupart

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.

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