The Miami Dolphins are in serious danger of losing one of their young superstars. They lost Christian Wilkins this past offseason after failing to come to a contract agreement. In 2025, the Dolphins are in jeopardy of seeing Jevon Holland walk out the door. Holland is going to be the top safety on the market. The 24 year old is represented by David Mulugheta of Athletes First, who also has Wilkins as one of his clients. Mulugheta has notoriously landed his safety clients large contracts, such as Xavier McKinney and Antoine Winfield Jr. His most recent deal was landing Budda Baker a three year, $54 million extension with the Arizona Cardinals. Could the Dolphins look to place the franchise tag on their budding star safety? Joel Corry of CBS Sports believes there's a chance, listing him as a prime candidate to be tagged. The Miami Dolphins let defensive tackle Christian Wilkins test free agency this year because of cap constraints. The same could hold true for safety Jevon Holland. He hasn't done himself any favors with his recent play. Nonetheless, Holland will likely have his sights set on the top of the safety market. The safety tag is worth $18,321,000, which would place Holland fourth among his position in terms of average annual value.
Would not use superstar to define Holland. Now, with that said if Dolphins do not sign him he will go somewhere and become one.
The best possible thing is that he signs a big contract and we get a 3rd round comp pick. He didn't pan out. This is a guy who tackles poorly, takes bad angles, and has 1 INT and 7 PD in the last two and a half years. He's been almost a complete no factor since Week 3 of last year no matter which way you look at it.
I have a bit of a different take…hear me out. Tag Holland. That means the following season, teams will get to essentially bid on him, so this is where Holland is genuinely going to have to shine if he wants that big contract. He’ll play like a rock star, which will only help us and at the end of the 2025 season, we let him go. Or He plays like crap, we still let him go and he’ll have to play for peanuts comparatively for another team. I just think if he’s going to go, give him the incentive to play his a$$ off for another team to overpay him and hinder their own cap situation.
I’m not sure I want to give him even a one year top contract which tagging him would do. The guy is out there making business decisions on a weekly basis. I have no problem with any player getting paid, but you have to earn it. He’s earned ****.
I know that tagging a player gives him 1 year of the average of the top 5 paid players at that position. I learned that from the Wilkins fiasco. But if he’s wanting to get paid paid, he’d have to truly perform. Would he? I don’t know. I think tagging him might send that message. Who knows.
I think if he’s tagged he may play well, get his pay day and then revert back to being lazy. I could be wrong, but he seems to be more about money than team. Wilkins loved money, but he at least played hard and earned it.
lol don’t let the door hit ya on the bootie too bad we didn’t trade him for something Is there a way we can still trade him?
There's a massive risk that it backfires and the Fins are left with a very expensive, mediocre player in a year where they don't have much cap space. Then no compensation when he leaves.
I don’t see how? They tag him, let him play the one year under the franchise tag, someone else signs him for 2026 as a free agent or he’s cut
If he doesnt play well, hed get a small contract and the comp pick, in 2027, would be small if anything. I'd much rather let him walk now in the hopes of getting a 2026 3rd rounder.
A few weeks ago PFF had him and Poyer as 63 and 64 out of 64 safeties in the NFL. Probably still true.
Probably the most overrated player to play in Miami in a very long time. In fact, I'm having a hard time thinking of someone that was more overrated. To be clear, we aren't talking about a player's draft status and how their career ended up. We're talking about a player who at one point in their rookie contract shined but then fizzled like a fart in the wind. Some were calling him the next Ed Reed.
That right there is a key factor in the defense’s poor performance this season, outside of a handful of games. I would imagine that Weaver spends a good amount of time banging his head against the wall because he has to scheme around the black hole of talent/performance at that position.
