Dolphins Adding Veteran Safety

   

The Miami Dolphins' roster building for the 2024 season indeed was not done.

Dolphins Adding Veteran Safety

The team had agreed to terms with veteran safety Marcus Maye, according to NFL reporter Jordan Schultz.

Maye has started all 77 games he has played during his seven-year NFL career, which includes five seasons with the New York Jets and the past two with the New Orleans Saints.

With the Saints in 2023, Maye was limited to seven games because of a three-game league suspension for violating the league's substance-abuse policy and because of a shoulder injury.

In those seven games, Maye came up with two interceptions, matching his career high and giving him eight for his career.

Maye played all 16 games three times in his five seasons with the Jets before he went to New Orleans when he signed a three-year deal as an unrestricted free agent in 2022.

HOW MAYE FITS IN THE DOLPHINS SECONDARY

The addition of Maye should solidify the secondary, which already added veterans Jordan Poyer and Kendall Fuller in the offseason.

The safety position was a bit thing even after the addition of Poyer, though, and Maye even could end up challenging Poyer for the starting job next to Jevon Holland.

Along with those three, the Dolphins safeties include Elijah Campbell, potentially slot cornerback Nik Needham in a position change, rookie sixth-round pick Patrick McMorris and rookie free agent Mark Perry.

Maye will become the first veteran signed by the Dolphins since wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. early last month.