Dolphins turn to a familiar face to reload their most unsettled position room after a season-ending injury fear is confirmed
The highly scrutinized cornerback room of the Miami Dolphins is set to welcome a new face on Thursday. The Dolphins' cornerbacks have been under the microscope all offseason, and that includes before the team ultimately decided to trade cornerback Jalen Ramsey to Pittsburgh a few weeks ago. One of the team's few veteran players in […]
The highly scrutinized cornerback room of the Miami Dolphins is set to welcome a new face on Thursday. The Dolphins' cornerbacks have been under the microscope all offseason, and that includes before the team ultimately decided to trade cornerback Jalen Ramsey to Pittsburgh a few weeks ago.
One of the team's few veteran players in the room, Artie Burns, went down on Wednesday with an injury at Miami's first training camp practice of the season, suffering what is now confirmed to be a torn ACL.
It didn't take Miami long to find a new name for the room, although this signing is certainly not the one fans of the team have been asking for in recent weeks.
The Dolphins agree to sign free agent cornerback Cornell Armstrong
The team has reportedly shown interest in a number of veteran options on the free agent market throughout the course of this offseason, but has yet to come to terms on a deal with any of them. Names like Rasul Douglas and Asante Samuel Jr. have been affiliated with the team but, for now, the Dolphins are settling on a hedge of the role that Burns was likely best suited to fill.
It will be Cornell Armstrong's latest stint in Miami. The Dolphins were the team who drafted Armstrong back in 2018 and, as a rookie, he played nearly 300 special teams snaps for Miami. It's been a long and winding journey for him ever since, with the veteran defender pin-balling around the league with stops with the Houston Texans (2019-2020), the Atlanta Falcons (2021-2022), and the Las Vegas Raiders (2023).
This signing by the Dolphins seems to insinuate they're continuing to buy in on the youth of their secondary and instead are simply looking for competitors with experience and special teams backgrounds. That was the likely pathway for Artie Burns and will also be the most viable pathway for Armstrong, too.
Whether or not there's a bigger shoe to drop in the secondary for Miami is yet to be determined. But the longer this process plays out without adding any new pieces, the more likely it would seem that the Dolphins are prepared to go to battle with this nucleus of secondary defenders in place. For now, it's time to welcome Cornell Armstrong back to South Florida and see what he can do.
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