he Miami Dolphins keep trying to find hidden gems for their offensive line, with two more young players joining the team Tuesday.T he team announced the signing of tackles Roy Mbaeteka and Kadeem Telfort to the practice squad. Telfort is a former undrafted free agent who played 16 games with the Green Bay Packers last season after spending 2023 on the team's practice squad.He was among Green Bay's final roster cuts when teams got down to the 53-player limit in late August. Mbaeteka, meanwhile, is a native of Nigeria who's a longtime participant in the International Player Pathway Program and therefore allows the Dolphins to go beyond the 16-player limit on the practice squad. After first joining the New York Giants in 2022, Mbaeteka most recently was part of the Arizona Cardinals practice squad before he was released in early September. He spent one season on the Giants practice squad and then moved to the Chicago Bears in 2023 and Cleveland Browns in 2024. The Dolphins' one international exemption this year figured to go to Dominican tackle Bayron Matos, but he was waived-injured after sustaining a head/neck injury early in training camp. The Dolphins also had Brazilian guard Durval Queiroz Neto on the practice squad for three seasons (2019-21), but he never appeared in a regular season game. Telfort clearly is the most likely of the two to get elevated for a game should the need arise. THE FULL PRACTICE SQUAD The Dolphins didn't have to make a corresponding move on the practice squad to accommodate the two offensive linemen because they already had a spot available. Another spot will be created when kicker Riley Patterson is signed to the 53-man roster, which hasn't happened yet but is planned, according to head coach Mike McDaniel. Telfort and Mbaeteka became the third and fourth offensive linemen on the practice squad, joining guards Braeden Daniels and Josh Priebe. Here's the full practice squad rundown: RB Jeff Wilson Jr. RB JaMycal Hasty WR Theo Wease Jr. WR A.J. Henning TE Hayden Rucci TE Greg Dulcich OL Josh Priebe OL Braeden Daniels OL Kadeem Telfort OL Roy Mbaeteka* DT Alex Huntley LB Quinton Bell LB Derrick McLendon CB Isaiah Johnson S Jordan Colbert S John Saunders Jr. K Riley Patterson *-International player
Imagine if you will, wiping your butt with your right hand…all of your life. Day in and day out when it came to wiping, Mr Rightie was there to do a great job. Then, out of the blue, no more. You now have to wipe your butt with your left hand. Yikes! Could you do it? Sure you could but why would you. Now I know what all of you are asking right about now, “WTF TDK, what are you talking about?” Well, when it come to building an OL, the Dolphins are great at making you wipe your butt with your left hand. A lot of us were ecstatic when Miami draft Jonah Savaiinaea. FINALLY the Dolphins draft a STUD offensive lineman but WTF Miami? Savaiinaea, with the rare exception of a snap here or there on the left side of the center played his entire college career at…RIGHT GUARD. So what do we do? “Yea, we know you play right guard but we want you to play left guard instead. Sure it’s completely backwards but having you play at right guard makes too much sense” Now I’m being a smart a$$ about this because my faith in Miami DEVELOPING young talent on the line with these signings is meager at best.
Given that James Daniels played his first three seasons at LG, its not like that side is foreign to him either.
And I read somewhere that while Sev played his 1st two years on the Right, his last year he almost split the reps between both sides.
It’s what we repeatedly do and are shocked it never works. The one guy it actually worked with actually left, Liam Eichenberg, Michael Deiter, Jesse Davis, Austin Jackson, Robert Hunt (got paid by a team that values ol).
