I mean, I know we were around top 5 last season, but we switched out Dansby and Burnett for younger linebackers and essentially replaced Bess/Fasano with Wallace/Keller, who are both younger.
We have 2 guys on our roster right now 30 or over. TWO. And one of them is the long snapper. The other is Cam Wake.
Exciting times in Miami!
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heading into free agency we had the 6h youngest team in the NFL with an average age of 25.62 years old. St.Louis Rams were the youngest team at that time with an average age of 25.4 years old.
Team with the oldest roster in the NFL heading into free agency was the Chargers averaging 26.86 years old. The entire NFL has gotten younger in the last 3 years.305, NolesNPhinsFan and Rocky Raccoon like this. -
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Like I said, that was heading into free agency in 2013. The average age difference, from youngest team to oldest team has not moved from a little more then 2 years difference in quite a long time. When final rosters are made up thats when you get a clearer picture but still, the difference between youngest and oldest is not going to be much greater on average then 2 years. The new rookie wage scale was supposed to help vets but they were sold a bunch of crap and the teams are grabbing the younger cheaper guys.
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Heres the average age difference in 2010, hit the link. Not much different
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There should be a ranking on age of STARTERS.
Cause the steelers, with big ben, polomalu, ike taylor, ryan clark, brett keisel, larry foote, heath miller, jerricho cothery, all over 30, are pretty damn old.
of their 22 starters, 8 of them are over 30. Which is 36%.
of our 22 starters, 1 of them is over 30. (5%)dolfan32323, Boik14, infiltrateib and 1 other person like this. -
I guess there are so many players on a roster that in the end, the difference is barely worth recognizing.
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We went into free agency as the sixth youngest, we swapped two thirty year olds for Ellerbe and wheeler who are not, add our draft picks where 6 or 7 should make the team, were gonna be the youngest I would imagine..
I really like that..we might be young, but we are fast.....kinda like our new dolphin.Rocky Raccoon likes this. -
http://www.thephins.com/forums/showthread.php?75605-being-the-youngest-team
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Based on the current roster listed on the Dolphins official web site our current average player age is 25.15
I had to look up the DOB for Don Jones(23 in two weeks) & Jamar Taylor(22) because they haven't been updated yet.
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I think we also have to wait until we've made the fall cuts before seeing which team is the youngest now. If the unthinkable were to happen and they cut every single draft choice, that would bump up the average age a good bit. I'm just happy to be excited about Dolphins football for the first time in about a decade. It feels like this team is finally moving forward.
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In regards to Cam Wake, LOL, no problem. The dude is cut and fit as a 25 year old. Incognito is 29 and again, fit as a 25 year old so those being our two oldest guys ( with exception of our long snapper) we are in great shape. These days, barring injury, players can go into their early 30s and still be very good players if they take care of themselves. This is what ruined Vernon. If some remember I put up, many times, VERNON CAREY HAS LEFT THE BUILDING, there was good reason for that and most of it had to do with his off season regiment of doing basically nothing and eating anything that was in arms length and not giving two Sh&*ts about it. Kid could have played another 5 years, and no, his knee issues were not the real thing holding him back. It was his brain cells. Vernon Carey has not seen a casino he does not like. -
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