The Dolphins have agreed to sign Ereck Flowers, according to ESPN.com’s Adam Schefter (on Twitter). Once finalized, it’ll be a three-year deal worth $30MM with $19.5MM fully guaranteed.
Flowers, who floundered in his early years with the Giants, was not expected to find free agent riches at the outset of the offseason. However, the dearth of quality offensive line help around the league bolstered his market tremendously. Lately, we’ve heard rumors that Flowers could fetch $10MM/year on his next deal. That was indeed the case, and the Dolphins will be the team to pay out that contract.
Last year, Flowers earned $3.25MM with the Redskins. Playing at guard, Flowers started in all 16 games and surprised many with his performance. After the Redskins locked down Brandon Scherff and the Patriots took Joe Thuney off of the market with a surprise franchise tag, Flowers was looking better than ever to teams in need of interior help.
The deal brings the Miami native and former Hurricane back to his old stomping grounds. Meanwhile, the Dolphins get a talented lineman who – in theory – could offer support at multiple positions.
Suckers
Yeah, they’ve never actually seen Flowers play.
Wow
Just wow
That is a dolphins move if I’ve ever seen one
As a Giants fan all I can say is SUCKERS!!
How on earth can you give this guy 30 million
This deal screams playing anywhere from LG to RT and improves the line without putting all our money into one player
Flowers can’t play tackle in the NFL. Ask the Giants if you don’t believe me.
What a waste of money. One of the biggest Giants draft failures.
Turned out he’s actually a talented guard. Callahan likely had a lot to do with that.