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Marcel Louis-Jacques
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — The Miami Dolphins and defensive sort out Zach Sieler agreed to a three-year extension Sunday, his brokers instructed ESPN’s Adam Schefter, that makes him the crew’s highest-paid defensive participant.
The extension is value as much as $67.75 million, $44 million of which is assured; the $22.5 million common annual worth greater than doubles his present AAV.
Sieler signed a three-year, $30 million extension in the summertime of 2023. He has recorded back-to-back 10-sack seasons for the Dolphins. Nevertheless, he was the NFL’s Twenty ninth-highest-paid defensive sort out when it comes to AAV, simply forward of Cleveland Browns rookie Mason Graham.
Sieler missed the crew’s voluntary OTA practices however was an energetic participant in necessary minicamp and the primary 10 days of coaching camp.
A crew captain, Sieler stated that whereas a brand new contract was necessary to him, so was being on the sphere together with his teammates.
“Everybody’s their very own human. They’ll deal with issues how they need,” Sieler stated final month. “That is how I select to deal with it, however I hope the message that places out there’s that, at finish of the day, we’re right here to play soccer. Now clearly that stuff’s essential to me — the respect and the cash that my household will get and makes from this recreation. We give all of it on the road each single day, and I’ll proceed to try this day-after-day.
“However to have the ability to go on the market and work regardless of every little thing, I believe I am making an attempt to indicate you can go on the market and play your finest ball and nonetheless work via stuff with out having to compartmentalize issues.”
Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel lauded Sieler for persevering with to indicate up via his contract negotiations.
Because the crew makes an attempt to reestablish a tradition of accountability, McDaniel stated Sieler’s efforts haven’t gone unnoticed.
“I believe you outline your self by your actions, most of all in life,” McDaniel stated on July 25. “I am very conscious that every one gamers have a alternative in what they do on a day-to-day foundation, particularly with Zach, and his actions communicate — and I believe his teammates very a lot acknowledge how Zach Sieler performs soccer and contributes to the constructing day-after-day. And I believe Zach has a imaginative and prescient of a crew that I share and he understands as a frontrunner, he is making an attempt to indicate guys how he desires teammates to play soccer and I am excited each time I see Zach Sieler.”
A former Ferris State walk-on, Sieler was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens within the seventh spherical in 2018 however was waived the next yr; the Dolphins claimed him the following day.
After recording 9 sacks in his first three seasons with Miami, Sieler has led the Dolphins in sacks with 10 throughout every of the previous two campaigns.
For the reason that begin of the 2023 season, solely Baltimore’s Nnamdi Madubuike has extra quarterback hits than Sieler’s 41.
