Miami Dolphins Sign Melvin Ingram, Another Former Kansas City Chiefs Starter

The signing of Melvin Ingram provides the Miami Dolphins two edge rushers who used to play for the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs.

After bolstering the Chiefs protection down the stretch final yr, Ingram now joins defensive finish Emmanuel Ogbah, who led the Dolphins in sacks the final two years.

Ogban began 4 video games for the Chiefs in 2019 earlier than struggling a season-ending torn pectoral muscle.

And, after all, the Chiefs traded their Professional Bowl large receiver, Tyreek Hill, to the Dolphins this offseason for Miami’s 2022 first-round choose, a 2022 second-round choose, a 2022 fourth-round choose, a 2023 fourth-round choose and a 2023 sixth-round choose.

The Chiefs had deftly ready for the lack of Ingram. By inserting an unrestricted free agent tender on him, the Chiefs have been entitled to a compensatory choose if he signed with one other crew previous to July 22.

His Chiefs tender was a suggestion of $4.4 million (or 10% greater than his 2021 wage).

“It was an concept or idea we talked about,” Chiefs normal supervisor Brett Veach mentioned, “every week or two earlier than the draft.”

Reportedly, the Chiefs doubtless will obtain a sixth- or seventh-round choose for Ingram, whose contract phrases with the Dolphins haven’t been launched.

That choose ought to assist them down the road, however they need to exchange Ingram’s contributions instantly.

Since Ingram’s first recreation with the Chiefs on Nov. 7 of final yr, Kansas Metropolis gained eight of 9 regular-season video games, and the protection went a stretch of 5 straight video games permitting 14 or fewer factors.

Including Ingram allowed the Chiefs’ greatest defensive participant, Chris Jones, to maneuver from defensive finish to his extra pure place at defensive deal with.

Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo lauded Ingram’s ferocity, saying he performed “indignant.”

“I adore it,” Spagnuolo mentioned. “He simply knocks folks round, and I feel that’s contagious.”

The participant, who Travis Kelce referred to as the “swag champ,” made the game-changing play in Week 18 towards the Denver Broncos.

As Denver led 21-20 and had the ball contained in the Chiefs’ 10-yard line within the fourth quarter, Ingram hit working again Melvin Gordon behind the road of scrimmage to power a fumble, which Nick Bolton returned 86 yards for a landing.

Ingram then had two sacks within the playoffs.

The burden of changing Ingram will fall on high-motored rookie George Karlaftis, a participant the Chiefs chosen with the thirtieth general choose — not the first-round choose they obtained within the Hill commerce (and ultimately traded away to maneuver as much as land Trent McDuffie).

An lack of ability to generate a go rush off the sting was a significant challenge final yr for the Chiefs, who completed fourth worst within the NFL with 31 sacks in 2021.

In the meantime, the Dolphins are constructing good depth on the sting, together with Ogbah, Ingram and second-year Jaelan Phillips.

Phillips confirmed nice promise as a rookie, recording 8.5 sacks. His presence doubtless will enable the 33-year-old Ingram to have extra spot obligation the place he can stay recent.

Ingram confirmed he might nonetheless convey it final yr whereas offering nice worth for the Chiefs.

The Chiefs acquired him on Nov. 2 for only a sixth-round choose from the Pittsburgh Steelers, and the Steelers paid the vast majority of his one-year, $4 million deal for the 2021 season.

Ogbah was additionally a steal for the Dolphins.

They signed him away from the Chiefs with a modest, two-year, $15 million contract. Ogbah responded with back-to-back 9 sack seasons and performed so effectively that Miami rewarded him with a four-year $65.4 million contract extension on March 14, 2022.

Ogbah’s new teammates — Ingram and Hill — signify a part of an aggressive offseason by the Dolphins as they attempt to make the playoffs, one thing the Chiefs have achieved seven straight years.