The 2026 NFL league year will kick off this coming Wednesday. The so called legal-tampering period begins tomorrow, where teams can discuss deals with free agents but no deals can be signed until Wednesday. With that, our own Miami Dolphins will have a mountain of questions to answer before the season begins in early September. One of the main questions is who the team will roll with at starting quarterback once the season kicks off. With prior starter Tua Tagovailoa all but out sooner than later,
the team will need a new starter, even if only for one bridge season.
The easy decision would be to just roll with Quinn Ewers to begin the season after he took over as the starter for the end of last season. Ewers did not light things up, but he also did not completely embarrass himself. I suspect that the team can limp along with Ewers as a bridge quarterback until the 2027 NFL draft when the position will be much deeper. Most believe that Ewers has a place in the NFL, but sadly, it’s likely as a backup (I hope I am wrong), not a long-term answer at starting quarterback. Either way, it’s clear that Quinn still needs some development at the NFL level if he hopes to stick around at this level long term.
Other quarterbacks mentioned for the starting position in Miami include Kyler Murray, who was recently notified that he would be released, Marcus Mariota, who has served as the backup with the Washington Commanders over the last couple of seasons, and Anthony Richardson, who seems to be on the outs with Indy and could use a reboot. There’s also the prospect of signing Malik Willis, the previous GB Packers backup quarterback, who is said to be set to make somewhere between 10 and 30 million, according to various talking heads, on the open market. The lower end of that for Willis might be okay but anywhere near the high end is likely too high and just too expensive for the stage this team is currently entering.
There have been other random quarterbacks that I have seen mentioned as possibilities (Jimmy Garoppolo; unretired Derek Carr), with none of them really seeming likely choices for this team and where they are at this point in time, but since we don’t really know what to expect from the new front office and coaching staff, I suppose anything is possible. But what do you think?
So this evening’s question of the day is:
Who do you see as the most likely starting quarterback for our Miami Dolphins in 2026, and why? Beyond who you think it would be, who do you actually believe it should be, and why?
Please share your thougths and answers in the comments section below-
