The Miami Dolphins may have started their 2026 campaign with an 0-3 record, which puts them at the bottom of their division, the conference and the league, but there are some positive signs from the team early on.
One of them could be seen during a play in Sunday's 24-10 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs at Hard Rock Stadium.
In the second quarter, down 14-7. Miami had the ball at their own 12-yard line with 6:10 left to go in the half. On first-and-10, Dolphins quarterback Malik Willis hit rookie wide receiver Chris Bell for a 44-yard gain.
While it was a big play and the drive ultimately ended in a turnover, it was the actions of a big man on the line that caught the attention of fans and pundits alike.
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On the play, Dolphins center Aaron Brewer disengages with his block and sprints down the field, eventually catching up with Bell as a Chiefs defender shoves him out of bounds. That type of effort also caught the eye of head coach Jeff Hafley, who discussed the play during his media availability on Wednesday.
"I'm glad you noticed that," Hafley said. "It's one of the first things I pointed out in the team meeting; it's one of the coolest clips that I've seen. We talk about it all the time. When you hit the pause button, how close you are, in my opinion, to your teammate shows how much you love and respect your teammate. Defensively, I've used that for a long time now, when I click that, if I can see all 11, it shows how much you care about your teammates, and we're starting to see all 11. When you see a center, and Proctor's kind of right behind him on that play too, when you see those big men running down the field, that says a lot about the type of people we have on this team, what we're building culturally with this team, because that clip symbolizes something that is very special to me, and I think it's very rare.
"So I appreciate you noticing that as well. That's a really, really cool clip, and when I saw it, I texted him right away. I didn't see it live. I think I actually was close when he got tackled. I looked up, and Brewer was right there for a moment. I was like, ‘What the hell is Brewer doing here? He's the center. He should be down the field.’ That was really cool."
The Dolphins made it clear this offseason that with their new regime in place, they wanted to build around the right guys, and Brewer was near the top of that list. Miami eventually gave him a multi-year extension to keep him around for the foreseeable future, and it's not hard to see why when he sets that kind of example while being one of the highest-paid players on the team.
This article originally appeared on Dolphins Wire: Jeff Hafley believes one play from Week 3 symbolizes Dolphins' culture
