Two-time Pro Bowl pass rusher Bradley Chubb agreed to a pay cut that will keep him with the Miami Dolphins, according to Jordan Schultz of FOX Sports.
Chubb, 28, was due to count $28.66 million against the Dolphins’ salary cap in 2025 — the second highest total on the team behind only quarterback Tua Tagovailoa’s $39.18 million cap hit. That was a number that unmanageable for a team that doesn’t have much room to make moves in the 2025 offseason.
If Chubb and the Dolphins couldn’t agree to a revised contract, the likely move for the team would’ve been to release the pass rusher with a post-June 1 designation that would’ve saved the team $19.55 million in salary cap space later in the offseason.
The Dolphins acquired Chubb in a 2022 trade with the Miami Dolphins and signed the pass rusher to a five-year, $110 million extension shortly after making the deal. The former top 10 draft pick lived up to those expectations by recording 11 sacks and an NFL-leading six forced fumbles in 2023. However, that season ended with a knee injury suffered in Week 17 that kept him out for all of 2024, as well.
With Chubb back on the roster in 2025, the Dolphins are in line to finally have their entire trio of pass rushers at Anthony Weaver’s disposal next season. Former first-round pick Jaelan Phillips only played a few games in 2024 before suffering a knee injury, and 2024 first-rounder Chop Robinson emerged as one of the NFL’s most productive rushers in the back half of his rookie year.
The total amount of savings in the revised deal hasn’t yet been revealed. Prior to the restructure, Over The Cap calculated the Dolphins are $1.6 million over the NFL’s $279.2 million salary cap for the 2025 season.