South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Sunday)
Here and gone within a flash
O-lineman Wilson waived less than 2 weeks after being acquired from Titans
Isaiah Wilson’s time with the Miami Dolphins has come to an end less than two weeks after his arrival.
Three days after the Dolphins officially announced his acquisition, they waived Wilson on Saturday, according to a league source.
Wilson, an offensive tackle acquired in a March 8 trade with the Tennessee Titans, was late to his Dolphins physical examination, onboarding meeting and voluntary practices in a continuance of issues that plagued him in his one season with the Titans.
Wilson was the No. 29 pick in the first round of the 2020 NFL draft and attended Poly Prep Country
Day School in Brooklyn, New York — the same high school Dolphins coach Brian Flores attended.
The hope was Wilson could turn his NFL career around under Flores in Miami and become a starting-caliber right tackle in the NFL.
But that hope became shortlived.
Wilson was seen on social media Friday toting on a vape pen and dancing on top of a car without a shirt on — certainly not the light in which NFL teams want to see a player who has dealt with some off-the-field trouble in the past year.
Wilson played only four snaps during his first NFL season, which began with a trespassing warning after a party at Tennessee State University last August and included a DUI arrest Sept. 12 in Nashville, Tenn.
Wilson was also placed on the NFL’s reserve/COVID-19 list twice during his rookie season, once in
training camp and again in October. The Dolphins were on the hook for around $4 million remaining of Wilson’s rookie contract, which was a four-year, $11.5 million deal that included a $5.9 million signing bonus and a fifth-year option.
But Tennessee paid most of that salary already, and Wilson’s guaranteed money became voided.
The $4 million is not guaranteed by Miami, and the Dolphins will keep the seventh-round pick they exchanged in the Wilson deal.