Dolphins wide receiver Wilson glad to stay
MIAMI GARDENS – Cedrick Wilson Jr. is happy and his new fiancee is, too.
“Focused on balance in life,” Wilson said Thursday. Wilson recently restructured his contract with Miami to stay for a second season, after it appeared he was more likely than not to be traded this offseason.
“I just know that I’m going to be playing football for the Dolphins at the start of the season,” Wilson said. “And that’s what I wanted to do.”
Wilson, 27, signed a three-year, $22 million contract to leave Dallas prior to last season.
But Wilson had only 12 catches as he was buried behind Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle.
So the Dolphins and Wilson agreed to lop off the third year of that contract and reduce his salary to $5 million for this season. General manager Chris Grier had promised to do right by Wilson, and if he explored trade options, it’s clear the return was not deemed worthy.
“I mean, I feel like (Grier’s) doing right by me because we’re still standing in the Miami locker room talking,” Wilson said. “So I feel like we’re in practice today, and I’m still employed, so I feel like he’s doing great by me.”
Wilson had multiple injuries that slowed him in 2022, notably lingering pain in his ribs.
He feels he’s better prepared physically and mentally to succeed.
“Just comfortability,” Wilson said. “I mean, to have a playbook and come to all-new offense, all-new type of scheme of offense going into the West Coast from what I’ve recently played in college, to here.”
The SEC adds blue bloods Texas and
Oklahoma.
The Big Ten brings in the top four football programs on the West Coast:
USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington.
Even the Big 12 rises from the ashes and lures Colorado, Utah, Arizona and
Arizona State.
The ACC? It finds two of the Pac-12’s leftovers (Cal, Stanford), and a Group of
Five program (SMU) willing to forfeit all media rights revenue to join a Power
Five conference.
Nothing says Atlantic Coast like Berkeley, Palo Alto and Dallas.
Desperation.
While the ACC stood by, the SEC, Big Ten and Big 12 enhanced their football and basketball brands.