Miami Dolphins Over Under 4.5 Wins & Betting Odds 2026

Getting out from under one quarterback contract cost more money than any club has ever spent. Miami Dolphins betting odds sit at the bottom of the board because of it.

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On 9 March Miami released Tua Tagovailoa using a post-June 1 designation, taking a dead cap charge of roughly 99.2 million dollars spread across two years. It is the largest in NFL history.

Hours later they agreed a three year, 67.5 million dollar deal with Malik Willis, with 45 million guaranteed.

Willis had played under both the new head coach and the new general manager in Green Bay.

PowerPlay Sportsbook has Miami 1000.00 for Super Bowl LXI, the longest price on the entire board, 100.00 in the AFC and 40.00 to win the AFC East.

They finished 7-10 last season, scoring 347 and conceding 424.

Odds correct at time of publication and subject to change.

A Clear Out That Started in February

Mike McDaniel was sacked on 8 January.

Jon-Eric Sullivan was hired as general manager on 9 January from Green Bay, and Jeff Hafley was announced as head coach on 19 January on a five-year contract.

Hafley arrived from two seasons as Green Bay's defensive coordinator, where the defence ranked ninth in yards and eighth in points allowed.

On 16 February the club released Tyreek Hill, Bradley Chubb, the guard James Daniels and the receiver Nick Westbrook-Ikhine in a single wave, clearing more than 56 million dollars of cap space.

Hill's last season had ended in Week 4 with multiple torn knee ligaments after 21 catches.

Jaylen Waddle went to Denver in a deal finalised during the April draft, with Miami receiving the 30th overall pick plus a third and a fourth.

Bobby Slowik runs the offence, Sean Duggan the defence.

The Quarterback Room Was Rebuilt in Forty-Eight Hours

Around the cutdown Miami traded Quinn Ewers to Jacksonville for a 2028 sixth, then acquired Kyle McCord from Green Bay for a 2028 sixth the following day.

On 31 August they claimed seven players off waivers, the highest number in the league, including the quarterback Brady Cook from the Jets.

That is a club treating the bottom of its roster as something to be replaced rather than developed.

The headline cut was the linebacker Tyrel Dodson, beaten out by the rookie Jacob Rodriguez. Terrace Marshall Jr, Jalen Reagor and Marco Wilson also went.

Miami used two first-round picks in April, taking the Alabama offensive tackle Kadyn Proctor at 12 and the San Diego State cornerback Chris Johnson at 27.

Jordyn Brooks was a first-team All-Pro last season with 183 combined tackles, and De'Von Achane went to the Pro Bowl with 1,350 rushing yards and eight touchdowns.

The centre Aaron Brewer made second team All-Pro. None of that was enough to keep the head coach or the general manager in a job.

A Twelve and a Half Billion Dollar Valuation

Stephen Ross sold a one percent limited interest to the Xiaomi co-founder Lin Bin at a 12.5 billion dollar valuation, approved by NFL owners on 31 March.

It is the highest valuation placed on a club by a minority sale in professional sport, and it covers the club, Hard Rock Stadium, the Miami Grand Prix and the Miami Open.

So the franchise has never been worth more and has never been priced longer. Both of those things are true at the same time, and neither is really about the other.

The Canadian defensive lineman Rene Konga, from Ottawa, signed as a priority undrafted free agent with 277,500 dollars guaranteed and went to injured reserve at cuts.

Odds correct at time of publication and subject to change.

What September Tells You

Miami open at Las Vegas, the first of back-to-back road games, and have no international fixture.

The club has not won a playoff game since the 2000 season, a drought that now runs to twenty five years.

The win line is 4.5 and the market leans under it at 1.70 against 1.95. Only Arizona share that number.

September will answer one question and not the other. It will show quickly whether Willis is a starting quarterback in this league, because there is nobody behind him with a claim.

It will not show whether the 99.2 million dollars was worth spending, because that answer arrives in 2028 when the charge finally clears.

Miami are 100.00 in the AFC alongside the Jets, in a division where Buffalo are 1.70 and New England 2.35.