How many offensive snaps have the Dolphins lost this offseason?

The Miami Dolphins have the opportunity this season to take a major step forward in their production and play — the team is loaded with young talent and appears to have upgraded significantly at a slew of positions across the roster. Entering into Year 3 of the Chris Grier & Brian Flores era leaves the Dolphins with their most gifted roster yet; but also affords the team with a new opportunity with something they haven’t had much of thus far into the team’s rebuilding effort:

Continuity.

The Dolphins spent the first 18 months of their season churning the roster to try to find diamonds in the rough amid an evaluation season in 2019. But now the team appears to have identified some long-term cornerstones and stocked the roster with hand-picked talent. That doesn’t necessarily mean the team is going to retain every player from here on out, but the mass exodus of talent appears to have come and gone.

So with that in mind, how much did the Dolphins lose offensively this offseason? Improved play here is a big point of emphasis for Miami this year: finding more consistent and productive play when they’ve got the football. The continuity should help.

Miami, excluding transactions mid-season, lost nearly 3,100 offensive snaps (3,073). Those departures include:

• iOL Ted Karras – 1,067 snaps

• OG Ereck Flowers (trade) – 856

• QB Ryan Fitzpatrick – 496

• WR Isaiah Ford – 374

• RB Matt Breida – 151

• RB DeAndre Washington – 77

• OT Julie’n Davenport – 52

This list does not, of course, include players like Chandler Cox, Jordan Howard and Antonio Callaway, who where cut before the end of the regular season. If you’re willing to exclude the departures at guard and center between Karras and Flowers, Miami’s losses from a snap perspective are quite negligible. The team transitioned away from QB Ryan Fitzpatrick mid-season and his departure, which was very much imminent, may arguably be the biggest shift and change for the team.

The Dolphins will need to find competent play at center but should feel good about their effort to upgrade Flowers; who was a first-year free agent addition but a limited player that Miami did well to fill the role in 2020 before being traded back to Washington.

How does 3,100 snaps lost stack up to the league? Some teams, including the Detroit Lions, Los Angeles Rams, Los Angeles Chargers, Kansas City Chiefs, Las Vegas Raiders and Houston Texans, lost in excess of 4,000+ snaps this offseason as of April. So while there’s plenty of change, it isn’t nearly up to the peaks of others across the league.