30-06-2025
Former Dolphins RB Raheem Mostert rips Miami after team traded away two Pro Bowlers
One former Miami Dolphin took exception to the team trading away two Pro Bowlers to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Monday.
In the aftermath of the Dolphins' agreement to send cornerback Jalen Ramsey and tight end Jonnu Smith to the Steelers in exchange for safety Minkah Fitzpatrick and a 2027 pick swap, tailback Raheem Mostert ripped the team, essentially once again questioning Miami's culture.
'Hot take: Be a Pro-bowler on the Dolphins, get treated like sh*t,' Mostert wrote Monday afternoon, quote tweeting a post about Smith's trade. 'Happy for my guys though! GO BALL OUT!!'
Mostert spent three with the Dolphins between 2022-24 before he signed with the Las Vegas Raiders in the 2025 offseason. During his lone Pro Bowl season in 2023, he set team records for rushing (18) and total touchdowns (21) as the lead back when Miami paced the league in offensive production. A down season in 2024 came as the result of injuries.
Ramsey and Smith, meanwhile, each made a Pro Bowl during their time in Miami. With Ramsey, it came during 2023, his first year with the Dolphins, when he snagged three interceptions in just 10 games. Smith's lone Pro Bowl year came in 2024 when he rewrote the Dolphins history books, setting new tight end records for catches (88), receiving yards (884) and touchdowns (eight).
Mostert wasn't the first player to take a shot at Dolphins culture in recent years. Former Dolphins safety DeShon Elliott called the 2023 team 'soft as f––' during podcast interview.
'There were some guys who were tough, but the majority of the [Dolphins] were not mentally tough individuals,' the current Steelers safety said on 'The Punch Line' podcast during the 2024 season. 'So to be on a team with a full team of mentally tough guys going against a mentally tough team .... this is going to be fun.'
Following a 30-17 loss to the Packers in the frozen, Green Bay tundra, the issue of softness came up again.
'I thought we were soft,' linebacker Jordyn Brooks said after the team missed 20 tackles. 'Simple as that, I thought we were soft today. I don't know if guys was too cold. ... I don't know what it was. I feel like the elements played a part in how we played as a group, and that was the result that we got.'
Packers running back Josh Jacobs seemingly doubled down.
'Them boys looked cold out there,' Jacobs said, via NFL Network's Cameron Wolfe.
With Ramsey out the door, the Dolphins have now lost four — Terron Armstead, Calais Campbell and David Long Jr. — of their eight captains from the 2024 season, allowing the team's new leaders to craft a culture of their own. Only time will tell whether or not the culture improves in 2025 but the early returns seem positive from coaches and players alike.
'I think there is a culture shift,' quarterback Tua Tagovailoa said June 10. 'I feel it just as much as everyone that's been here since I've gotten into the league. We always hear about, 'Man, culture shift. You guys have a change of this. You guys are doing this, always optimistic.' But I really do feel in my heart that this is a change of scenery for our guys in the locker room, and then it also transitions to our coaches as well, because we get opportunities to lead and it's not as much the coaches as it is the players I would say this year.'
Added Tagovailoa: 'We have the right guys within the room, within the locker room, within the offense, and I know those guys on the defense feel like they have their guys as well. For me, I think what's most important is I've been here for five years going on six. Are you not tired of what we've done these past five years? If you are, then why aren't we doing anything about it? What do we have to change? What do we have to do to correct the navigation of where we want to go? I would say that's what it is. You create that standard in the locker room, the guys follow and you've got to uphold it.'
