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Top 10 Miami Dolphins
Lots of these guys go back to the 70s.
Like Punxsutawney Phil, Mercury Morris pops up once a year. While Phil predicts the weather, Mercury does a victory lap after the last undefeated team in the NFL tastes defeat. It’s his way of highlighting the specialness of the 1972 undefeated Miami Dolphins. They were indeed a special team. Some of them are on this list.
Before we go on, just a note about Tyreek Hill. I generally have a three-year minimum on putting guys on this list. In other words, a guy has to be play for a team for three seasons before being eligible to be on a team’s Top 10. Hill has been with the Dolphins for two seasons. He will probably be fairly high on this list the next time I revise it. And here we go.
10. Paul Warfield
If you just look at the stats, Warfield doesn’t belong on this list. He spent five seasons with the Dolphins, catching 156 passes for 3355 yards and 33 TDs. During that time, he was named to the Pro Bowl four times and the All-Pro team twice. Clearly, he was respected in the time in which he played. He was, of course, and member of the perfect 1972 team as well as the 1973 Super Bowl winner. Warfield was clearly a big-play guy, averaging 21.5 yards per catch with the Fish. Other guys caught more passes for the Dolphins, but he is my pick as the best receiver in Dolphins’ history.
