{"id":254715,"date":"2025-11-16T12:09:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=254715"},"modified":"2025-11-16T12:09:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:09:19","slug":"miami-dolphins-top-nflpa-report-cards-second-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/11\/16\/miami-dolphins-top-nflpa-report-cards-second-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Dolphins Top NFLPA Report Cards for Second Year in a Row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFLPA has released its third-annual report card on teams around the league, and once again, the Miami Dolphins come out glowingly.<\/p>\n<p>Launched as a resource to give players in the NFL a voice and a place to detail their daily experiences and working environment in the league, the NFLPA&#8217;s Player Survey and Team Report Cards give an insight into how players on teams actually feel about what the team does for them, outside of on-field results.<\/p>\n<p>The reports are broken down into 11 categories, with players giving their teams a letter grade. The results from all players are collated, and an average letter grade is assigned for each category.<\/p>\n<p>In its third year, 1,695 players responded to the survey, equating to roughly 77% of all players in the league, which makes it quite representative and a decent indicator of how teams are performing behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<p>The Report Cards have come in for criticism from NFL owners, most notably <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SharpFootball\/status\/1989155995730448464\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Jets owner Woody Johnson<\/a>, with the league filing a grievance against the NFLPA, requesting that the union stop them.<\/p>\n<p>However, for the Miami Dolphins, they should be looked on favorably as the team once again comes out on top in the eyes of its players.<\/p>\n<h2>Miami Dolphins Rank Highest According to Players<\/h2>\n<p>The Miami Dolphins ranked first overall in 2024, with high grades in all categories. In 2025, the Dolphins have <a  href=\"https:\/\/nflpa.com\/report-cards\/2025\/miami-dolphins\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">retained their place at the top<\/a>, with players grading the team no lower than &#8216;A&#8217; in every category.<\/p>\n<p>The Dolphins were graded &#8216;A+&#8217; in multiple categories in the 2025 report, including Ownership, Head Coach, Team Travel, Strength Coaches, and Locker Room.<\/p>\n<p>This shows that the players feel genuinely connected to their teammates, with a positive atmosphere in the locker room, while having a strong faith in head coach Mike McDaniel and even Stephen Ross, who has been the owner of the team since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>While some owners are opposed to the report cards, with the aforementioned Johnson <a  href=\"https:\/\/nflpa.com\/report-cards\/2025\/new-york-jets#owner\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">graded at an F<\/a> by his team&#8217;s players in this year&#8217;s report, many players and former players have been outspoken in their support for them.<\/p>\n<h3>Miami Dolphins Proactive in Improving<\/h3>\n<p>Former Miami Dolphins long snapper Blake Ferguson <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/blakeferguson48\/status\/1989101634929004858\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">weighed in on the situation<\/a>, giving a clear example of how the report cards led to a positive change from the team with regard to the game-day experience of family members.<\/p>\n<p>Air-conditioned rooms, a day care, and even a dedicated member of staff were implemented as a result of the report cards, showing that Ross takes note of what his players are saying and has been proactive in improving the experience for them.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the Dolphins have been graded &#8216;A&#8217; in the Treatment of Families category.<\/p>\n<p>On the whole, the Dolphins present as a well-run organization, regardless of the on-field results of late, and should be an attractive destination for players in the future.<\/p>\n<p>If players put such high stock in the report cards, it can go a long way to aiding the team when it comes to situations <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/11\/07\/miami-dolphins-heading-retool-not-rebuild-trade-deadline\/\" target=\"_self\">such as free agency<\/a>, where the team is hoping to attract more top talent to help strengthen the roster.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: Rich Storry-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NFLPA has released its third-annual report card on teams around the league, and once again, the Miami Dolphins come out glowingly. Launched as a resource to give players in the NFL a voice and a place to detail their daily experiences and working environment in the league, the NFLPA&#8217;s Player Survey and Team Report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2529,"featured_media":251575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7777,8908,8904],"class_list":["post-254715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dolphins","tag-miami-dolphins-news","tag-mike-mcdaniel","tag-stephen-ross"],"modified_by":"Mike Kashuba","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2529"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254715"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254955,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254715\/revisions\/254955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}