Month: July 2025

Miami Dolphins starting cornerback Kader Kohou will miss the entire 2025 season with a knee injury he sustained during training camp on Saturday in Miami Gardens, Fla.

Kohou suffered the injury during one-on-one drills against Tyreek Hill early in Saturday’s practice. He immediately grabbed his knee when he went to the ground, and limped to the locker room with a member of the team’s medical staff.

Head coach Mike McDaniel said in his press conference before practice on Wednesday that the Dolphins will place Kohou on injured reserve:  “I saw him ascend to a different level [this offseason]. The timing of it — I was crushed until I talked to Kader, and honestly Kader made me feel a little bit better, simply by his mindset. You don’t know the whys all the time when things happen, and I get concerned for guys who get stuck in that world of a fixation for ‘opportunities lost.’ Kader’s mindset triggered like that, to where he said, ‘This is tough but I guarantee I’m going to come back better.’ That is the way to approach both the game of football and life.”

Kohou joined the Dolphins as an undrafted free agent in 2022, and missed four games over his first three seasons. He is to hit free agency next off-season. Over 15 appearances last season, Kohou totaled 45 combined tackles, eight passes defensed, three tackles for a loss, a career-high two interceptions, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery.

The 5-foot-10, 197-pound defender is the second Dolphins cornerback to suffer a season-ending injury during this year’s training camp; free agent signee Artie Burns tore his ACL during Miami’s first day of camp last week. McDaniel did not rule out the possibility of signing another cornerback, though Jack Jones, Storm Duck, Mike Hilton, Cam Smith, Jason Marshall Jr., Ethan Bonner, Kendall Sheffield, B.J. Adams and Cornell Armstrong are all the other cornerbacks on the Dolphins’ roster.

The Dolphins will face the Bears in their preseason opener Aug. 10 in Chicago.

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The Cincinnati Bengals announced Wednesday that they have released veteran running back Zack Moss. Moss is currently recovering from a neck injury he sustained in November of last year, and started training camp on the non-football injury list.

Moss, 27, signed a two-year, $8 million contract with the Bengals last off-season. The Bengals restructured that pact in April, saving about $1.7 million in salary cap space. Wednesday’s release will cost the Bengals $1.88 million in dead money against the salary cap and net Cincinnati $1.2 million in cap savings.

Moss totaled a career-high 986 yards from scrimmage and seven scores on 210 touches over 14 appearances for the Indianapolis Colts in 2023. Last season over eight appearances, he totaled 429 yards from scrimmage and three scores. Just before the Bengals were scheduled to play the Raiders in Week 9, Moss learned he had broken his neck in three places—and had been playing through it for weeks. He missed the final nine games of the 2024 campaign.

The Bengals preseason opener against the Philadelphia Eagles will take place on Aug. 7 in Philadelphia.

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday that the gunman behind the deadly shooting inside an office building in Midtown Manhattan on Monday evening was apparently targeting NFL offices there. Adams has told the press it appears the shooter took the wrong elevator bank and instead reached the offices of Rudin Management, where he again opened fire after spraying bullets across the building’s lobby.

A New York City police officer and three civilians were killed after the gunman, Shane Devon Tamura, opened fire inside the high-rise corporate building in midtown Manhattan. The shooting was first reported at 6:30 p.m. at 345 Park Ave., which houses several major businesses, including Blackstone, KPMG and the NFL. The suspect died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, per authorities.

The four victims were identified as: NYPD officer Didarul Islam, Blackstone real estate executive Wesley LePatner, Rudin employee Julia Hyman, and security officer Aland Etienne.

Mayor Adams said that Officer Islam joined the NYPD four years ago. He was a Bangladeshi immigrant assigned to a Bronx precinct, and was off-duty working a private security detail assignment at the time of the shooting. Islam is survived by his wife, who is eight months pregnant, and two young sons.  The NYPD said in a statement: “Police Officer Didarul Islam represented the very best of our department. He was protecting New Yorkers from danger when his life was tragically cut short today.”

32BJ SEIU President Manny Pastreich said of dedicated security officer Aland Etienne: “this tragedy speaks to the sacrifice of security officers who risk their lives every day to keep New Yorkers and our buildings safe. Every time a security officer puts on their uniform, they put their lives on the line. Their contributions to our city are essential, though often unappreciated. Aland Etienne is a New York hero. We will remember him as such.” Etienne’s partner of eight years, Rachel Paoli, is the mother of their son, who will turn 7 on Saturday.

Blackstone also shared in a statement about their employee LePatner: “Words cannot express the devastation we feel. Wesley was a beloved member of the Blackstone family and will be sorely missed.  She was brilliant, passionate, warm, generous, and deeply respected within our firm and beyond. She embodied the best of Blackstone. Our prayers are with her husband, children and family. We are also saddened by the loss of the other innocent victims as well, including brave security personnel and NYPD.” 

Officials say that Tamura, a 27-year-old from Las Vegas, acted alone and “has a documented mental health history.” According to law enforcement, investigators recovered a three-page rambling note from the gunman’s wallet in which he referenced the brain disease CTE, which is caused by head trauma, as the possible cause of his mental illness. According to the sources, the note said he wanted to have his brain donated to science so it could studied for the disease. Tamura played high school football but did not play professionally, and police have not found any evidence that he suffered from CTE and has no known connection to the NFL. Police sources told ABC News that a page of the note alleged the National Football League had concealed the dangers football contact could cause to players’ brains to maximize earnings. Tamura had two Mental Health Crisis Holds on his record, and a prior arrest for trespassing in Nevada, where he also received his concealed carry license.

ESPN’s Jeff Darlington posted to X  that “NFL commissioner Roger Goodell informed league employees that ‘one of our employees was seriously injured in this attack. He is currently in the hospital and in stable condition” (which was also confirmed by CNN.)

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Miami Dolphins defensive back Ashtyn Davis faced a setback in his bid to become the Dolphins’ starting safety this season after sustaining a lower leg injury during Tuesday’s practice.

A headline on Sports Illustrated’s website have the Dolphins calling it an “ominous-looking injury”, but there was no official report from the team on Davis’ prognosis.

According to NFL reporter Cameron Wolfe, “Dolphins safety Ashtyn Davis went down with an apparent lower leg injury in team drills. He limped inside the team facility after a few mins. Davis punched the ground in frustration after falling down. HC Mike McDaniel and a few teammates went over to talk to him on sidelines.”

Wolfe later updated that “Ashtyn Davis is back on sidelines with crutches & a boot on his left foot/lower leg. Miami’s bad luck with training camp secondary injuries continues”

Davis came joined the Cal football program as a walk-on in 2015 after being a standout hurdler on the Cal track team in 2014.  He played his first five NFL seasons with the New York Jets, and signed a one-year, $2.5 million free-agent contract with the Dolphins in March.

Davis has started 22 games in his NFL career and has eight career interceptions. Last season for the Jets, he played in 15 games, making just one start. Davis’ best season was 2021 when he started 10 games, recorded two interceptions, made 62 tackles and forced three fumbles. He finished the 2024 season with 35 tackles and two interceptions.

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