Miami Dolphins long snapper Blake Ferguson returned to practice earlier this month with a designation to return from the non-football illness list. On Wednesday, head coach Mike McDaniel said that return isn’t going to happen.
“I don’t think we’ll be seeing Blake this season. His focus will be the 2025 season and that’s why we did the move,” McDaniel said.
The move McDaniel is talking about was the team’s decision to sign long snapper Jack McQuaide to the 53-man roster on Tuesday.
Ferguson, 27, landed on the NFI list in October for reasons that neither he nor the Dolphins have made public. The veteran long snapper is one of only a handful of players in the NFL with Type 1 Diabetes, which he has spoken about publicly.
The Dolphins signed Ferguson as an undrafted rookie in 2020 and he hadn’t missed a game in more than four seasons before he was sidelined earlier this year. Miami signed him to a contract extension in 2023 that is due to keep him on the team through the 2026 season.
