MIAMI — The Dolphins revised Minkah Fitzpatrick’s contract on Sunday, giving their new safety a bit more money this season and clearing $11 million in cap space.

The Dolphins converted some of his salary into a $16.2 million signing bonus and moved up $2 million in salary to 2025, meaning he will make $17.5 million in 2025 and $15.6 million in 2026. That means Fitzpatrick gets $2 million more this season than planned.

His contract expires after 2026, and no additional years were added.

“We are comfortable with the commitment to Minkah as we continue to work with the Dolphins on a multi-year extension,” agent Drew Rosenhaus said.

The 29-year-old Fitzpatrick, who recently hired Rosenhaus, would like a long-term deal.

He hasn’t yet met with the media since his acquisition from Pittsburgh, but teammates and coaches have praised him for being engaged and particularly helpful in meetings. He had the best defensive play of training camp on Saturday when he jumped to snag an interception on a long down-field pass.

“He’s a professional,” veteran Dolphins safety Ashtyn Davis said. “I’m learning the game within the game from him, how to watch film, seeing tendencies and picking up whatever I can from him.”

The additional $11 million in cap space gives Miami about $13 million in space, enough of a cushion to sign a practice squad and fill any needs that arise because of injury. There also is flexibility to add salary cap space this season in a potential new deal for Zach Sieler. Any unused cap space can be carried over to next offseason.

Undrafted rookie update

Several undrafted Dolphins rookies have flashed early in camp. But it’s going to take a few more weeks to determine if there’s any jewel in the bunch.

All four of the undrafted rookie receivers — Andrew Armstrong, Theo Wease Jr., AJ Henning and Monaray Baldwin — have made multiple catches. Baldwin so far has had the best play of the four — a long reception from Quinn Ewers during Saturday’s session.

The Dolphins gave the 6-4 Armstrong and the 6-2 Wease $234,000 guaranteed because of their of size and athleticism and production. But they will need to stand out to grab the fifth receiver job from Dee Eskridge, with Tajh Washington, Erik Ezukanma and Tarik Black also competing.

Keep in mind the Dolphins’ final receiver opening on the 53-man roster last year went to a player claimed off waivers in late August (Grant DuBose).

The one undrafted running back, Nate Noel from Missouri, has had a couple of strong carries but he’s behind the team’s top four backs and it seems unlikely that Miami would keep five.

Jalin Conyers, the rookie tight end from Texas Tech, made a nice catch early in camp but hasn’t performed yet to the level of fourth-year tight end Tanner Conner.

On defense, cornerbacks BJ Adams and Ethan Robinson haven’t yet made any flash plays. Adams looked wobbly and was carted off on Saturday. But wasn’t limping, suggesting he might have been dehydrated.

Safety John Saunders Jr. has made a couple of impressive plays, including breaking up a pass to Conner.

Neither of the undrafted front seven players (defensive lineman Alex Huntley or linebacker Eugene Asante) has made a move.

The Dolphins are getting very good work from a few of their third day draft picks. Cornerback Jason Marshall Jr. had one of the top plays so far in camp: a sideline interception of an Ewers pass that he returned for a touchdown.

Ewers, the seventh round pick, has been error-free aside from that turnover and has made more than a handful of impressive throws. His pocket presence has improved over the summer.

Ollie Gordon II had a fumble earlier in the camp, and Alexander Mattison — his competition for the No. 3 running back job — has had a better first four days of practice. But Gordon almost assuredly will make the team. Fifth-round safety Dante Trader Jr. hasn’t been spotted at practice on Friday or Saturday; the reason is unknown.

Tagovailoa weighs in

In an interview with NFL Network on Saturday, Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa expanded on his comments from earlier in the week in which he said rebuilding his relationship with Tyreek Hill was a “work in progress” after Hill suggested he wanted out following the season finale against the Jets.

“I don’t feel it’s me talking bad about my teammate,” Tagovailoa said on NFL Network. “I’m just trying to hold him accountable, because that’s what we try to do with everyone on our team. And if this is what we say the standard is, that’s what the standard is, and no one is exempt from it.”

Hill later walked back his comments, but Tagovailoa said “when you say something like that ... you don’t just come back with a ‘hey, my bad,’ you have to work that relationship up, build everything up again … I would say from that comment last year, it’s not like only one person was going to hear that. Cheetah would have to have known, if im saying it, I’m going to make [news].”

Tagovailoa, noting his growth as a leader, said “if it happened, three years ago, I probably wouldn’t have” said anything about it.

“Cheetah is a great player,” Tagovailoa said in his TV interview. “But in the locker room, that’s where the nitty, gritty, the relationships, the hard conversations, that’s where you build each other up. You have those conversations there. Reek is going through a phase of who he wants to become as a man, who he wants to become a father for his kids. It’s never too late for anybody to change.”

Receiver Nick Westbrook Ikhine — who likely will share No. 3 and No. 4 receiver duties with Malik Washington — looks like his best value might be in the red zone.

“I like the end zone,” he said Saturday. “I really liked it last year” when he had nine touchdown receptions.

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