The Dolphins are shopping Ted Ginn Jr.

[Swarly]

Didn't we use a 4th rounder on Ryne Robinson who was intended to just be a return guy?

Was Rynn Robinson given a 20 million $ contract? Is a late round guy that will be "camp fodder" as you say cost $1.4 million for the 2010 season and $1.4 million in 2011?

[Dpantherman]

Chris Mortensen:

It's a 5th round pick 49ers gave Dolphins for Ginn. Filed to ESPN after taping special edition of The Mort Report for ESPN Rado #NFLDraft

[Guest silver82blade]

robinson was a pretty decent receiver too. i still don't know why we dropped him. i'm not too upset at losing the chance at ginn jr, as long as we get trindon holliday or jacoby ford or mardy gilyard in the draft. good thing we upgraded our special teams so he doesn't burn us this year, hopefully.

[Sam Mills Fan]

He's only making $1.035 million this season. LOL at these $20 million figures.

$1.035 million in an uncapped year when you have nothing at receiver and no return game with the only compensation given is a late-round draft pick is nothing. Especially not for a team that has cleaned out, what, like $45 million this offseason?

[Swarly]

You said "didn't we draft Robinson in the 4th for return duties only." I responded with we didn't give him a $20 million dollar contract for that. Almost 3 million for a guy to ONLY return kicks is not worth it.

[Sam Mills Fan]

Again, he's making slightly more than $1 million this season. That's fine for a return guy. Hell, I think Jason Baker is supposed to make a little more than that this season.

Besides, with us having nothing at receiver, he would play plenty of receiver as well.

[Sam Mills Fan]

Baker's 2010 salary: $1.137 million

Ginn's 2010 salary: $1.035 million

Source is Rotoworld.

[Guest silver82blade]

i'm not sure i'd want him to play receiver though. he drops a lot of passes. you only get 4 chances to move the chains. even one dropped pass can be devastating. i'd rather get guys in the draft who may be able to catch. you're right though, that is not at all a lot of money. i don't know what you folks are talking about. what do you think would be a good price for a pure returner? a few hundred thousand less? who are you, scrooge? do you count every penny in your piggy banks? i kid.

[Sam Mills Fan]

Mark Jones was making about 850K when he was here. So it's more expensive when you look at it that way, but Mark Jones was never ever going to see the field at receiver. Ginn is just as fine as a #2 or #3 receiver AND is a great return guy.

[Swarly]

Ginn is not fine for a #2 or #3 receiver man. Yeah, he'll make a couple plays, but he'll ruin 10x many plays. He's like Braylon Edwards. Flashy, but when it comes down to it a quarterback will never be able to depend on him because they can't do the one thing they're paid millions to do: CATCH A FOOTBALL.

As someone said earlier, he'll end up costing us games by dropping a crucial pass. No thanks. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'd rather have Jarrett starting than Ginn. At least when Jarrett finds a way to get separation and gets open, it's almost a sure catch.

[Guest silver82blade]

jarrett drops passes too. our best bet is to find two good receivers in the draft.

[Sam Mills Fan]

Ginn stats last year:

38 catches for 454 yards, 1 TD

2008:

56 catches for 790 yards, 2 TDs, 2 TDs on 5 rushing attempts

2007:

34 catches for 420 yards, 1 TD

Jarrett 2009:

17 catches for 196 yards, 1 TD

2008:

10 catches for 119 yards

2007:

6 catches for 73 yards

So Ginn's worst year is easily better than Jarrett's best year. Not to mention Ginn has 2 kickoff returns for TDs and 1 punt return. I mean...come on man. Let's not play pattycake.

[Sam Mills Fan]

Ginn: 9 career TDs

Jarrett: 1 career TD

Both entered the league at the same time.

[Swarly]

go look up how many passes ginn has dropped and report back with that stat