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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