Rookie Kamara: I’ve got to make this team
MIAMI GARDENS — Mo Kamara was participating in his first Miami Dolphins walk-through, at a rookie camp in May, and, well, he was a bit too wound up.
“I’m fired up,” Kamara said Friday, before a Dolphins rookie camp practice session. “Coach had to tell me to calm down.”
That was outside linebackers coach Ryan Crow.
But, look, here’s the thing: Kamara is still not happy that he was a fifth-round pick.
Did anyone notice he had 13 sacks for
Colorado State last season?
And so Kamara, who is 6-foot-1, 248 pounds, is on a mission.
Dolphins’ Mo Kamara: I have to make this team
“My brother called me last night,” Kamara said. “He said, you know, ‘You made it to the locker room.’ So that’s all it means. It just means I just made it to the locker room. Nothing else. I still gotta’ prove myself.”
Let’s just say Kamara hasn’t bought a condo at the beach.
And no, he hasn’t written down his sack goal for 2024 yet.
“I still gotta’ make the team,” Kamara said.
That is the right mindset.
Curtis Weaver is a nice cautionary tale for Fins
Just a few years ago the Dolphins drafted another Mountain West conference edge rusher, Curtis Weaver, in the fifth round. And he did not make the team.
Weaver’s played one NFL game. For the Browns.
Kamara, a New Jersey native, is a bundle of energy.
Asked if he is a fan of the Mets, Jets, Giants, Knicks or Rangers, Kamara paused.
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Then, smartly, Kamara said: “The sports team that I like? Miami Dolphins.”
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