The Book on the New Dolphins DC

The Miami Dolphins have their new defensive coordinator.

The team is finalizing a contract with Anthony Weaver, as first report by Bleacher Report and confirmed by a league source.

Weaver joins the Dolphins after spending the past three seasons with the Baltimore Ravens, the last two as assistant head coach/defensive line coach.

Weaver, who will turn 44 in July, worked with five different teams before joining the Dolphins — the New York Jets, Buffalo Bills, Cleveland Browns and Houston Texans were the others.

In his first of two seasons in Cleveland, 2014, Weaver served on the same staff as Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel.

Weaver's only experience as a defensive coordinator was with Houston in 2020. The Texans finished 30th in the NFL in total yards allowed that season and last in the league in takeaways with only nine, though in fairness the Texans weren't exactly talent-laden beyond J.J. Watt.

Under Weaver's tutelage, Ravens defensive tackle Justin Madubuike emerged as a star in 2023, finishing with 12 sacks. After Weaver took over as run game coordinator in 2021, Baltimore finished first in the NFL in run defense in 2021 and third in 2022.

Weaver was credit for the development of fellow Baltimore defensive linemen Travis Jones and Broderick Washington, and he helped lead Baltimore's 2023 offensive coordinator search that ended with Todd Monken being hired for the position.

Prior to his coaching career, Weaver played seven seasons as a defensive lineman with the Texans and Ravens after being a second-round pick of the Ravens in 2002.