Sources: Fins, Steelers talking trade for TE Smith

The Miami Dolphins person engaged successful commercialized discussions with the Pittsburgh Steelers involving choky extremity Jonnu Smith, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter.

Smith expressed involvement to the Dolphins successful reworking the two-year woody helium signed past offseason, which would wage him $4.8 cardinal successful 2025, sources told Schefter. Smith was not contiguous for Miami's voluntary OTA practices this week.

The Steelers' involvement successful Smith is rooted successful violative coordinator Arthur Smith's long-standing narration with the choky end. Arthur Smith was Jonnu Smith's choky ends manager and violative coordinator successful Tennessee, and Arthur Smith aboriginal traded for his erstwhile subordinate during his stint arsenic the Falcons caput coach.

Smith acceptable a franchise grounds for receptions (88) and receiving yards (884) by a choky extremity past play en way to his archetypal vocation Pro Bowl selection. He led each Dolphins players successful receptions successful his archetypal twelvemonth with the squad and finished down lone Brock Bowers, Trey McBride and George Kittle league-wide successful receiving yards by a choky end.

Trading Smith would mean the Dolphins could participate the 2025 play without 4 salient seasoned leaders from a play ago, including antiaircraft lineman Calais Campbell, violative lineman Terron Armstead and antiaircraft backmost Jalen Ramsey, who Miami is besides looking to commercialized this offseason.

Miami is not needfully equipped to participate the play without Smith, who played 54.8% of its violative snaps successful 2024. Julian Hill has operated arsenic Miami's superior blocking choky extremity and returns successful 2025, and the Dolphins swapped retired Durham Smythe for escaped cause signee Pharaoh Brown, who is besides known arsenic much of a blocker than receiver.

Third-year seasoned Tanner Conner, a converted assemblage wide receiver, and undrafted escaped cause Jaylin Conyers circular retired Miami's choky ends room.

The choky extremity has fared good successful Arthur Smith offenses, including an eight-touchdown play successful 2020.

The Steelers, though, don't person a glaring request astatine the choky extremity position. Pittsburgh signed 2021 second-round prime Pat Freiermuth to a four-year, $48 cardinal hold past offseason, and they besides instrumentality 2023 third-round prime Darnell Washington and 2022 sixth-round choky end/fullback Connor Heyward. Pittsburgh besides signed erstwhile Chargers choky extremity Donald Parham Jr., who has 11 vocation touchdowns, earlier this offseason.

The Steelers carried 4 choky ends connected their 53-man roster past season. The lone departure from that radical was MyCole Pruitt, who wasn't re-signed aft initially joining the Steelers connected a one-year declaration past season.

Like Jonnu Smith, Pruitt had a agelong past with Arthur Smith and played for him successful some Tennessee and Atlanta.

ESPN's Brooke Pryor contributed to this report.