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Defensive line help keeps flowing onto the Dolphins' ever-evolving roster.

Wednesday night it was controversial former Saints defensive end Charles Grant who was reportedly headed to Miami. Grant, entering his ninth season, has signed a two-year deal that could be worth up to $4.5 million, according to NFL.com.

E-mails to Grant's agents seeking confirmation were not immediately returned.

In March he was released three years into a seven-year, $63 million contract with the Saints that paid him $20 million in guaranteed money.

Grant was cleared in May of an involuntary manslaughter charge in his home state of Georgia. That charge dated to a February 2008 incident in a Blakely, Ga., nightclub in which Grant was stabbed in the neck and a 23-year-old pregnant woman died.

Grant paid a $1,000 fine for public fighting and $20,000 to cover the cost of the investigation by the sheriff's office.

The veteran lineman, who turns 32 on Sept. 3, is apparently slated to stay at end even though he's moving from a 4-3 scheme to the Dolphins' 3-4 defense.The Saints, however, often used a three-man front, so the transition might not be as problematic for Grant, who has 47 career sacks and 16 forced fumbles.

Grant, a regular starter who suffered a season-ending triceps injury in Week 17 last season, missed the Saints' run to their first Super Bowl title. He was selected by the Omaha Nighthawks of the United Football League but did not sign.

A first-round pick out of Georgia in 2002, Grant had 5 1/2 sacks last year for the Saints, who replaced him with former Bears pass rusher Alex Brown this offseason.

Grant joins nose tackle Montavious Stanley and defensive end Marques Douglas as veterans who have signed with the Dolphins to replenish a unit depleted by the July 15 retirement of Jason Ferguson and the July 22 news that Phillip Merling, the projected starter at right defensive end, would miss the season with a torn Achilles' tendon.

Dolphins training camp opens Friday.

Grant received a four-game suspension after a positive drug test in 2008. He has yet to serve that suspension because of a lawsuit filed by a pair of Vikings players against the makers of the supplement in question.

Once the Dolphins sign their top two draft picks, defensive end Jared Odrick and outside linebacker Koa Misi, and place Merling on injured reserve, they will still be one player over the 80-man limit for training camp. It's possible they will release one of their other defensive linemen.

For now, Grant joins a crowded group of options to start opposite Kendall Langford. Ikaika Alama-Francis, Ryan Baker, Lionel Dotson and Tony McDaniel also are in the mix at that spot.

[SecondHandJets]

I always liked him. Didn't know about the dead pregnant woman thing but I think he's a good addition to their shitty defense. He should help Misi break the sack record.

[FroNTROw50yRdLyNe]

F uck the dolphins

[santana]

Sheeeeeeeeet

[gmany3k]

when you have to play the best O line 2 times per year you can't relie on luck like last yrs 2 returns you have to get some players but will it be enough?

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gmany3k, on 30 July 2010 - 08:19 PM, said:

when you have to play the best O line 2 times per year you can't relie on luck like last yrs 2 returns you have to get some players but will it be enough?

tee hee.

[S-Dubb]

Superbowl time!

[518-JeTS-FaN]

the person responsible for those 2 return is gone, jets shutdown that lame kittykat offense. im not corned about fins i want to destroy the pats both games.