Update -- Jarvis Landry signed his franchise tender

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The Miami Dolphins have given Jarvis Landry permission to seek a trade, and Landry plans to work with the Dolphins in helping facilitate one, a league source fully briefed on the situation said Thursday.

Landry plans to sign the franchise tag - a necessary step before he can be traded - and that’s expected to happen soon.

Landry’s agent, Damarius Bilbo, and the Dolphins met Wednesday in Indianapolis, and the Dolphins informed Bilbo that they would not be making a longterm contract offer to Landry at this time, if at all.

The Dolphins also said they would be OK with Landry playing next season with the $16 million franchise tag if a trade cannot be facilitated.

But make no mistake: The Dolphins clearly prefer to trade Landry and are pursuing efforts to accomplish that, as The Miami Herald’s Armando Salguero reported earlier this week.

The Dolphins are seeking a draft pick or a player in exchange for Landry. Chicago is among teams that has emerged as a possibility.

 

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Dolphins wide receiver Jarvis Landry‘s failure to sign his franchise tender caught some notice this week as it was expected he was going to do it soon after receiving the tag from Miami, but it’s not something to think about any longer.

According to multiple reports, Landry has now officially signed the tender. That shouldn’t change much about the immediate plans for the Dolphins, however.

As we reported on Wednesday, Landry had already accepted the tender. That means it was binding in terms of guaranteeing his $15.9 million salary for the 2018 season as well as leaving him open to being traded by the Dolphins.

There have been multiple reports about the Dolphins’ interest in doing that, including one that had the Dolphins giving Landry the green light to seek out and facilitate a deal to another team. Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald reports that no trade is imminent at the moment, however.