The Facts: The Dolphins are scheduled to meet with the agents for Stills while they are in Mobile, Ala., for Senior Bowl practices, according to league sources, with the hopes of setting a baseline starting point in negotiations in order to retain the wideout. "It's important for us to bring him back," general manager Chris Grier said. "We'd like to have him back. It's his right to test the market and see what he can get, but we'd like to have him back."
Diehards Line:Stills and Andre Branch, a defensive end, are the Dolphins’ free agent priorities, sources tell Herald staffer Armando Salguero. Both become free agents able to sign with any team this offseason if they remain unsigned. And so it is important these meetings are productive so that talks can proceed to the point neither player actually hits free agency when it begins. With Stills, the Dolphins obviously don’t want to lose a receiver who led the team with nine touchdown catches and became one of HC Adam Gase’s favorite players. If the Stills camp comes to the meeting with a price that is so beyond what the Dolphins are willing to pay their deep threat, then the team will likely wait for free agency to begin and hope the price they’ve set for the player is close to what the market dictates. If, however, the two sides are in the same zip code, then negotiations can move forward.