Former Texas Tech star Jordyn Brooks signs a three-year, $51.3 million Dolphins extension after leading the NFL in tackles and earning All-Pro honors last year.
Texas Tech has another linebacker getting paid like one of the NFL’s elite.
Former Red Raiders star Jordyn Brooks has agreed to a three-year, $51.3 million contract extension with the Miami Dolphins, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
The deal reportedly includes $35 million guaranteed and keeps Brooks in South Florida beyond the 2026 season.
Miami isn’t paying for potential. It’s rewarding production that was impossible to ignore.
Brooks delivered the finest season of his six-year NFL career in 2025, leading the league with 183 combined tackles and 99 solo stops.
He earned first-team All-Pro recognition and his first Pro Bowl selection while adding 13 tackles for loss, 3.5 sacks, three pass breakups, one forced fumble and a fumble recovery.
For a Dolphins franchise beginning a new chapter under head coach Jeff Hafley, Brooks gives the defense an established centerpiece instead of another rebuilding project.
He’ll also have a familiar face joining him.
Former Texas Tech linebacker Jacob Rodriguez is entering his rookie season with Miami, placing him in the same room as one of the most accomplished defenders to come through Lubbock.
Brooks can now serve as both the Dolphins’ tackling machine and a valuable mentor for the next Red Raider attempting to establish himself in the NFL.
Brooks has been remarkably dependable since signing with Miami before the 2024 season.
He started all 34 games across his first two years with the Dolphins and piled up 326 tackles, 24 tackles for loss, 6.5 sacks, 10 quarterback hits, nine pass breakups and two forced fumbles.
That kind of availability matters almost as much as the numbers.
The Dallas native began his professional career after Seattle selected him in the first round of the 2020 NFL Draft.
Brooks spent four productive seasons with the Seahawks and led the NFL in solo tackles in 2021 before betting on himself in free agency and joining Miami.
That gamble clearly paid off.
Brooks entered the final year of his contract with the leverage of an All-Pro season and turned it into long-term security.
The Dolphins avoided letting the heart of their defense reach the open market, while Brooks landed a deal that reflects his standing among the NFL’s most productive linebackers.
Texas Tech fans already knew Brooks could hunt down ball carriers. Now the rest of the league knows it costs more than $17 million per year to keep him doing it.
