The Dolphins were smacked with substantive penalties, including the loss of draft picks, by the NFL on Tuesday following a league investigation into tampering charges against the organization.
However, those penalties will not extend to Tom Brady and Sean Payton, whom the Dolphins spoke with despite their being under contract elsewhere, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport.
The NFL found that Miami had impermissible contact with Brady while he was under contract to the Patriots in 2019 and ’20 and again after the ’21 season, when he was under contract to the Buccaneers.