Ben Sims never needed highlight-reel receiving numbers to earn a place in Green Bay. The former Packers tight end was a blocking specialist and special-teams staple who carved out two-plus seasons in Titletown after arriving as a waiver claim.
This week, his brief Miami chapter closed the same way so many NFL depth jobs do: with an injury settlement and no regular-season snaps.
The Dolphins released Sims from injured reserve on Sept. 10 after reaching a settlement, according to transaction reports.
Miami had signed the 26-year-old to a one-year deal in March, reuniting him with new general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan, who knew Sims from his time as Packers vice president of player personnel. The hope was that the 6-foot-5, 250-pound Baylor product would give Miami in-line blocking depth. He never got the chance.
Sims was waived/injured as the Dolphins trimmed to 53, reverted to IR when he went unclaimed, and is now free to sign elsewhere once healthy.
For Packers fans, the news lands as another reminder of how quickly the roster turns. Green Bay claimed Sims off waivers in August 2023 after Minnesota cut the undrafted rookie. He joined a tight-end room that also featured rookies Tucker Kraft and Luke Musgrave and immediately found a role.
Sims played all 17 games as a rookie and again in 2024, contributing mostly as a blocker and on special teams—especially kick return, where he logged every snap for a unit that led the NFL in return yards in 2023.
His lone Packers touchdown remains the signature moment. In Week 13 of 2023, Jordan Love found him against Kansas City at Lambeau Field. Sims finished the play with a Lambeau Leap. It was the kind of small, lasting image that sticks with a role player who rarely saw targets.
Across his Green Bay years he finished with eight catches for 63 yards and that one score before the Packers waived him on Oct. 25, 2025, to activate Christian Watson. Minnesota claimed him two days later.
Career totals through 2025: 45 games, eight starts, 11 receptions, 93 yards, one touchdown. The production was never the point. Sims was the extra body who could seal the edge and cover kicks. That profile traveled with him to Miami, where Sullivan tried to recapture a known commodity.
An injury—reports during camp pointed to turf toe—ended the experiment before Week 1.
Sims is a free agent again, still early in a journeyman career that has already looped through Minnesota twice, Green Bay, and now Miami. Packers fans who remember the Leap and the dirty work on special teams will watch to see where he lands next.
For a player who made his living on the margins, the margins keep moving.
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