When the Miami Dolphins traded for Minkah Fitzpatrick, they knew they were getting a good player who also came with some baggage. There were knocks on him in Pittsburgh, and Dolphins fans could only shake their heads knowing it would bubble to the surface.
Fitzpatrick wasn't one of those guys in the locker room that players looked up to for leadership, but his return to the franchise that drafted him is turning into something else, something needed. Fitzpatrick is becoming the leader that he wasn't in Pittsburgh.
After the team's week 13 victory, Mike McDaniel named him in his postgame locker room speech.