Dolphins drop Denton after brief NFL tryout

Friday, July 16, 1999 | 9:47 a.m.

So much for Jon Denton supposedly being groomed to replace Dan Marino one day.

The former Green Valley High School and UNLV star, who signed his first NFL contract with Miami on Monday, was waived by the Dolphins on Thursday following the team's quarterback camp.

The news obviously must have come as a shock to Denton's agent, Scott Saloman of Coral Springs, Fla., who earlier this week proclaimed that the Dolphins "really liked everything Jon Denton brought to the table."

Saloman, who also claimed Denton would have his locker next to Marino's so he could learn from the future Hall of Famer, didn't return a phone call to his Florida office.

Although the Denton story was big news in his hometown of Las Vegas, Dolphins public relations man Harvey Greene said it wasn't even a topic of conversation for Dolphins' head coach Jimmy Johnson on Thursday.

"(Reporters) really didn't ask him about it," Greene said. "It was just a transaction. Nobody made a big deal of it when he signed and nobody made a big deal of it when he was released. We sign free agents all the time for minicamps."

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