Miami ostensibly acquired Josh Rosen to be its quarterback of the future.

The present may not be included.

With the regular season fast approaching, the woebegone Dolphins seem to be leaning toward starting 36-year-old journeyman Ryan Fitzpatrick over the 22-year-old Rosen, whom they traded for at the 2019 NFL Draft.

“Sometimes guys are not ready,” first-year head coach Brian Flores told reporters Tuesday. “The whole sink-or-swim mentality — it’s easy for somebody on the outside to say. But for that individual player and the best interest of that individual person, that might not be the case.”

And so the Dolphins are spinning all of this as their version of the Green Bay Model — sitting a youngster behind a veteran with the expectation being Rosen will eventually take over for Fitzpatrick like Aaron Rodgers did for Brett Favre over a decade ago.

A similar process is beginning to unfold with the Giants. Unlike Big Blue, which by all accounts sees Daniel Jones as the answer to life after Eli Manning, it’s hard to believe Miami feels the way about Rosen.

In January, ESPN reported the Dolphins were preparing to tank this coming season for the 2020 draft’s top quarterback prospects: Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa and Oregon’s Justin Herbert. While the team denied that being so, starting the shaky Fitzpatrick would help solidify a path to the top of the draft boards.

In two preseason games, Rosen is 23-for-38 for 293 yards with no touchdowns and one interception, while Fitzpatrick is 5-for-14 with 40 yards.

“I don’t need any additional drive or hunger,” Rosen said when asked to respond to Flores’ comments. “I got plenty of chips on my shoulder. I’m trying to be the best player that I can be.”

Rosen has plenty of chips on his shoulder, indeed. He was selected by the Cardinals with the 10th pick in the 2018 NFL draft, struggled on a terrible team, and was then dealt to Miami for a second- and fifth-round draft pick after Arizona took quarterback Kyler Murray with the top pick in April.

If the former UCLA standout can’t find a way to start this season, some déjà vu may be headed his way next spring.