Dolphins 2022 Undrafted Rookie Class Breakdown with Emory Hunt

your Miami Dolphins. How's it going? Everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield, And on today's show, draft coverage rolls on here and in a lot of ways concludes here today as we welcome in Emery Hunt of CBS Sports HQ to break down the Dolphins U d f A class. We'll also talk about the draft class as well, but we'll get to his favorite tapes of the bunch after an introduction into the entire U d f A class.

All of that and heck of a lot more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime Podcast. Miami Dolphins. Bumped the mike a little bit there, but we're gonna go ahead and get this thing going with the Dolphins. T U d f A class went through the roster here. Looked up, some stats, looked up, some numbers looked up, some background, and of course went into PFF and of course went into the tape, and we kicked it off here with

running backs. The Quandre White, running back from South Carolina who toted the rock eight eight times for five eighty three yards last season. That's six point six yards per carry. Also caught nineteen for two oh two. This guy was a top one fifty overall recruit nationally out of North Fort Myers High School, just a little bit west to

us here down in the south of Florida. Committed to Florida State, switched to linebacker his freshman season and played special teams for eleven games before transferring to Iowa Western Community College, where he flipped back to running back and became a first team All American at the junior college level, and then transferred to South Carolina last year. Four point six one average yards after initial contact. That was third most young backs who had at least eight carries last

year in college football. He had multiple ten plus yard runs in five of his nine games, thirteen of them on total of eighty eight total carries, I should say, and on those eight carries forced twenty nine missed tackles. Watching the tape, quick decision making reads his blocks, reads the leverage, and doesn't get wide eyed when he sees

the cut back lane developed. He rather will press downhill, get towards the line of scrimmage, and then once he squeezes every ounce he can out of the idea that I'm going this direction, opens up the hips, gets to the cut back lane with burst and finds a way to get to space I mean average yards after contact the ten plus yard runs. It was an effective running back last year for South Carolina. Interesting player coming over here in the undrafted free agent realm. Next tight end

Tanner Conner out of Idaho State. Now, I could not flag down Idaho State tape, but he caught thirty four balls for six five yards and three touchdowns and just six games last year had thirty four for six eighty five and three scores. Back in twenty he was a state hurdle champion in Washington State. Went to high school in Kent, about five minutes from where I used to

work at a car dealership out in Kent. Small world. There. Again, wasn't able to flag down tape of tan Er Connor by No fans are excited about the height, weight speed combination that he offers. Interesting looking prospect there also at wide receiver Braylon Sanders out of Old Miss caught twenty four for five forty nine four touchdowns last year and a dot of twenty one point three yards and then twenty two yards of the year prior eight teen point

six average depth of target in his career. He got vertical a lot in that Old Miss offense for four eight forty thirty four and a half inch fort hundred twenty one inch broad at six fe explosive, explosive, explosive traits. He was on Good Morning Football talking with the Breakfast Table, including a really cool sound bite on deep ball tracking and PFF love that area of his game. Ninety three point seven receiving grade on passes of twenty or more yards.

He caught six such balls for two hundred and seventy nine yards that's forty six and a half per reception and three touchdowns and a solid six point six yards after the catch average, So he can get vertical, can break tackles and make plays after the catch. And I just watching his tape thought he was super polished, and the way he runs his routes, particularly on verticals, I

thought he utilized pacing while working at full speed. What you know, subtle eyes, eyes to the outside when I want to go inside the head nod to sell that fake where he would widen to flatten up the stem.

And what that means is, let's say I want to attack inside leverage on a vertical route like a skinny post or a post in general, and the cornerback has certain landmarks where he's kind of reading my route to see where I want to get well, he would he would press the toes and then show a kind of a widened step to the inside and then flatten that thing back out and that kind of creates some in decision from the cornerback, and so he would use that

pacing without losing speed to put them in some peril. And we talked about this on the Spaces Show prior to the draft with o J McDuffie about the importance of playing at full speed and everything you do, and o J talked about coming off the ball with the same type of intent every single play because it's not

just about you, it's how the entire offense functions. You've gotta be a good teammate and so when you come off the line hard every play, you can help sell a route, which can create space underneath for a different route that kind of comes into that vacancy. You can create an ax or access a lane in the running game by doing that, and I see a lot of

that on Sanders tape. Everything is fast, urgent, and at full speed, and this helps him set up double moves to get vertical, which of course leads to those deep numbers that we gave you. And there's a catch he made against Alabama that is absolutely ridiculous, completely covered. They converted a potential go ball to a back shoulder that

was locked down by the Alabama cornerback. But the ball's ticketed for the first row of the bleachers, and he just reaches out there with one big paw and snatches that thing and pulls in. Absolutely absurd. Go find it if he can't end on the offensive line. Interesting players here, man, there was some some good tape on the guys I

watched are on the offensive line. And this is gonna be the section talking about Ty Clary from Arkansas with the Dolphins waived him for he filled physical over the course of the weekend at rookie minie camp and replaced him with Cole Banwart, who spent parts of the last season on the practice squads of the Vikings and Giants, but did not appear in a regular season game. Originally came into the National Football League at U d f

A with the Titans. Back one played his college ball at Iowa, where he earned third team All American and second team All Big Ten honors as a senior. In also, just looking over the rookie Mini camp roster and the tryout roster that was on there, some interesting names. I thought that we didn't get a chance to plug into the podcast, But now with this edit for the Tye Clary, we'll go ahead and make that happen. K J. Hill

first stands out from Ohio State. He was drafted in the seventh round a couple of years back and has played some games, has ten career catches, played some special teams, returned some punts, and just going back to his Ohio State tape, I was a big fan of the ability to run mesh and just run those crossing routes right in over that linebacker in the middle of the football field, catch the ball and get upfield for some big yak some immediate rack in his game. And then also Sam

Bill formerly of the New York Giants. Was a pick in the supplemental draft class, the first pick in the third round that year or the year he got drafted. The forfeit the future draft pick in that position when you go that way via the supplemental draft. But he's a guy that had some smooth feats and playmaking ability out of Western Michigan. Never really stuck there for the Giants.

But those are two guys that came in on the tryout list, and there was a couple of other veterans as well there over the course of the weekend and have a chance to make this football team. We'll come back and talk more minicamp in just one second, but now we go to Arizona State for Kelln diash and man, his work really throughout the course of his career was impressive. Highest rated tackle in the pack twelve last year by Pro Football Focus was the eighteenth highest grade tackle among

Power five schools and second in the pack twelve. Two year starter, sixteen career starts at left tackle for the Sun Devils. Eight pressures allowed on four hundred and thirteen pass blocking snaps. That is a Sterling point seven pass block efficiency rate. Twelve pressures in his career on five D ninety three snaps also point seven and Pro Football Focus liked his game so much they tagged him with a blue grade. It's an elite score eighty nine point four last year is reserved for the best of the

best performances. In fact, it was sixth best in the country last year and in the company of Zac tom Abe Lucas, and Bernard Raymond who were all drafted. Lots of players who heard their name called on draft weekend. First thing that jumps off the tape is a quick feet, the ability to stay square under the hips, hips, under shoulders, etcetera, etcetera. And after initial contact with counter moves, he just gets the feet cranking again, get the typewriter feet going again.

Doesn't bend at his waist, but takes a lot of the force and impact on the knees. Want to be a knee better, not a waste beender, and that shows up in his ability to get wide out in space. And then just from an experience standpoint, I thought he was pretty refined on tape. You'll see him bluff the punch, raw the hands of the rusher and then swipe those things down and say no, no, no, no, not so fast.

Had a nine seven three relative athletics score, and there were just three categories where he didn't score in the green the top of the top percent taller better. There were just three categories where he didn't score in that

green elite category. Among fellow tackles. It was weight, arm legs and three cone, but thirty two point five inch vert nine two on the broad again both in the eighty five or better percentile, and then a forty yard dash of four eight nine was percentile so to where his twenty yard split and ten yards split as well as his shuttle runs. So the athletic ability on the tape, on the testing, and you'll hear Emory talk about this here in just a second, about certain players at certain

positions at certain schools. One of those is defenders from Utah. He talked about in Kyle Whittingham's program. Go watch Kellen's tape against Utah. It's teaching tape. He was ESPNS rated prospect heading into the draft, winds up in Miami as a U d f A the third offensive lineman Blaze Andrews from Minnesota. A more fun tape here. He played every position except for center at Minnesota. Five starts at left tackle, eleven at left guard, twenty one at right guard,

and nine at right tackle. Seven pressures and no sacks allowed last season per Pro Football Focus on two nine pass blocking snaps point seven p B seven point seven pass block efficiency for his career. Excuse me. With thirty two pressures and just under hundred snaps. The guy that goes six ft sixty pounds ran a five one seven forty it's good for a nine eight one r a s and like Dish, just destroyed the forty yard and ten and twenty yards splits opening game of the season

last year, starts at left tackle against Ohio State. Played right tackle and right guard as well in the same game and had good reps to each spot. We talked about the athletic traits, but he was moving some bodies for some big runs and power runs down around the goal line. They rushed for two oh three and three touchdowns in that game, and Andrew's was in the middle

of a lot of it. There's a big block in the first quarter where he helps the chip up front and then climbs the linebacker and by at the end of it. On a third and four, the bat goes untouched until after the sticks because Andrews wiped out two defenders. Man. He plays low, he plays in control. He doesn't lose balance when he latches on and then disengages to climb

to another block. Really fun tape at Minnesota. There on the defensive side, Ben Still, the defensive lineman from Nebraska, had twenty nine and a half tackles for lost, fourteen and a half sacks in five seasons with the corn Huskers last year. Six ft five pounds, he can play defensive and can play defensive tackle. Had forty two tackles last year, including six for a loss, one and a half sacks and three p ds. Getting a big pause up there. Grip strength and pad level where the two

notes I kept going back to. Remember great gains from U dub coming out a couple of years ago. Now with a Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams, Remember how he just won rep after rep at the Senior Bowl with those two things. Snatch and pull that guy down to the ground. Lot of reps and stills Nebraska tape where he's doing something similar. Snatch him, get your eyes in the ball carrier, disengaged, make the play defensive lineman

Jordan Williams from Virginia Tech via Clemson. You want to talk about a one gap penetrator guy that he was there in college. He was so quick, such initial burst off the line, that first step man. It created a lot of urgency and they used that quickness a lot with games up up front with him as the looper working off that pick from the nose. Tackle eleven games last year, twenty eight tackles, three for loss, one and

a half sacks. Before that, he was at Clemson and had fifty five tackles, nine and a half tackles for lost, four sacks, two pass breakups, and a forced fumble last year. Quarterback pressures and Running game twenty five QB pressures twenty one run stops. Well rounded game for Jordan Williams. Another defensive lineman, Owen Carney out of Illinois, local Miami product down here attended Miami Central High School. Six ft three to sixty five, forty four tackles last year seven and

a half for lost, six sacks. He had nineteen tackles for loss in fourteen and a half sacks and five seasons for the line. I uh, let's see thirty seven pressures seventeen run stops and uh last season career pressures on one thousand reps, he was in the ballpark of a ten percent pressu or rate. Basically every single year power player who really bullied his way into a lot of production, used every bit of that two hundred and sixty five pounds to lean on guys and kind of

reset that pocket. And now a linebacker guy from Miami as well, Miami Southbridge High School product DeAndre Johnson, who played at Miami via Tennessee, was a transfer. Twenty six tackles, eight and a half for a loss and four and a half sacks in his blowing season with the Hurricanes last year. Before that four years at Tennessee where he had ten sacks. He was part of the local Miami

players workout here. Twenty five pressures last year on two hundred and sixty three pass rush reps, also made eight teen run stops. The length stands out first and foremost thought. He showed active hands the ability to kind of redirect as a pass rusher. Again, always a cool story when a local kid comes home and the defensive backfield cornerback cater Caho Cohu from Texas and m Commerce did some returning.

In addition to his cornerback duties four four five forty track team there twenty four total tackles too, for lost six pass breakups, had an eight point six rass relative athletics score hard exceptional explosive metrics in the forty had a thirty eight and a half inch vert ten ten broad but also threw up nineteen reps on the bench press, and you'll see that strength, and you'll hear Emery talk

about him here in just a moment. But the limited tape I saw showed some ball skills, so much so that he even played some wide receiver for them last year. The way he changes directions and transitions from back pedal to coming back down the stem that really stood out in his game. Too impressive. Safety out of Oregon Rone McKinley the third eleven career picks, six last season, seventy seven tackles in a fourth fumble last year, just seventeen

of twenty nine passes completed on him in coverage. That's fifty eight point six percent. Also just two hundred nine yards on five hundred and thirty three coverage snaps, and an NFL pass A rating of sixty four point four. He also had fourteen run stops coming from depth, making those plays down around the line. Last year, they used him on pass rush reps twenty five times, where he had to his entire career before that, and he picked up six QB pressures, including a hit on the quarterback.

All about instincts from McKinley. Studious player who could anticipate and make is based on recognition of the route concept and play design to put himself in position to make enough plays. And cornerback Elijah Hamilton from Louisiana Tech via Vanderbilt was a transfer for one year. Six ft two had four pass breakups in his career, allowed just ten of twenty two completions last season for a hundred and sixty three yards on a hundred and fifteen coverage snaps.

Another athletic tester here eight seven two r A A s eighty five percentile or better and height weight bench vert or height weight bench and vertical I put bench twice for some reason. Big, big defensive back with a corner and safety experience competed his butt off at the catch point and showed a real natural ability to rake the hands and separate the receiver from the football. At that catch point, big hitter and to boot show the ability to come from that depth and cut down ball carriers

around the line of scrimmage. Finally, special teams punner Tommy Heatherly Florida International University, Londar local product forty six point four yards per put, four point eight in his career. Good stuff. They're fun class. Can't get can't wait to get a chance to watch these guys at rookie mini camp and O t s and of course in training camp.

Let's go ahead and take our first break here and come back with my guest today, the great Emery Hunt from CBS Sports HQ Draft Time Podcast Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation and joining me now on the Drivetime podcast once again. Is the owner of the football game plan. He does color commentary, and he's in studio analysts analyst, I should say, for CBS Sports HQ, anywhere there's a football game being played, you can find him.

He's the czar of the playbook himself. Emery Hunt, Emory, Welcome back in Man. Glad to be here man, always the pleasure to talk some ball. I love these podcasts because you do a good job of educating us on players that maybe we're not as familiar with throughout the

course of the college football season. I have a joke in here about a college I made up about you probably have tape on that college and you do a way of of getting us information on these players, like a guy we're gonna talk about later on from Texas and m Commerce. But before we get to that, I want to ask you, man, how how's the draft for you? You know, I I teach you about that that college it was Alaska Anchorage, ukon Sidlelit campus. I'm sure you have tape on them. Uh. Emery was the one to

get the scouting report on that guy, of course. But before we do that, how does it feel to be on the other side of the draft to know that it's in the rear view mirror right now? You know it's It's good because you put a lot of work into the draft. I had a draft I will still do have the Draft Guide. It's the largest draft guide and Draft guard history. It's over a thousand individual prospects

scouting reports. No one has that. So for me, when guys were flying off the board, it was easy for me just to you know, pull up where they what I had on them, or even when guys are starting to quickly sign undraft the rookie free agents, you still have a lot of you know, grades and reports on these guys. So for me, it's fun just to see the work that you put in and see it on

the outside of the other side of it. Um. But you know, for me, my draft brads don't come out until after rookie Minicamp because I count the undrafted rookie free agents as a part of the draft class because that's that's a vital part some teams strategy or or you know, geared towards that way. So once I know what these trial guys who made it who didn't, and the undrafted rookies are locked in, then I throw up my draft grades because you gotta really evaluate the entire

class as opposed to guys who just got selected. I'll be sure I'll drop a link on that when it comes out, because you know, I think the draft grade community has become one of hot takes, much like a lot of our industry here, Emery, that's what we love having someone like you on that can get into the depths of this and really give us a solid sound reasoning on why you believe the things that you do.

And before we get to the U d f A class, let's talk a little bit of draft here, because the Dolphins did have four picks and it began at pick number one oh two with Channing Tindall out of Georgia. Which pick between Tendaal, eric A Zukama, Skylar Thompson a camera good out of cow which pick made you most excited here for the Miami Dolphins. You know, the Tendell pick was was solid because it's someone that's he's a point and shoot linebacker. When you when you were watching Georgia,

you just gotta kind of game away impressed with Tendoll's explosiveness, acceleration. Um, he's a seeking distr roy players zone coverage a little bit, you know, um, work in progress. But for the most part, I thought this was someone that pairs up perfectly with the Jerome Baker. He seems to be a really good blitzer. He's gonna be someone that's gonna be very good versus the run. Teams try to run outside, He's gonna be

able to to run those guys down. And I thought, um, you know, the Thompson pick was was an interesting one because he was my number three quarterback in this class. So I like Thompson a lot of you know, for him, it's just about staying healthy. But when he was out there, he was moving to football. Um. He's got good athleticism. He can make all the throws. This game reminded me a lot of Derek Carr. So I was impressed with

him at Kansas State. I thought he would have came out last year, but he had those injuries, so he kind of came back for another season, you know, and put together some solid tape. And I feel like this guy's living for him and when you talk to him, you realize he gets it. He understands h what a quarterback should be and how an offense should run. Um and zu Kama is zoo phenomena if I pronounced that correctly. Um.

He's someone that breaks a lot of tackles. So you don't not only see that when you're talking about Texas tech wide receivers, you're talking about someone that's just like you know, can beat you deep down. The fielding is a vertical grip. He's someone that once he gets the football in the stands, you better bring your your shoulders with your arms because he's he's gonna break those tackles and it's gonna be a really good run after catch option. Yeah.

I posted a picture of him in the Houston game last year where he took a little tunnel screen and there was five cougars in the ground around him while he's still on his feet and he turns a negative two yard passed into a thirty three yard game and it was it's fun to watch that. You also talk about watching the tape of of Skylar Thompson. Uh, you know, Mike McDaniel praised the passion with which he plays the game. I think you kind of hit on hit on that

a little bit there too. There's a fourth and two conversion against l s U in the ball game where he he gets out wide, he makes a couple of guys miss and lunges for the first down sticks and you see the sideline of Kansas State just absolutely erupt. So you know how much it means to a team when the quarterback makes plays with their legs. He certainly can do that. And we're both looking here at the list and this the reason we have you on every single year. Emory of Miami Dolphins U d F as

this year. Just off the top, which name jumps out immediately to to you a guy that you think could have heard his name called on draft weekend. I thought Brillian Sanders was gonna get his name called just judging by what he did, you know, during All Star Game circuit. I was at the NFL p A game and every time you looked up, this dude was making, you know, play after play, whether it was in one on one um or in seven on seven or in team versus team.

He was out there just making plays, just tracks the deep ball rather well. He got the call up to the Senior Bowl and was able to do the same exact thing in Mobile. So for me, I thought he put a put together enough positive momentum going into you know, the draft process from the All Star Game circuit to combine to get his name called. So for me, that was someone that I was shocked to see him I could draft, But landing in Miami could be an idea situation for I was looking at some of his numbers

Emory and and some of the deep ball tracking. His A dot was like almost twenty yards per attempt. He's a vertical receiver. I would assume based upon that and I was looking at some of the numbers that Pro Football Focus tracks and contested catches, and they said he never had a contested catch last season, But there was also a lot of balls that weren't contested that didn't land in his arms. So was he getting open a lot downfield? Maybe not connecting in college last year? Yeah,

he was getting open a lot. Man. And the thing is when you watch him run routes, you see his footwork, you see his ability off the line of scrimmage. He is someone that can win early and if you have a quarterback like toa is that can he sees it and he can get it to him quickly within the

mid part of that that route transition. It's it's hard to cover because you have the accuracy of tour with the release of someone like Sanders and it meets right there in the middle, and that's someone that can catch and go in. So he's he's gonna be a fantastic player to watch and track throughout the course of the training camp in preseason. Uh, you know with with the Dolphins. Yeah, I think that that kind of bottom end of the receiver depth chart is gonna be a fun competition this

this coming training camp. We know about Waddle Hill and Cedric Wilson and what those guys can do, and the rest of the roster, there's a plenty of guys that could could make their way and make some uh some noise as far as getting snap counts goes. It's good to hear you talk about that receiver making his plays and it sounds like he's kind of a fit to what we mentioned Hill and Wattle kind of do from

a skill set standpoint. Now, is there a guy on the other side of the football view like among this U d F a class with the Dolphins. Yeah, Kate our co Hole, the corner out of Texas in e commerce. Um. You know, he had a really good week at the Hula Bowl. But when I watched the West Florida game, and West Florida had a couple of prospects, Um had a really good quarterback who just transferred to Western Kentucky

and Austin read Um. But when you watch him compete there against some bigger wide receivers, he was able to hold his own, go down to the Hula Bowl, holds his own one on one in the game, and does a great job. He's coming out of Greek conference, a Long Star conference is one of the tougher D two conferences. To you know, his team UM is moving up to the FCS next year, UH to the Southland Conference. So there's a lot of talent there, and he has someone

that a play cover too. He's a good zone corner. He's he's you know, cooking clothes kind of guy, can drive one of football, is unafraid to to run up and make tackles in space, so he's a good physical player. UM. I like how he plays the sideline in terms of

turning and running with receivers. So he's someone that has a wide array of skills and I think initially he could be a core special teamer before working himself into a rotational player at the next So I was very impressive when he put out on tape at h at Commerce, but also what he did in the All Star Game. That's that's the exactly what you want to have happened

in U d f A S right. You want to have a guy that can come in and contribute in special teams and then also develop long term for a position and not to mention a premium position like an outside cornerback. Now I have a couple of follow up questions for you, There is he more outside as it? Can you play inside as well? I see him more as a slot corner. I can see him more as someone that that can really mirror and match on the inside. So when you have that footwork and have that ability,

we know the slot receiver position is a starter. So having someone that can mirror and what happens, uh, you know, mirror and what can potentially happen over the middle of the field. You want someone that can match that ability, and he definitely can do that. So I see him more. I see his value more on the inside and on the outside. That's interesting because I saw he was a four or four or five guy who was on the track team there at Commerce as well, So definitely doesn't

lack for speed. Do you think that the school he came from is the reason he didn't get drafted anything else? Probably so? And and this was a deep class in terms of corners and receivers. So we just talked about Sanders not getting drafted. Um, not surprised that, you know Cohen didn't get drafted as well. Uh, coming from a small school without the quote unquote measurables in the NFL will tend to let you slide and try to use your services freely um as an undrafted free agent, but

the talent is definitely gonna be there. And there's a reason why he was able to get signed and not on a you know, invite base. He was someone that they probably targeted and was probably talking to in round six, in round seven and getting him under contract here as an undraft free agent shows you how much they thought out of his game coming out. Yeah, those priority U d f A s and you could talk about going

from a jump in competition. He's gonna go from Texas A and M Commerce to playing in the same room as Xaviing Howard Byron Jones and oh, by the way, I gonna get coached by Patrick Sir Tannin Sam Madison as well. So not bad company there for cater Cohoe out of Texas and Commerce. Let's go ahead and take our first break. Will come for our second break, I should say, and we'll come right back here and talk some more U d F A class with the great

Emery Hunt. All right back here for our third segment of the Drive Time podcast, brought to you by Auto Nation. I am your host, Travis Wingfield. I am joined by the great Emery Hunt from CBS Sports HQ. Emery just kind of generally speaking here because we do this podcast every year. We go to this list. You hit some home runs for us. Man, you tell us about what

to expect in the U d f A class. But someone that's been around the league and been around college football and been around players that have to take this path, which is a difficult path to to carve a rollout in the NFL. What is the main thing a U d f A can do to stick around and make themselves known among the coaching staff and just put themselves in possession to go from U d f A to a guy that's on a roster come September. Just make

a play a day. Have them constantly talk about yourself in your game, make them say your name every day in a positive way. Obviously. So if you can make a play a day, no matter what it is, whether it's on special teams, whether it's a big catch or a big pass breakup or a big run, whatever the case, you want to make a play a day, and you stack up those play of days and at the end of camp, it's hard to say, Man, this dude was

he was talked. We talked about him every day. Um, and showing up in practice is showing up in games. Uh we we we can't expose him to waivers. We gotta keep and we gotta have him on a team. So we gotta put him on a roster. So as long as you go in with I gotta make at least one play a day. It makes it hard for the coaches and for the GM to be like, you know what, we we can move on from this guy. So just focus on one play a day and that

should help you out a long term. Yeah, make them want to work with you further, right, because if they're if they're thinking about maybe putting you on waivers and they say, well, that means we can't develop him further, make him want to develop you further. And on that same token, what's something you can avoid doing that would get you a quick ticket out of town? Like, what's one thing you would advise a U d F A

don't ever do that. Don't not take advantage of an opportunity. Um, you know, if someone, let's say, if you are we just talked about Coho and you know I see him as a slot guy, right, but if they need you to play outside, don't say, well, I'm just a slot guy. If you're a receiver and they need you to play

on the outside, well I only play on the inside. Coach, you gotta just do it, you know, figure it out on the fly, Show that you're coachable, Show that you're able to work through something, You're able to try something new and try to figure it out. But don't ever turn down an opportunity to get better. If you're a tackle and say hey stepping, they go a coach only play taple, step in their guard. You know, so do what you have to do to stay in the building.

And that's gonna be key and stay and stay in there. Their Lanta site too. If I ask you to do something means they want you to do it because you have a chance to go make a play. So that makes a lot of sense. Here, I wanted to ask you about just the class in general. Here you gave us two names, you gave us two breakdowns. But I was curious if you look at this list, if you see just any kind of themes or commonalities, Because you talked about Braylon Sanders his explosive speed, Tanner Connor out

of Idaho State. Was a hurdle, a high hurl jumper in high school, a guy that has explosive playmaking down the field too. So athletes at receiver, the offensive line class, Tie Clari out of Arkansas, Kellen dish Am I saying that right out of Arizona State, and then Blaze Andrews from Minnesota. Up front. We had Ben Still from Nebraska, Jordan Williams and Virginia tech, Owen Karney from Illinois off the edge, with DeAndre Johnson from Miami, a local kid

down here. You mentioned Kater Cohoe and then Verone McKinley and Elijah Hamilton with Tommy Tommy Heatherly the punter out of f I U. When you look at those lists, whether it's the offensive line trio or maybe the guys up front or in the defensive backfield, are there any commonalities you see that stand out among this Dolphins U d F A class that tells you, Okay, that's what they're going for in this class. At articism, UM, as much as people say it's a big man's game, is

more of an athletes game as well. You talked about Skylar Thompson. You talk about a Quandary White, the running back. He's someone that can also serve in a multitude of fashion. Um Connor, you see you can see someone catch a short pass and just explode through you know, coverage, you know, and he's someone who's gonna be another one of these guys had a chance to be a core special teamer. Um had a really solid week at the East West Rhne Bowl. So I think athleticism is what they were

focused on. Guys that can run, Guys that could do more than one thing, Guys that gives them a chance to be successful if the initial play how you drawed up on a white board doesn't go according to plan. So they look like they focused on athletes more than anything.

That's been kind of the theme all offseason. So it seems to check out there and to put a book on do talking about Channing Tendo, the first draft pick for the Dolphins, a superb athlete to now go into this position here with the U d f as one more question for you, Emory, want to get you out of here, because I want to go back to the offensive line group here, ty Clary, Kellen Dish, and Blaze Andrews from Minnesota among those three guys, is there anything

that stands out to you because no Dolphins. You know, Chris Greer talked about the offensive line being one of the deepest positions in this year's draft class, talked about having competition up there. These are the three guys that come away with any thoughts on the offensive lineman. Yeah. I thought Dice was a good player of tackle guy. I thought he was gonna get drafted. Um out of Arizona State. I talked to him at the East West

Rine but really fun dude to talk to interview. UM, it just had you know, we had a lot of fun there. And Andrews was my number eight guard. You know, I had a seventy seven and a half greade on him, so I thought highly of him. He's versatile, so again talk about that athleticism in verseatility, which is not a big thing that you see in this class. And his agility yields up to them probably playing guard also tackle.

So position flexibility, UM another strong. We get the East West Rhine Bowl and it's one of those situations where you know, it's I know I always say this, but it's it's a position at a certain school that it could be sight unseen if you talking about a Utah defender. If you're talking about you know, a receiver or someone from Sam Houston or an old lineman from b y U or Minnesota, I'm sold. I don't even have to

watch him play. You know, that type of UH program just turns you know, turns out those type of players. And Andrews with someone I thought highly up. He actually, like I said, my number eight guards, so he could play guard or tackle. And I just it's shocked that he went undrafted. But you know, you only there's only four pick so um guys are not gonna get drafted. But I thought that was a really solid pick up

for for Miami. Is that a conversation the teams have when you talk about, like, well, these guys are close on our draft board, but I know he was coached by Kyle Whittingham and that Utah defense, like you mentioned, that's got to be part of the conversation, right has to be, especially if you see it over time coach that have been in places for for years. You can also throw Wisconsin lineman, Wisconsin tight ends out there, Wisconsin running backs. You know what to expect you see right

now in the USFL. Garrett Grosher because a leading rusher for the Pittsburgh Motors and he was a fullback essentially at Wisconsin, but he's toting the rock for for Pittsburgh. So again, if you are at a certain program, it used to be Florida State corners, it used to be Florida State receivers UM. That's changed a little bit, but man like, certain programs just tend to pump out positions um at at high quality. You can't go wrong with

anyone on Utah's defense. You can't go wrong with anyone up front from Minnesota UM and Wisconsin just old line D line fullbacks and tight ends. You're gonna get those in spades coming out that Wisconsin badget programs. So yes, so certain programs you kind of know what you're gonna get. Notre Dame O Lineman. That's that's something that's been tried a true. So it does play into the factor of, hey, we know what this guy can do, especially if you

you brought up position coaches. If you know the position coach at the university, he's been there a long time. Absolutely, we know the type of work ethic, temperament and player that they produced and what the expectation is there, so we could feel comfortable taking this guy in regardless if you know we've seen him player or not, because we know at least from a foundational standpoint, what we're getting. Alright,

So I'm going down my checklist here. You said fullbacks at Wisconsin, alec Ingle, you said offensive line Wisconsin, and Michael Dieter an offensive lineman. No, Dame, Liam, I can. But we checked three of those boxes there. Emery Hunt from CBS Sports HQ, the Football game Plan, check him out. Those are of the playbook himself. Emory, appreciate your time as always, man. We got smart today on the podcast because of you. Always the playsure team. Man, appreciate you

bringing me on. And there he goes. Emory Hunts, CBS Sports HQ. Love those conversations, love getting into depth here. He even off the air. He was talking more about U d f A classes and how teams can get better in that regard. So he's all in. You hear him talking about the Hula Bowl, the NFL p A Bowl. Just it's to me, it's fascinating. I have this kind of ship eating grid in my face right now because you you know, you've been watching this game for however

long you have. For me, it's really since the nineties, and you know fans since the nineties, but really really focusing and studying and rewatching games and trying to get into the evaluation portion as a fan and as an amateur. I would say, like in two thousand and five, and you know, just thinking back to that era, we didn't have this kind of access to people that could tell us about a U d F A out of Texas

A and M commerce just it just didn't exist. So it's like like the fan of me, of both broadcasters and the game itself is is tickled pink by this podcast because we have a great chance to get educated by someone like Emery, but also just the access we have to the information is really really cool. So there's U d F A Podcast. We had to sit down with all the draft picks last week and just a

few notes from rookie Minicamp. Two things I noticed in terms of the draft picks was just how smooth and how fluid Channing Tindall is out on the football field. You can see his speed and his range. It stands out when watching him practice live. And then Eric Azu Kama is a big dude, and he also moves pretty well, but just the physical stature and the way he snatches the football and the way you could see him, you know, it's not against anybody on defense, but running on air.

Just the physical nature of his game. I think we could see him potentially utilize in a variety of roles, not just as a receiver, but in the blocking game, some of those nasty splits on those condensed formations, some crackbacks, fun stuff like that. The possibilities are endless there for a potential receiver four, receiver five, maybe receiver three. We'll see where he winds up making this roster and training camp.

That's a long ways off, but that was an initial impression was just how big and physical his stature was out on that practice field. Also got to kick out of the media availabilities with not just the players, but Matt Applebaumb talking some really good stuff. You can see it up on YouTube as well as on the I Believe Miami Dolphins dot com headed video of it of him talking about going over the tape last year, and it reminded me of what we talked about on the

tape on Every Tuesday podcast. How I could find forty five fifty good clips of well there's Austin Jackson, Leah Eikenberg, big rob Hunt, but there was just those one instances on too many plays where where there was a breakdown or a failure of communication or a guy that got beat. In particular rep he talked about the upside of this offensive line. I continue to look at that with this coaching staff and their experience, and you hope that a turnaround.

They're not a turnaround, but just improvement across the board from some of the guys up front could have major, major dividends for this football team. And then also just the way some of the guys moved out there. Talked about Kellen Dishes, his athletic ability, Andrew's blaze as well, are blaze Andrews my bad? Uh, the way those guys moved in the football field throughout the rookie mini camp and just the initial portions we had available to us.

Smooth movers man. They could get those reach blocks, they can get out in space, and they know how to position their hands. So some fun stuff over the weekend in the meantime, that is gonna be my time. You all please be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast. Leave us a rating, leave us a review. You can follow me on Twitter at Wingfield NFL. Follow the team at Miami Dolphins across all social channels I mentioned Seth and o J. Check out the fish Tank podcast.

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