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What is up Dolphins And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast. I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, we are covering the next two picks of your Miami Dolphins. We have five more players to break down. We'll do players three through five on the next episode. But today running back Jalen Wright, outside backer edge defender Mohammad Kamara from Tennessee and Colorado State, respectively. We'll dive into the film there. On those guys, we'll take a look at
the fit and the advanced metrics. As we do here on this podcast, we'll hear from the players as well as Mike McDaniel and Chris Greer from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
This is the Draft Time Podcast.
Heye, we got things started on Saturday with some fireworks, both with the trade up and the player selection. The Dolphins parlayed next year's organic third round draft choice. You cannot dip into the compensatory picks just yet. You can trade them down the road, but not just yet. They have to lock in half of the seasons over and they got themselves back into the fourth round to select an electric tailback in Tennessee's Jalen. Right, that's our second ja y l e N Jalen and our fourth overall
Jalen Jalen, Jalen Jalen. Five best rappers of all time Dilon, Dielon, Dielon, Dielon, and Dialon. Before we get to that thought real quick, we heard from both Mike McDaniel and Chris Greer. Let's go ahead and hear what they believe they achieved on Day number three in the twenty twenty four NFL Draft.
I think we've filled like we've had good football players, Guys that you know, we had targeted at positions we felt good about the contribute, Guys that we feel have upside. And again the most important that we always talk about competitive guys that love ball and that won't blink coming in here and we'll jump into the fray and be good teammates and it'll be fun watching these guys battle it out during training camp.
And we'll talk about this to go along in the podcast here. But all five players the Dolphins added on Day three across the board unanimously have a certain competitive spirit and toughness about them. And you read about that and all the scouting or the draft guides, all the anonymous scout quotes around the league, all that stuff kind of points to a certain type of player, which we know the Dolphins covid down here in Miami.
How much does this draft help the team win?
In twine twenty fourth, that was an important question and an important answer. Here's Chris Greer on just that.
We always feel that way, but it mains to be seen like no one's given anything, you know. Here, we have some good players on the roster here, and these guys are gonna have to work to beat them out and earn spots. But yes, we selected them because we feel that they have a chance to contribute.
But again, they have to earn it. Nothing's given.
And I think Mike and the staff have shown that over their two years here that you earn your playing time here.
We are going to get to the rest of the picks on Monday's podcast, Maleague Washington and Patrick mc morris, and then I have we haven't actually made the final pick yet I'm recording the podcast ahead of time, trying to get it out to you guys right at the conclusion of this draft.
But I'll go ahead and fill you in at the end of the podcast.
And who that is.
I'm sure you know you'll listen to the Draft Time podcasts and you don't know that the draft picks. That's there's no way you're a podcast fan who doesn't know the Dolphins entire draft class so far, Well up, did you guys at the end of the podcast, for posterity's sake. And of course, we have the expectation, you know, going back to the Jalen Wright move to trade up into the fourth round of this year's draft, we have the
expectation of third round compicks coming back next year. It always seemed to me like that cabinet of future third round picks was a good resource pool to dip into to go up and get a player they might like in this range of the draft. I'm surprised they pulled
it off without giving up any picks this year. And so you add a pick this year when you only had six going in, so seven total players from the class from a draft pool in twenty twenty five, where with the projected pick in each of the seven rounds plus your three compicks, you're projected to get had ten picks.
Now it's seven and nine in the.
Next back to back years after a couple of years of four and five picks in the draft. So Miami getting more and more rookies filling out that pipeline deeper and deeper to kind of continue the idea of sustained success down the road while you also compete and win. Now, we'll come back to that topic here just second here in the podcast as well, and speaking of all of that, before we get to the analysis on Tennessee running back
Jalen Wright. Here is Chris Career on the flexibility those third round picks gave the Dolphins in this year's draft.
You can't use it into toy picks until this time next year. So those, uh, the ones we anticipated were all protected, but it gave us some flexibility to move around. As we talked about us being active trying to move up in the draft previously. So but for us, we had jailing in on a visit here thirty visit, enjoyed spending time with him here. We spent a lot of time getting to know him. Uh and obviously you know his explosiveness on the field and what he does is
running back, his toughness. Again, it's another guy that you know it. Mike started really watching him, he was excited for you know, as well as our scouts identifying him. So again, it was the ability to add a good football player. And everything's about competition. It's a good group of guys, they understand that. So for us to add a good football player that we really liked and valued there on the board was an opportunity we couldn't pass.
I knew it.
I knew that was gonna happen as part of the draw of being so particular about protecting those conpensient with players that were cut with signing contracts under the threshold
that would qualify towards a compensatory formula. I thought it was kind of a master stroke in terms of how this was managed because those third round picks, yeah, they're valuable, top one hundred picks to get players on your roster, but the ability to be flexible with how they could give you that ammunition to go up in this year's draft or next year's draft, it's so valuable to me as part of that with you know, losing the key parts we did lose in Christian Wilkins, Robert Hunt, Andrew
Van Ginkel, replacing those guys with aggregate number of players and cheaper players and maybe some draft picks down the road, but also the idea of just creating more flexibility in the draft to give yourself the opportunity to identify a player you love and go up and get them.
There's value to all of that. So it's not just lost X, didn't gain Z.
Like.
There's a lot more nuance that goes into it than that, and I thought Miami did a good job of managing that and massaging what would ultimately become an additional draft pick that did not cost them any future picks in this year's draft, just in next year's draft. So we move on now to the twentieth pick of the fourth round, number one twenty overall Tennessee running back Jalen Wright, And wouldn't you know it, another player who was absolutely dying to come to Miami.
So I had a thirty visit with Miami. I mean, I make the whole style. It was cool.
I mean, as a team, I really wanted to go to, which is crazy. It's the best visit I had. I mean, I'm just glad, you know what I'm saying, just to have that eppistunity too, you know what I'm saying, come out in South Beast, you know, just to help make a difference in the team, you know, help add the exposive element.
So I plugged on the film of Jalen Right.
I watched him live this year, but didn't do tape on him until today because full transparency. The shortcut that I took, or one of them this year's draft class was at the running back position. That's why you never do that, because you never ever know what could possibly happen in the draft. And so I pull up the All twenty two from the Georgia game, and on the very first snap, the volunteers go duo, and what duo is is double teams from two players or there's two
double teams, I should say. On the offense, if line one isolation block and then from there you catch and climb to the second level and try to get up to the second level to hit secondary blocks to spring
your back into that second level of the defense. And from there they had split flow action which is the tight end going across the formation against the flow of the zone or the blocking scheme you have inside, and that's something Miami does tons and tons of and you can often look like those players can often look like
inside zone something else. The Dolphins do a whole heck of a lot of here under head coach Mike McDaniel and George's in man coverage in the corner running across the formation with the split flow tight end blocker over pursues this gap and there's this massive window for right to step into, and he.
Does just that. But it's not just stepping into that gap.
But what I love about his running style is that he presses this hole and forces the cornerback to be late on the decision or just to have the information as late as he possibly can, because he doesn't which way he's gonna cut because of pressing that hole, and I love that he's able to draw that cornerback inside and get a false step downhill from the last line of the defense the post safety in this case, which creates a poor angle and an opening play seventy five
yard touchdown on the to start the game against the team the number one team in the entire country, so very impressed by all of that. And speaking of you know, show him your tail lights type of speed, how about this. Wright scored a nine to seventy five on his relative athletic scorecard out of ten points. That's basically measuring all the measurements at the scouting combine in your pro day, and he's nearly perfect in the athletic measurements in that regard.
It's forty fourth going back to thirty six years of NFL scouting combines. That's out of over seventeen hundred running backs, he's forty fourth overall, and his eleven foot two broad jump was the second longest ever by a running back.
Explosive explosive player. But how about this?
You know, we called Devon ah Chan flat Stanley on the podcast last year, and I can't take credit for that because somebody else mentioned it on Twitter.
I forgot who it was.
But I think it's perfect because of his ability to hit tiny creases and explode through the other side unfazed. It's not that dissimilar for Jalen Wright and his skill.
Set that he features.
He told us that he the fastest time or the fastest speed he ever recorded, on GPS was twenty three point seven miles per or let me say that again for effect.
Twenty three point.
Seven miles per hour twenty two point three was the fastest NFL speed last year. Tyreek's fastest was twenty two point zero one and eight chance was twenty one point nine to three. This dude can flat out scoot, and he's also incredibly patient while also gaining ground towards the line of scrimmage. He knows how to press and scrape almost like a linebacker who does the exact same thing
on the other side of the ball. They want to get in tight to the blocker in front of them it's stacked up in a engage in a block and stay in tight to that so they can scrape off of that block and not catch the blocker on a catching climb or a double team. He does the same thing as like a running back or like a linebacker does at the running back position, and a lot of the runs for big gains were him hitting a gap and just running past guys in close quarters.
Getting off those arm tackles.
So he has the power and strength requisite to hit those explosive.
Runs in those tight areas.
He reminds me a bit of Raheem Moster and the way he blazes past guys and the way this run game springs runs where it's basically, here's some space, use your speed and your vision and your urgency and your decision making to go hit it at full speed, make guys miss at the second and third level. That's Jalen Wright's entire game. What a fun tape this was to
watch man. He also had twenty two catches. And this is where I like pairing him with Tua, because Tennessee would scheme up these quick throws like rail routes or flat routes or flares or swings where they would just flare it out to him on a dead sprint and
essentially get him on the perimeter. But via the passing game, and that also crosses over with the screen game, and Tua is so damn adept at putting the ball on the upfield shoulder right in line to keep you moving that you don't want to slow guy like Jalen right down. I don't think that that's going to be a problem for Tua at any point with this player the Dolphins.
The fit with the Dolphins is fantastic.
Because if you go to Sports infos Illusions, the ultimate statistical website, the Dolphins FAST twenty one personnel grouping, which is two backs, one tight end. But typically in that
grouping it's a running back and a full back. Fast twenty one means it's two half backs, two tailbacks, two running backs, ah Chan and Moster or a Chan and Right, and that package last year for the Dolphins, albeit not ran with a great abundance of frequency, was the most productive at over seven yards per play when they had that grouping on the field, that was largely most Are and eight Chan together, and of course we had several
games where one of those guys was not available. So now with Jalen Wright, you protect your most productive grouping in the event that you don't have most or a Chan for a game or even you know, knock on wood an extended period of time, he had more runs right did with five or fewer defenders in the box than he did seven plus. And that's what you're gonna get down here with the speede how in the perimeter.
And that's because the Tennessee offense, much like Miami, stretched the field as well as anybody in the last two years, especially two years ago when they had Jalen Hyatt, a I think third round pick of the New York Giants. Well, you know who's faster than the Tennessee volunteers the Miami
Dolphins from the same grouping in the passing game. His speed to stretch the defense, but also the presences you have that can occupy that space in the middle of the field were two excels as much as any quarterback in the NFL.
Right the middle of the field. Now you've got multiple angle.
Slash Texas route options, guys that can widen the linebacker and cross face and hit big plays on short passes over the middle. You have a tried and true productive spot up tight end as it were in John hus Smith. And then you know how Tyreek and Wada stressed the middle of the field as well. I'm so pumped for this.
Let's go ahead and hear from Jalen Wright on how his time in Knoxville at Tennessee and the versatility they had there prepared him for coming to the NFL and one of the more diverse complex running systems under Mike McDaniel in the National Football League.
Rusty my sophomore year, junior year, I mean, we have receivers in space out of the field. I mean, that's just something that Dolphins really good. You know, just space out the field, you know, get defenses to get out of Cover more and Cover three, you know, get THESS to.
Play cover two and cover four. I mean, it's she's doing great.
Bigger opportunities for the running backs, bigger it's supposed to play.
That's a lot.
That's what I really a lot of I had a lot of a lot of things like that happen in Tennessee, and I feel like that's gonna be good in Miami.
So let's go ahead and pause right there, take our first break of this episode, come back and talk about new Dolphins running back Jalen right more. On the other side, We're also going to talk about Mohammed Kamara, the edge from Colorado State, and give you some more general draft thoughts. We'll hear more from McDaniel and Chris Careeer, including how they feel this year's class has nothing to do.
With or not nothing to do with. Is all about winning.
This year and the idea of being a sustained winner for a long time. All of that, more, all of that and more next here on the Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Picking it back up here recap the first two picks of Day three of the twenty twenty four NFL Draft for Miami Dolphins. We're talking about new running back Jalen Wright, and from.
Pro Football Focus. Here's what their scouting report read.
I forget who the lead draft analyst is there now, but his calling card is his explosiveness. His first step, lateral or linear, is eye popping. He pairs that with the NFL level top gear to eat up open space, good hands as a receiver, and his explosiveness makes him a sharp route runner. He was one of the best backs in the country in pass protection due to his size and strength.
What's the hang up here, guys.
I'm not saying you guys have one, but like three down player pass, pro pass game, physical, home run speed, what's not to like?
The data on him.
PFF had him in the ninety eighth and ninety six percent Tile in zone running game grade and gap running game grade. Those are the two schemes you run man and gap or man in zone I should say, I mean, what do we.
Say about scheme versatility?
How about a ninety two percent tile in average yards after contact as well. That four point three five yards after contact on average was third in college football. Last season, he hit ten plus yard runs on twenty four point eight percent of his runs.
That was tops in college football.
He forced forty three mess tackles last season. That was tied for thirtieth among backs in college football. We know this team can run to the perimeter, but here's a crazy one for you guys, and this might satisfy some of the what are you going to do on third and one situations? Or the power game? Here are Jalen Wright's attempts and yards per gap in twenty twenty three.
We know the gaps are the A gap is the one between the center and guard, the B gap between the guard and tackle, and the C gap between the tackle and tight end, and runs on the perimeter.
The D gap beyond that is the wide outside run.
So in the A gap right down the middle, fifty rushes for four hundred and ninety eight yards round up to two yards to give him five hundred ten yards per rush on inside zone and duo. That's a great CounterPunch to Miami's outside zone running game. With eight han and moster it's fantastic. B gap twenty eight for one to eighteen. It's not eye popping, but it's still over four yards per rush. See gap twenty six for one
to ninety eight. That's up to about eight yards per rush a little bit less than that, and off the perimeter thirty two for one to ninety six, so he can run it everywhere, but gosh, those big home run wins on the inside just can continue to Look at the way the Dolphins have built this offense in twenty twenty four, they're gonna stress even more.
Space than they did in twenty twenty three.
In my opinion, he's just twenty one years old, only one year as a full time starter, and significant workload. In fact, he has under three hundred touches or four hundred touches, I should say as a collegian, so plenty of.
Tread on the tires.
Everybody loves his pass pro and receiving game in terms of scouts and expert analysis out there, which means he offers true three down ability, and if he hits with Devon Acham, you could arguably have one of the game's most dynamic one to two punches down the road. Maybe in twenty twenty five, and you're gonna have a cham for two more years and right for three more years on mid round rookie contracts essentially minimum type of cash
you owe those players. You can get away from having to really pay running backs anything and have two of the best if that works out that way, like sign me up, dude. Dame Brugler wrote this about his ability to cut away from pursuit angles at full speed to create misstackles is more impressive than his track speed. At five foot ten and a half two hundred and ten pounds, really good size for a back, especially at that speed.
He had a compact build and muscular frame six point two yards per rush career on four hundred touches or a little bit less than four hundred touches, seven point four yards per carry last season as the starter, and he had three runs of fifty plus yards, all touchdowns. If there's one thing to clean up, it's the ball security. Five fumbles over the last two years. And Wright told us he wanted to be here. Patrick Paul told us the exact same thing. Chop Robinson was stoked to be here,
Kamara was fired up. Malik Washington said he cannot wait to join the best wide receiver ruin all of football. So I asked Mike McDaniel and Chris Greer, like, it seems obvious the benefit here, but can you, guys, in your perspective, tell us the benefit of guys that want to be here. And I think this answer speaks to what the organization has done to put this sanctuary in place that the tracks, not just draft prospects, but players around the league agents are aware of how loved this
place is. Here's Chris Career and Mike McDaniel on guys wanting to play from Miami.
No.
I think our whole point has been trying to create someplace that's is a winning culture, winning environment, the place the players want to come to to.
Play and win and be developed.
And you know, it all starts to the top from Steve Ross and what he's done here with the facilities and everything he's provided us. You know, the multiple agents and players even in the free agency process or the pros that mentioned being the number one in the NH NFL. You know, NHL don't think of my brother, sorry, NFL PA. He's a great family of rankings about being number one
and everything. So and that's been brought up multiple times just from people that are paying attention to what doing and and I think Mike deserves a lot of credit for the environment that's been created here by the coaching staff, you know, and what they've done and how they've handled players and the development they've done.
So yeah, it's cool, we've had more Like you guys.
Heard John who when he signed here said it was hard Knocks he watched and it was you thought it was cool watching seeing how close the players were and and everything we did. So yeah, it's it's it's it's important, and I think it's when you hear players that want to come play here and do it, it's I think it says a lot for Mike and with the coaching staff as well as mister Ross.
It was.
It was kind of revitalizing too in terms of just today the last couple of days. You know, each and every player that we talked to, the the emotional exuberance and you could feel the passion every single one of these guys voices.
It was. It was pretty cool. So I think that speaks to.
You know, what you guys are going to be presented with when you're in front of those guys in the near future.
The Dolphins come back a round later with pick one fifty eight overall, the twenty third selection in the fifth round, and they go right back to the edge spot with Colorado States Mohammed Kamara and he goes by Mo. And when the Dolphins came into this draft, we knew about two and fifteen, you know, Chubb and Phillips and Shaq Barrett. We knew about Cam Good as really the only depth slash developmental guy on the roster who also has experienced snaps.
I mean, you know, Quinton Bell and Zeke Vanderberg, like, you know, you might think highly of them, but they haven't played in the NFL and we don't know what they are. We needed some replenishment of the youth at that position. Not to mention, coming off a playoff game where you played with three street free agents who were having the damn up opposition in the locker room after the game like that always really pissed me off, and I never wanted to have to do that again. So
that's kind of what I'm thinking here with this. In fact, we had depth and or attrition problems. I guess they kind of go together at edge O line and running back and receiver. And that's all we drafted this year, wasn't it. I mean, come on, and now you've hit well safety as well. We had Patrick Moore. Patrick mc morris was a draft pick as well. But now you've hit all those spots. You've hit edge twice, receiver twice in this class. And let's go ahead and get to
know Mohammed Kamara. He's six one and a half, a little bit less.
Than six one and a half.
He's six zero one to three and two hundred and forty eight pounds, so he's very short for an edge rusher. In fact, he's in the five percent tile of tight for outside outside linebackers four point five seven forty Our dash is cooking a one to five seven ten split. That number falls just short of Chop Robinson's one point five to four ten split, which that number never fails. You have to have a good tensil to play in Miami.
But thirty four and a half inch vert ten foot three broad The film on him a quick film watch, because I didn't have a chance to put his tape on this this draft process, as is kind of the case.
For the Day three guys.
Although I did watch my Leake Washington because I was a big fan of his game. But the first thing that stands out is him just crawling out of his skin, fired up to play. He's like pulling at this his chinch straps, He's like slapping his face mask. He's just on ten all the time, and that matches his first step again. The ten split times shows up on the very first rep. You watch this guy play. The speed
and explosiveness has conversion ability into power. He loves that bull rush move and he can kind of get caught a little bit with the short arms or the lack of a counter move to run that bull rush. But we talked about how chop Robinson can really flatten an angle to the quarterback once you run the arc. This guy does that so well, and his urgency off the line forces early declarations and forces the offensive line to be right with their sets, with their punches, with their
redirect with their slides. It just creates urgency on the offensive line. He played Kamara did a combination of stand up and then also three and four point stances. Is more of a six technique opposed to the out wide nine technique.
He played both weak and strong side.
You see that first quick step, but also the ability to slip off blocks with a spin move, with a swipe or just a lateral step that allows him to attack half the man and not get glued to the block. I do think it gets glued to blocks a little bit too much, but there's reps out there where he gets off those initial blocks, and just like Chock Robinson, he flattens the quarterback so well. Watching these college tight end trying to get a piece of him when they
help a tackle, like it never happens. He's so good at the crossover step in the cross face of a tackle and slice inside of that b gap and reduce that edge and basically take the tackle out of that gap.
I get the feeling that Weaver and Crow and Clark watch this guy and think, man, we can get some production out of him from running games, from having him dent the edge and then loop a defensive tackle back around the outside, maybe a tier tartan all of his explosiveness and get a free run on a shortened angle to the quarterback. For a guy like tier Tart. He had a rep against Boise where he splits a double team. The running back steps up and chips him and it actually gets him.
To the ground. He loses his balance and falls to the ground.
But I've never seen a human being pop up off the ground faster and fast he gets. So he gets up off the ground so quick that he goes in and clobbers the quarterback, looking like one.
Of the infected.
And I am legend going out after will Smith like he has that type of urgency to the way he runs down guys from the backside. He's very adept at getting tackles to overset wide and then stab back inside where he kind of gets that hand and grabs a jersey full and then uses the momentum to pull himself
through and get inside that b gap. Now you're gonna hear about him being undersized, but to me, that's more about his height, and the lack of height sometimes gives you natural leverage advantages in terms of getting under guys's pads, but it also creates an issue with length and not getting off blocks. But I think the two hundred and forty eight pounds and the way he impacts people when he hits them that measures up to me. But again, just six foot one and the arm length is probably
a part of that. That's most applicable as well thirty two to three eighth inch arms, which limits a little bit of what a rusher can do in the push pull aspect.
But man, he has definitely.
Learned how to use what he has and a big part of that is just outworking people. Brugler at the Athletic rights that he relies a little bit too much on effort over technique, but again, that's what we have coaches for, right I think Ryan Crow is very well thought of down here.
He's gonna get most out of these guys.
The last thing he didn't drop in coverage in college at all, and we know that in the past Chubb and Phillips and those guys have done that. Here We'll see what happens with coach Weaver's defense, but he just doesn't have the experience doing that on tape so far.
So there's always work to do.
No player as a complete product, and a fifth round player will certainly have work to do, just as any Ricky does coming into the league. But there's something to be said about the college reps he has because he seems to be perfectly in tuned with his body, like the control of his body to stay on balance and know where his next move is going to be. It really helps him measure out his steps, accelerate, decelerate.
I'm a fan of this player.
Let's go ahead and take a quick break right there, come back on the other side, talk about.
The fit here in Miami.
We'll hear from Mohammad Kamara and some more from McDaniel and Chris Career. That's all next Drive Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you.
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How does Mohammed Kamara fit in the Dolphins defense under new defensive coordinator Anthony and Weaver. Let's go ahead and get into that rate here. I just love when you see the theme or a plan or of how to build this team kind of come together here and again from Brugler's Draft guide. He was described by coaches and teammates as a no nonsense player who inspired his teammates with this intense work ethic. I asked him about that and his introduction press conference to the South Florida media.
Make practice super super hard, so you know the games are easy. You know, be relentless in practice. So when you get to the games, is you just letting yourself free? You know, fail, succeed, mess up, in practice, so when you get to the game, it's easy and you know, you just you know, doing what you have to do. So that's just how I look at it. So I'm always going to be relentless in practice. That's just how I am.
And there was a follow up about him talking about falling to the fifth round, and he wasn't bashful at all about how frankly pissed off he was that he went that late in the draft.
Man.
To be honest, I'm very excited, but I also am very very angry going the round that I did. You know, that's just that's from that's just my personality. I knew, I knew I could have went higher, and I wanted to go higher. But you know, the lovely, the lovely team of Miami pick me up and I'm going to give them. I'm going to give them that burning desire, you know what I mean. I have a chip on
my shoulders, so I just got even greater. You know, So everybody else, all thirty one of the teams look out because the way the way I'm about to play against these guys, you should have picked me before, you know what I mean.
That's just that's just the type of.
Person I am, so you know, you know, respect to those guys, and you know, I'm grateful for Miami for picking me up. But I know what I'm going to bring to the I know what I'm going to bring to the field, and every other team has to have to see me.
I mean, it's just across the board.
Guys who were doubted, like our own head coach, right, you can't coach because you're too small or whatever. Guys that love football, Guys who embraced the grind, Guys who are high character. I know I say this a lot, but I can attest to it being here, this group of players that embraces people in the organization from the podcaster to the videographers or the kitchen staff, the custodial staff.
Kamara just kind of has that same vibe that to me tracks as far as on the field, I think it was pretty clear that Miami needed to replenish the youth and development aspect of.
That edge position group.
Again, you know, Quentin Bell and Zeke Vanderberg the only guys in the roster that are not Chubb and Phillips, who are twenty eight and twenty five years old by the time the season kicks off, but beyond that, it was Shaq Barrett thirty one when the season kicks off. Then Cam go to his twenty six, and you know, they just needed more youth in that position. So they get Kamara after getting Chop Robinson, and all of a sudden, this room was full.
It's deep.
And speaking of Chop, Kamara did tell us that he worked together with Chop Robinson the entire draft process, so that's cool. They already have that pre existing relationship heading into their rookie seasons here in South Florida. And Chris Greer also alluded to the fact that Kamara was a little bit salty on his Zoom call. He just heard they were talking about going in the fifth round and said that was part of the makeup they loved about him.
Let's go ahead and hear from the Dolphins brass on this fifth round on Edge Traffic.
We were kind of surprised he was there.
It's just how physical and how fast, and I mean, the guy has a tremendous motor and I think someone showed us a quote he's.
A big moon tomorrow guy. I can tell.
Yeah, that was the set up.
I told you so sweet right there.
But it was just, you know, when you watch him play, you know he just plays hard and he's kind of a relentless his motor and just loves football. And someone showed Mike and I some quote he was talking about after with you guys, and you feel that passion, and I'm just like, this guy loves football and he's very prideful and he feels he's better than some people that were selected in front of him, and he made it known and he's very excited to be here that he took the chance on.
Some numbers for you on Mo Kamara thirty and a half career sacks is the second most in Colorado state history. Has forty five and a half tackles for loss, were third most is school history. He also forced five fumbles and had one hundred and eighty total tackles. He was All American last year and Mountain West Defensive Player of
the Year. He played the following snap totals last three years twenty twenty one, three seventy three, twenty twenty two, five ninety five, and then he played six hundred and twelve snaps last season. That includes fourteen sacks on three hundred and forty two pass rush snaps last season, he earned a ninety nine grade from Pro Football Focus on pass rush versus true pass set grades, non play action and also in critical moments. Was the number one graded
pass prusher in fourth and third downs as well. Also scored a ninety five grade and pass rush win rate. He was tied for fourth in the country in sacks. He was tied for tenth in QB hits with twelve. He was ninth in hurries with thirty eight. He had twenty one pass rush wins list of his other giving him sixty four total pressures on three hundred and forty two pass rush reps. That's a pressure rate of eighteen point seven percent. Pretty damn impressive to come away with
those guys. We also got a few more players on this Saturday, final day of the twenty twenty four NFLD Draft. Maleik Washington, the receiver from Virginia. I just I can't say enough good things about him. I think he's the best pick of the entire draft of the Dolphins. I think he's gonna come in and have an impact right away.
More on that on the next podcast here. Patrick McMorris from California, the safety need to watch some more tape on him, which I will do this weekend before we get to the Monday podcast.
And then seventh round pick was TODJ.
Washington, the receiver out of Southern cal So again two more receivers and the team. There are some West Coast guys as well, so we'll have all that for you guys on Monday.
Let's go ahead and finish up with this though from Chris Greer and Mike McDaniel.
They were asked about the idea of being this competitive team that can win games and coming off of two playoff seasons in a row. But how do you measure up this analysis on the outside saying that both Chop Robinson and Patrick Paul are not yet ready to play. How do you balance in that and how's that mindset play out. I love these answers from both Greer and McDaniel.
Well, we don't really worry about what other scouts and other people say. It's about dealing for the Miami Dolphins and how we feel where the players at the stage, and what he needs to do to develop as a player and what he can contribute and do. And we're always talking about how we think the player fits in and what he can contribute this year possibly. You know, there's no guarantees or absolute but we feel strongly in the players and believe in them. And this isn't you know,
We're still trying to win this year. This is not about worrying about two three years down the line. This is We're all about having the best team possible to win games this season.
Yeah, and just because the player has an upside, you know that we had a very deliberate approach to the entire draft on getting guys on the team that would compete and make us better right now. And you know, some guys are determined by other people that they have a higher ceiling or whatever. We just get the guys in the building and let them prove that themselves.
Man, what a fun weekend. I have more to go back and watch on these. Uh, Patrick McMorris and Todge Washington's all go ahead and do that for you guys before the next podcast, but fire up to bring that to you guys, think Monday morning is my aim. On the release of that one. We'll also go ahead and I think Wednesday have a holistic look at the draft and roster, kind of a roster reset series here, so
plenty to come your way from this draft. We'll also have the UDFA podcast with Emory Hunt that we do every single year when those signings happen. Probably going to do a mail bag here in the near future as well, So just want to do some more deep dives akin to the thread I put on Twitter. Also looking at the offensive line developmental timelines, like things like that we're going to do on the podcast.
It's a fun time of year.
And by the way, rookie manikamp and OTAs player pressers like, it's all coming up here and football is going to be on the menu for the next couple of weeks, and we're gonna have you covered as always right here on the Draft Time Podcast.
In the meantime, that is going to be my time you all.
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