Drive Time: Travis Wingfield’s 2023 Draft Preview

Oh yeah, what is up? Dolphins? And welcome to the Drive Time podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, if it sounds like I'm a little bit gassed up right now, that's because I am. It's one of my

favorite episodes of the year. To my guys episode, Normally it's twenty names, but this year cutting down to the sweet sixteen because there is no first round draft pick and with us being one week away from our first draft pick, most likely could be a trade up. But if not, it'll be one week from today breaking down all things Miami Dolphins draft. I'm gonna give you sixteen names I'd like at pick fifty one and eighty four.

All of that and a heck of a lot more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time podcast. May Gaffish Caroline kicks us off as we jump right in to the sweet sixteen my guys, and expanding this out to the third round this year because of our first two picks occurring on Day two with pick fifty one and pick eighty four. I've always done twenty names for the first couple of rounds,

but will go sixteen for rounds two and three. I know it sounds confusing, but we also use the Dane Brugler big Board from the Athletic the Beast, which in my opinion is the best draft guide out there, so go check that out if you have not done so. But using his big board and kind of ranking the players based upon where he has them for the idea

of who could be there. But I first want to mention I have two distinct omissions who fit the criteria of being within fifteen picks in terms of Dane's big Board of our pick, and that's two guys that are within those criteria that I think personally, and this is me putting my own flavor on it because it's my show. I have the microphone, and that's what I'm gonna do.

Two guys I think are long gone by pick fifty one, who are both within fifteen spots of the fifty first pick are Mazzi Smith from Michigan, the defensive lineman, and the offensive lineman we'll call him a guard from TCU, Steve Avila. I think both those players are first round pick locks, absolute locks to go in the first day and have no chance to make it to fifty one or even to a potential trade up range for the

Miami Dolphins. So with that, let's go ahead and jump into my list this year, and it starts on the offensive line with Matthew Bergeron from Syracuse. The more I watch these guys coming down the home stretch of draft prep,

the more Bergeron stands out to me. It starts with his feet, the same thing that made me think that Larry M. Tunsel had a future as a perennial All Pro left tackle when the Miami Dolphins landed him thirteen overall back in twenty sixteen, and a guy that could garner the return value of a quarterback in a trade that basically set Miami up for the roster we have today.

In his past sets, you often see him squeeze left guard and shorten that runway because he knows he has the foot quickness to get back outside I should say the right guard. He plays the right tackle position mostly. Then his opposition sees that edge flash open, tries to beat him around that arc, and he has the ability to get back out wide and run him right past the quarterback to the least effective position on a football field behind the quarterback. And he pairs that quickness with

the best complimentary trait to foot quickness, grip strength. You see a lot of college offensive linemen operate solely with two handed punches, and that really restricts your limit or

restricts your and limiture mobility. But not him. He's very comfortable with that outside hand bracing the initial impact, latching on, and then working to get his feet back square and bring that inside hand back in for initial placement there because it keeps you more on balance, it keeps you your width and your base, It just keeps everything more

in sync. And I think that that trait really pairs well with how Tua plays, especially off that blind side for him in terms of getting the football out quick, playing in rhythm, Matthew Bergeron's traits alone allow him to buy the quarterback extra time in the pocket. It makes sense to me that he is so good that with his feet because he was a hockey player. Being from Canada, his first language was French as well. But how about this, He was the first Syracuse true freshman to start at

offensive tackle since two thousand and two. He did play both sides, thirty one starts at left tackle, eight at right tackle. I liked his right tackle tape a lot. I think where you see the fit is the way that he comes off the football. We've talked about it in covering McDaniel pressers about how the offensive line play is different than it is most other places around the league. Super smooth mover with the ability to effectively transition his

weight and stay on balance. Three hundred and eighteen pounds is right in the threshold for most tackles. Some folks think he could kick and tide to guard, which I think maybe depresses his value a little bit and makes some potential option at fifty one as a team that wants him as a tackle. Players like this tend to give a little in the running game, and that's why I like him so much for Miami, because that's not

birds run at all. He has the temperament of a road grading guard out in space, and he finishes his

block blocks like nobody I've seen in this class. He's six foot five, three hundred and eighteen pounds, thirty three and three quarter inch arms plenty good there, thirty and a half inch vert eighty two inch wingspan, an eight to two rass relative athletic scorecard at his top fifty all time among tackles more than twenty five hundred career snaps, thirteen hundred and seventy five of those in pass pro with just fifty five pressures allowed. I'd say career pass

block efficiency of ninety seven point four. Remove that true freshman campaign and it's thirty eight pressures on twelve hundred pass blocking snaps. A pbe better than ninety eight. So yeah, he's a top my list. I love this guy's game, and I actually recently bumped him over the guy I've been talking about all draft process by number two here,

tight end Darnell Washington. For my short list, these are my top two guys out of Georgia seven hundred and seventy four career receiving yards, three touchdowns, but seventeen point two per catch in his career. I think that number reflects the upside as the Georgia offense was an embarrassment of riches both at tight end and running back, and Darnell did so much of his work in the uncharted area. As far as stats go, you guessed it in the

blocking game. This guy is an extra offensive lineman when you put him in the game. Luckily, the Pro Football Focused draft guide gives us those details. He had half as many targets as likely first round pick in twenty twenty four. Brock Bowers had it Georgia last year, but he embraced that role selflessly. Sixty percent in line workload. He broke fourteen tackles on forty five receptions, averaging seven

point five yards after the catch per reception. That was twelfth among all tight ends in college football last year. He was sixteenth in deep receptions twenty or more air yards and think about that, sixteenth in total catches on deep shots, but he only had a fraction of attempts of the rest of the class like a Sam laporta fourteenth and depth of target that just pairs insanely well with this a top ten run block gry at tight end, no pressures allowed on seventy two pass blocking snaps in

his career. Paired that with a fifty percent contested catch rate. That's about where the best contested catch guys in the NFL come down each year, fifty to fifty. Hey, that's why they call it fifty fifty balls, right, But the best ones only get that. And they even Taka Channing tendall about this guy, and he said in the red zone he's impossible to cover because he's a rebounds the

football off your helmet. He would know athletic marvel eighty three and three quarter inch wing span, eleven inch, hands six seven, two hundred and seventy two pounds. He's a sixth offensive lineman who can beat you to the corner, beat a linebacker or a safety to the flag in a foot race, you know, to catch a He's a long strider, I mean, how could he not be at that size? But don't mistake that for a lack of foot quickness. Don't listen to a beat report talking about

how he reminds him of Mike KASICKI. That is outlandish, ridiculous. He builds up to speed, but he has plenty of quickness to win with separation and a much larger frame. His basketball background shows up. Four point h eight short shuttle was third best among all participants in Indie, not tight ends, all participants. Flat out dominant blocker, dominant erases the edge, Widen the sea gap, that gap between your

tackle and tight end where we run. Lots of our target points to the running backs at that sea gap. He can clear that out and attach the second level move linebackers anchors against the nation's top pass rushers. I love his game. Brugler calls Washington the leanest two hundred and seventy pound athlete he's ever seen on a football field, a one of one talent with fascinating pro potential. Excited Yet, let's keep it rolling here with number three on my list,

running back Jamior Gibbs from Alabama. His ability to get to any blade of grass from any position with peer speed and urgency is so intriguing for what this offense could look like with a player like Gibbs in it. I think he's a certified immediate playmaker wherever he winds up, especially in the right system that allows him to take a longer track to the line outside zone right, anticipate the lanes developing, and then hit it with acceleration with

excellent backside vision. The way he gets to that bend back lane is rare. He has elite vision to find those backside lanes when it's been over pursued with his physical skills, the speed and the agility to find those to really punish them for false stepping or overreacting to front side action. And that's where most the Dolphins big runs come from. Man, he's a home run hitter. He's

tremendous as a receiver. And if it weren't for the running back position, seeing decline in draft position the last several years, I'd put him in the long gone category. But because running backs fall every year, he might be there. Five foot nine, two hundred pounds, that's great. Four three six forty just twenty one years old. The number of times I've seen him to Alvin Kamara, it tracks too. Pro football focus has his compet raheem Moster love that

his resume is insane. Freshman All American at Georgia Tech housed a ninety eight yard kick return two years ago, transferred to Alabama and led the team in both rushing and receptions. Alabama sudden stepper varies his tempos and reads blocks so so well. The way he processes and presses lanes and condenses the defense to really kind of suck them in and then hit him on the backside with speed puts him at such a disadvantage and then you can't catch up with the foot speed there from him either.

He forced one hundred and seven miss tackles on three hundred and eighty three attempts as a collegiate. That's crazy good for a three to five to three average after initial contact. He also led all backs in this class with two point four to seven yards per route ran as a receiver. Those are my top three guys that I'm racing to the podium if any of them are available. I love those guys' games. I think they're all great

fits here. I like this guy's game two, and he probably goes before those three guys because of the position he plays well. I guess Burgeran's the same spot, but offensive tackle Dewan Jones from Ohio State. You start with his build. It's six foot eight, three hundred and seventy four pounds. There's a video of him dunking a basketball and the caption of the tweet I saw says it's or the heaviest NBA player to dunk a ball in a game was the three hundred and seventy five pound

Oliver Miller. The length matches thirty six and five eight inch arms that he uses to snatch and trap rushers puts him on the ground. Smart player who knows where he has to get. He knows his limitations in terms of the movement skills which come with being three hundred and seventy five pounds. He knows how his body maneuvers. There's just not a lot to nitpick with him as

a prospect. He shows up on game day and it's a problem for the defense because he's just so impossibly hard to get around, both as a pass blocker and in the run game. His margin for air on the strike points is so big because of his mass. He and Darnell Wright, who is long gone as well for me, by the way, might just be the best right tackles in this draft. They could also be the best offensive tackles. In the draft period, he moved surprisingly well for that size.

He's gonna He's not gonna play as a five to four forty, or I should say a sub five forty, but he can get to the second level from Dane Brugler. Ohio State coaches lauded how much he improved each year there, which is a great sign for any prospect. Improvement every single season. Then the production. How about five quarterback pressures last year, not sacks, not hits, five pressures. He did not allow c. J. Stroud to get hit once, not once.

Nine hundred and fifty one career pass blocking snaps with just eighteen pressures. That's a ninety eight point eight pass block efficiency, the best in college football over that time. I am very very close to putting him in the out of range category. Up next a player that I believe will be there. Tight end Sam Laporta from Iowa All State basketball player LETTERD to baseball as a shortstop. He ran track. I love multi sport players and it

shows in the way he moves. He's smooth. One of the few guys with the higher YPPR yards per route ran than Washington one point eight to nine career to one seven seven. He averages five point six yards after the catchup on average, forced thirty six miss tackles on one hundred and fifty three catches. He is exceptional with

the football in his hands. I think you can really see that translate in his game where Iowa would use him both not just the f y combo the move and inline combination, but a quasi a wide receiver like slot and throw him screens on the outside in flats

from flex alignments. He's the kind of player that you can line up in one snap and eleven personnel and he's your inline tight end, and the next he's a flexed out wide receiver and all of a sudden you're in ten personnel and you did not have to substitute, and the defense is now mismatched. He doesn't have the blocking reps that Washington does, but when Iowa asked him to,

he was pretty adequate in that department. You don't play tight end in Iowa and not have some capability of blocking sub four six forty thirty five inch vert ten to three broad. He is so explosive, probably the best in the class in that regard. Dalton king Kate has an argument as the best separator at the top of the route at the position, he said at the combine.

The reason he did not declare last year was it was important for him to be a captain at Iowa, and per Brugler, his coaches to say his production was a direct reflection of the work he puts in. So good company there. My last guy on my short list here is Keanu Benton. This is a player from Wisconsin, defensive lineman. Where the Dolphins are sort of in that

luxury spot that a few teams are. We feel pretty damn good about our roster if we had to play a game tomorrow and teams like that are afforded the luxury of drafting to soft potential future needs. And Benton wouldn't just satisfy what does the d line look like in twenty four criteria. He'd give you an immedia impact rotational piece this year to work in with Christian and Zach. He's flexible in the way of those two guys. I

know that he can play as a nose tackle. He can play the two, the two, I, the three, all the way up to the five technique, and that's what he did with the Badgers at Wisconsin. He's fantastic at deconstructing blocks. The quickness pops off the tape, the powerful hands pop off the tape at three hundred and fifteen pounds. It reminds me of Christian Wilkins a little bit, and the way he moves that big frame around slippery ability

to shake blocks. So good at creating advantageous angles and then winning with whatever is required power, speed, restrike, the hands. Wrestling background very evident from him. Four year starter at Wisconsin, over nine hundred snaps played the last two years. That includes four hundred and eighty three pass rush reps with forty nine pressures. It includes four hundred and seventeen rundown

snaps with forty three stops. Excellent player who I think can provide an immediate impact to whichever team selects him. This is my long list for pick fifty one. Moving on to the offensive line, John Michael Schmidz from Minnesota. Not sure how many guys improve their stock the way that Michael Schmidz did, and that began with a dominant senior Bowl week. I mentioned Benton's wrestling background, but you heard from Kyle Krabs on the podcast a while back.

You hear it again next week. I'm sure his ability to transition to guard should be a seamless one. But the thing that stands out above all is the intelligence. You never see him fall, stepping or taking poor angles busting a protection assignment. Just a super sound player also knows how to work. PJ. Fleck, the Minnesota head coach, was quoted it always helps when your best players your hardest worker, which we use that phrase around here too

with Tyreek. The Dolphins benefit of having an offensive line full of guys that play multiple spots is that they can expand their desired positions up front. So like Schmid is a center, but if you took him, you've got Connor Williams who can play anywhere inside. We've seen Rob Hunt play both right guard and right tackle, Austin Jackson both tackle spots and left guard. Same story with Leam Miikenberg.

If you draft John Michael Schmidtz, maybe he's the best left guard on the team and you can move it that way. Maybe he's the best center and you move Connor Williams. It gives you options when you have guys that are that flexible. Twenty one pressures allowed just two sacks in nine hundred and ninety one career pass blocking snaps on my long list. Defensive back Keelee Ringo from Georgia.

I find myself sometimes with beliefs, but I also think that just means from a scouting perspective, you're open to not just the traits you prefer, but all play styles and all body types, etc. Etc. I say this because Keilee Ringo might be the best athlete this class has to offer, but there are flashes on the tape that make you think that he could wind up with the

most all pros of anybody in this entire class. But you also see a little bit of risk reward there, which is why the draft experts are pretty split on where he might go and why he's even part of this exercise and not a surefire top ten pick. He can fly, he hits, He plays the football. He was a perimeter cornerback in college, but I think that he could play anywhere on the secondary, including off the balls

of safety. He ran a twenty one one eight two hundred meter yard dash in high school that is below the threshold of Olympic qualifying, which we'll talk about here with Devon ah Chan here in a second. He was the number one cornerback recruit out of high school, number one overall recruit out of Arizona. That ascent was the story in college man red shirted in twenty twenty with a shoulder injury, played two years and onto the next. Over those two years, nineteen pass defense, four picks at

a forced fummable, three tackles for loss. The guy fills up the stat sheet. The more I think about Ringo, the closer I get to adding him to my list of for sure going before pick fifty one, ten to two broad thirty three and a half introvert at that size, have mercy. He's rocked up, fires out of a cannon from a standing still position, exceptional trigger out of the back pedal, hands like a wide receiver. I think he's

gonna be an ace special teamer from day one. Another year of good college tape, I think you might be talking about a potential top ten pick here. Perhaps best of all, he made his growth while playing in one of the more complex man zone match schemes in all of college football. Sixty six point one career passer rating allowed, sixty three last year, sixty eight two years ago nineteen run stops just eight hundred and seventy one receiving yards

on one thousand, sixty one coverage NEPs. He's awesome. That's my short and long list there at pick fifty one. I gave you seven names I believe, right, So there you go. Let's go ahead and take our first break right there and come back on the other side and get to the rest of the list. Travis Wingfield, your host Draft Time podcast, brought to you by Auto Nation. We've read a lot off seven names so far. Do

I even have sixteen here? I don't know if for sure, if it's that many, if it's more, if it's less, I don't know. We'll figure it out. However, many names I'm giving you today, that's how many we're going to talk about on the podcast. We've done one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. I was right. Eight I did eight. That's right, okay, eight and eight makes sense. Travis nowsmath For pick eighty four. My first player is running back Ti J. Spears from Tulane.

One of my absolute favorites in this class. He might be gone before this pick. Not only does he hit home runs as a runner, not only does he run routes like a wide receiver. He will execute a lead block in the goal line. He'll go put a linebacker on their butt and then walk back to the huddle like, yeah, that's a Saturday in New Orleans. Ben's what I do. Competitive fire runs. Angry plays exceptionally fast. If you watch

the Cotton Bowl, you know about tij Spears. He ran rough shot over the USC Trojans to cap off a fifteen hundred and eighty one yard nineteen touchdown rushing season. Add in twenty two grabs for two fifty six and three scores. Receiver. He's five foot nine, two hundred pounds, a lot like Jamiir Gibbs. He jumped thirty nine inches in the vertical ten foot five on the broad. Unreal athlete. I think his four to five to two forty time is very misleading. He plays a lot faster than that.

He has exceptional lateral agility. He's an explosive cutter, accelerates quickly when changing directions and decelerating. Led the nation last year with four point five to five yards after initial contact thanks to sixty three miss tackles force you don't bring him down first contact. He had twenty one runs of fifteen plus yards his career yards after contact is this four five, five, four, five zero four eight one four two seven. He averages better than a good carry

after initial contact. In his entire career, he ran for seventy first downs. Last year, he had just two drops on sixty two targets. I love Ty J. Spears tight end Luke Schoenmaker from Michigan number two on my eighty four short list. State champ winning high school quarterback late bloomer in term production, but he enjoyed a career year in twenty twenty two with thirty five grabs, four to eighteen and three touchdowns. His workout is where he really

stood out. Seventy eight one eighth inch wingspan almost tterodactal territory eighty inches about where we get to that spot. One five to nine ten split, super explosive off the football, ten foot seven broad and thirty five and a half inch vertical jump. Those numbers also tell you how explosive he is in the lower half. He can move man six foot five, two fifty two. He was a run first quarterback in high school as a junior, and then he moved to a pass catching role his senior season.

Also played baseball and cornerback, which again speaks to his movement skills and you can see it in watching him clean releases, excellent body control. This is what I love most about the multi sport athletes. They just move differently. He did pile up run after the catch, but his grip, strength and effectiveness as a blocker absolutely stands out the offense.

He comes from his intriguing it's a classic y in that power spread offense of the Michigan Wolverines, which gives him snaps in line as a in the slot in the backfield. Everything versatility plays big time in today's NFL, and you see that show up in the way he was utilized one hundred and fifty one gap scheme block reps, one hundred and one out of zone, and a variety of those pre snap alignments. Sixty two career pass blocking snaps,

just one pressure allowed. He only forced two miss tackles on fifty four career grabs, so not going to run through tacklers that much, but he can make plays with the football in his hands. Next number three on the short list here running back de von A Chain from Texas A and m Lightning in a Bottle. People thought he might break the forty yard dash record in Indy. He did clock a four to three to two, which was the third fastest time in this year's class. He's

got springboards in his shoes. He and Gibbs make my list for the same reason. Urgency to press the line and make the cut with anticipation of how the blocks unfold and unleash that track speed into the second level of the defense. Like Gibbs, a chain is a home run hitting return man thirty point seven average kickoff returns

and two for touchdowns. The last two seasons, I thought he played a lot bigger than his size in pastro, which means you have no qualms about keeping him in on third down where he can unleash his best trait his pass receiving. He ran a ten to oh four one hundred meters at A and M. Twenty twenty four was the Olympic trial qualifiers for the last time out and he ran a twenty point twenty. It's Olympic speed, like we talked about there with Kiley Ringo. He's played

on special teams. He has a not over my dead body temperament that I love. Jimbo Fisher said this about him, He's a tremendous human being, player, leader, competitor, and have nothing but heart and toughness about him and everything he does. He averaged one hundred and sixty one all purpose yards per game last year. That was fourth in the SEC. It just matters more. Seventy four misstackles forced on three hundred and sixty nine career attempts. That's good for a

three nine to three average yards after contact. Number four for pick eighty four linebacker Dayon Henley from Washington State. If it seems like I like speed, it's because I do. Henley changed the way the WSU defense could play. And I'm not making this comparison because it sounds like a total homer call for the Gokugs, but it was a into how the Niners could expand their drops with Fred

Warner because of his length and athletic ability. Henley has range, moving in all three directions and finishes with a punishing finish safety convert blistering four or five to four speed. He was recruited originally as a quarterback, but signed with Nevada as an athlete before playing wide receiver corner and moving to safety and eventually landing at linebacker and transferring out to Wazu. The combined metrics show you the explosiveness one five to eight to ten split thirty seven and

a half inch vert ten point five broad. He's built. He plays tight off blocks. He you can condense intight to the formation and scrape off those things. So he's smart. He knows how to defeat blocks. Despite his kind of slight frame, has a never ending motor. I don't watch my kugs with a scouting eye. I'm just watching it to watch football. But this dude jumped off the screen every single Saturday. He's going to be a core special team or day one on top of having the salt

to play sub and base packages. On defense, he led both WSU and special our defense and special team last year and tackles forty run stops just five point two percent misstackle rate last year and eight team pressures on sixty seven career pass rushing snaps or I should say last season. Really really good player. Defensive tackle siaka Ika from Baylor the truest nose in this entire class. His presence clogs two lanes just on his side alone, six

foot three, three hundred and forty pounds. I think if you draft this guy, you can play in thirty percent of your snaps right behind Rayqwan Davis and give him his a breather. And when you see a man that size, you don't think he can move, but he does, man quickness, ability to work latterly with heavy, heavy hands. He has some juice as a pass rusher too, but stopping the

run is is true calling. He played the zero, the one, two, even some three technique, but I think he's more of a PLoP him on the nose playing those odd fronts for the Miami Dolphins. If you were to get drafted here and that might not be a third round pick, maybe he's a trade back scenario, but he's it would be a great fit for the Miami Dolphins in the middle of that defense. Tight End Brenton Strange is next

from Penn State. How about a one to thirty five passer rating when marketed, good for six among Power five tight ends. He really turned it on as a pass catcher this year was twentieth and miss tackles fourth, seven total, misstackles forced seven total, also made five contested catches. How About a pretty good split of snap counts from zone and gap schemes one fifty to one forty three. He played more of a souped up wide receiver role, but man, when they jammed him in line, you could see the

want to As a blocker. It's a great baseline to work with a tight end. A vert and broad thirty six and ten to four both registered better than eighty five percent tile among tight ends. He uses that big body in athletics athleticism to be a threat down the field, builds up to speed to make big plays. He caught six of twelve contested balls in his career, scored eleven touchdowns on seventy grabs for seven to seventy five. It's

pretty good. Fourteen career miss tackles forced, had a sixty seven yard touchdown catch this year that he ran away from the entire defense. Explosive, more receiver than blocker, but that muscular build. He's a first off the bus type of guy. In addition to his temperament and want to makes him an entry player at this range of the draft, maybe like a ECO as well, a trade back type

of option. Next wide receiver Tank Dell from Houston. He won me over at the Senior Bowl with a deep bag in terms of his releases, his stems and moves at the top of the route. You're gonna hear the concern about his size five foot eight, one sixty five, but when he gets drafted, just like Devonte Smith, I can promise you that weight has no meaning when guys cannot get hands on you. He's speedy, he's crafty, he's

sure handed. Explosive play weighting to happen. Love his game, especially when you consider that he ran every position in Dana Holgerson's passing attack, which is multifaceted variation of the air raid. Fun fact about him he played at Independence Community College, was the first school featured on the Last Chance You program. I don't think his four to four to nine speed is indicative of his play speed. The one to five ten split sure is, though he accelerates

with the catch on deep tracking. Think about that waddle home run ball from Tua against the Lions, like he can go get it two point five to four yards per route. Ran caught more than half his contested ball at that size seven for thirteen five yards average. Yak nineteen mistackles forced each of the last two years, thirty four touchdown grabs, with seventeen of those coming last year

twenty nine to the last two years combined. He caught five deep touchdowns this year, twelve of twenty eight targets on those twenty or more air yard throws for three hundred and sixty six yards and five touchdowns on deep shots. He's a good deep ball receiver. Could open up things for Tyreek and Jalen in this offense if he was drafted last Here on my short my long list, I should say offensive lineman Janya Morris from Oklahoma another one

of these just larger than life. Builds six foot five, three hundred and seventeen pounds at his pro day, but how about thirty five and five and a half inch arms, ten and a quarter inch hands, and an eighty five inch wingspan. Superb athlete gets out in space like nobody's business, quick out of his stance and into his set. He mirrors well, has a real mean streak to his game. Plenty of reps where he latches on and then finishes the rep by throwing his man to the ground. This

has an impact over the course of a game. Very rangey and asked to pull, Dane Brugler writes that if he refinds all of his technique and just get to more reps. His upside could be a high quality starter who serves as a good swing tackle while he gains experience. That to me sounds like a perfect mid draft type of athletic or type of offensive lineman. Selection just eleven pressures allowed the last two seasons on three hundred and seventy nine pass blocking snaps he did miss some time

two years ago. It's a pass block efficiency of ninety seven point nine. So there you go. That's my short and long list, my sweet sixteen for picks fifty one to eighty four. Let's go ahead and take our last break right there and come back on the other side and talk about some Day three prospects and kind of do a little mock game here. That's next Drive Time podcast, your host Travis Winingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. So we have two picks, one in the sixth round,

one the seventh round. I don't know if any of these guys are going to be there, but some additional names. Four running backs. Tenk Bigsby from Auburn's a big, physical bruiser. Sean Tucker's an explosive play awaiting to happen to Syracuse. Mohammed Ibraheim had a ton of production at Minnesota, and Duce Vaughan was the top receiving running back in college football from Kansas State. I like Miami's tight end Will Mallory. I like the BYU wide receiver Puka Nakua, who had

a great senior Bowl. Three offensive linemen who are intriguing, Anton Harrison from Oklahoma, Andrew Vorhees from USC and Tyler Stein from Alabama. Really curious about Steen. On the defensive line, KeAndre Coburn from Texas as well as his teammate Moro Ojomo, and then linebacker Noah Sewell from Oregon, cornerbacks Trey Tomlinson from TCU and Darius Rush from South Carolina. Just to round out my list and give myself more chances to have hits on the Miami Dolphins draft, I think this

is what I'm kind of landing on right here. At fifty one, it's Washington, bergeron Gibbs or maybe even get out at that point, and then the third round ty J. Spears, devon a chain, Luke Schoenmaker and Janya Morris, and then get out if you can't get those guys. Truth is, I wish I had one more pick. But I also think we'll get we'll only get one of my guys. We'll get to the fifty first pick. If they do, that's great, if not tough, but gosh, I really want

three of these players. Maybe you slide back a little bit and go Laporta, Spears and Morris. I don't know. There are so many options. We'll discuss more of those of my guests here coming up. But I think you just look at this in general and say, Miami has a chance to go after their offensive line needs, or their tight end needs, or their running back needs, or they can select a player that just benefits a strength of the roster, which is always a good way to

improve your football team as well. So there you go. Maybe we'll get all four picks right in these lists. Maybe we'll get zero. Who the hell knows. Just wanted to share with you all what I've been working on for this class and the tape I've been watching because I do it too. Even though we have the guests on here, which we'll have next week Kyle Crabs and Jordan Reid on the Draft Time podcast, and then that's it. That's the draft after that. In the meantime, that's going

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