Miami Dolphins 2021 Draft Preview Extravaganza Part 2 with Kyle Crabbs, Days 2-3 and a 7-round Mock

the Miami Dolphins. We're gonna talk about prototypes and much much more on this edition of Draft Time. First though, Kyle, welcome back in man. Thanks. Is that all we're covering today is just the whole darned thing? Huh? This is This is gonna be fun, man. This yesterday was fun. Today is gonna be even more fun. One of my favorite things the middle rounds of the money rounds. Chris

Crews had some good successes there. This is good class for the always really get excited about an hour or two before the draft starts on Friday, because you get all that flurry of possible trade rumors, teams coming up to get their guy they think fell out of the first round that should have gone in the first round. Two rounds of drafting. It just doesn't get any better

than this. We're gonna preview all of that, but first I would be remissed as my little girl just turned eleven months old at last week, will be a year here in May. It's it's gone by crazy fast. Kyle became a new father, a girl dad as well, shortly after I did. Kyle, how's it going for you? My little girl's tearing the house apart because she's running around right now. She learned how to walk quickly and then turned it into a run very quickly. How's how's dad

life coming along for you? It's going great. It's it's a new something new every single day. And uh, she is just NonStop. And that's one of the things where I'm incredibly blessed with what I do to to work remotely and and be here for her every day. And it's just very quickly become my best friend, my little film buddy, and uh, the world's second and biggest Dolphins

fan behind you. How's your crying increased way more? I noticed, I'm so much more emotional when it comes to her, Like my wife got me, this Father's Day book that's like me. It's like Caroline and Me is like the name of the book, and it's it's like a stock book where they kind of change out the names. That's all like you know, generic ad lib type of or mad libs type of book. But every time I walk into her room, I look at that book and I'd like, well, up,

you have any of that going on. I would be lying if I said there haven't been a couple like animal rescue videos on Facebook or I'll tell you one. It's It was my daughter's baptism on Sunday, and my wife repurposed her wedding dress to create my daughter's dress for her baptism. And when I first saw the picture at the end of last week of my little girl wearing this tailored dress of my wife's wedding dress, that was one that definitely got me. Okay, let's regroup here,

let's get it back together. Let's yeah, we're gonna have to just go off of that topic because I can't handle it. I literally cannot handle this. Let's let's get back into the draft and talk about some more manly stuff. You know, we're man here, We beef Jerky we we we go on riverboat gambling trips. But I want to talk about the running back position to start this off

because we're here at pick thirty six. If you didn't catch the Tuesday, I think episode of Draft Time here we talked about the first round, the off season so

far to date. Plenty of good content in that podcast, and again, if you guys are not familiar, Kyle Crabs and Locked on Dolphins Podcast Daily does a great job with that over there, as well as writing a bunch of stories every single day for Dolphins Wire and of course the Draft Network where those guys are just kicking as this time of year, every single year and year round.

But pick number thirty six, we talked about this on the pick portion of the previous podcast, how the running back position has changed as far as the way it's perceived across the NFL where it gets drafted, and we talked about this possible run at the beginning of round two with Jacksonville on the Jets. To me, that pick with the Jets has Travis E. T N written all over it. At pick thirty six, are we gonna get

a crack at one of these top running backs? And if we do not is there anybody that makes sense at that spot at the running back position. So if none of the perceived top three, and that's generally the consensus as those the top three guys, if none of those guys make it, you probably need to regroup. You need to look at fifty and eighty one or decide, you know, do we need to manufacture some additional picks to find a better value. And the Dolphins did you know?

This is one of my big issues with with the draft. Is there so much of a con perception of bad signings or bad trades or bad draft picks. But like the law of averages says, you're not gonna bad a thousand,

it's impossible. So I thought the Dolphins last year they caught a lot of flak about how the running back run kind of caught them there in the second round when they had some of the chances at thirty or at thirty nine, But they still managed to go out and get a productive player during his time in San Francisco in matp Rita, who since moved on after the

one year deal. And when you make the amount of volume of transactions that every NFL team makes on an annual basis, you're not going to bat a thousand, and I think that's one thing that I really appreciate that the Dolphins have done, is they've embraced the volume perspective of drafting, so that way you have more flexibility to

kind of pivot and adjust. UM. So, you know, I don't think they should have any regrets for handling the room the way that they did, even if they didn't come out and get one of the top five rookie running backs from last year's class. So if it plays out that way and none of the top three perceived backs are there at thirty six, it's not time to pull the or push the panic button, or pull the rip cord or anything like like. There's gonna be opportunities,

and Chris Grew will find them. He's shown through the first two years of unquestioned control of this team that he's going to have the ability to do that. But as far as will we see one of them, I feel better about it now that I did a couple

of weeks ago. UM, as far as there were teams in the back half of the first round, a playoff contenders, super Bowl contenders, UM that I had had some conversations with that indicated that running back would be on their shortlist, and it's like, well, shoot, if we get one of these teams in the late twenties or in the thirties that drafts one of the running backs, then the numbers

games starts to get a little scary for Miami. But the team that I had had that conversation about has made some transactions and added a running back to the roster and it seems as though they're gonna go a different directions, So that at least helps me feel a little bit more comfortable or confident. The wild card is Jacksonville.

If they draft Trevor Lawrence and they want to get Travis c e t N. I know they got James Robinson and he was productive as a runner as an undrafted free agent, but good players shouldn't prevent you from drafting great players. And if Jacksonville thinks Travisy t is a great running back prospect and they want to have that backfield intact from Clemson, that may be curveball that could change things. As far as one of these three

gets to Miami thirty six. Yeah, that's a good way to look at I didn't really consider that as an option because of James Robinson's breakout rookie season last year as a U d F. A a lot of fun to watch him, but hey, a two headed monster also helps you young quarterback there and Trevor Lawrence too, So we'll we'll find out what happens come draft night. And I really am curious to see what type of poll.

You know, coach Eric Studisville has who has been up or not upgraded promoted from running backs coach and running game coordinator to co offensive coordinator. And you talked about on the previous podcast yesterday about him getting production out of Miles Gaskin in the seventh round, the addition of Matt Brita in the fifth round last season, and now we've got Malcolm Brown is a new addition here this season as well. I'll be very curious see what happens

at that position. But as we move along here, you know, we talked about receivers a lot on the podcast yesterday, but the hitch just keep coming here Man Darius Tony, Ron Del Moore, Elijah Moore, Terrence Marshall, Diamy Brown, Like, who of these guys do you separate among? Or like who separates himself as the clear cut best option at this pick. How many guys do you think are and play at pick thirty six and just kind of give

us your rundown on this. I guess second tier of receivers and and maybe it's just me, but I would put one of the guys that we have here at fifty and Mari Rodgers in the same bucket as these guys here that we have listed at thirty six, and and for some of them, maybe even in front of Terrence Marshall, is has some parallels to Davante Parker's games, so there's, you know, a clear model of that kind

of player. But he's apparently been flagged for some medical stuff at the medical checks in Indianapolis that had some teams reportedly uh dinging him for medical stuff, and you may potentially see him slide where he was in conversation. There's a lot of wide receiver needy teams in the twenties, so potential late first round kind of guy. But if you ask me to pick one that I really like out of this group, it is Elijah Moore out of

Old miss uh Explosive plays. That's gonna be the name of the game anytime we're talking about wide receivers and winning vertically down the field. And he's another speed guy with a lot of burner ability. He's similarly built to Jalen Waddle. So if I'm gonna pound the table for jam Leen Waddle, there's no reason why size is gonna

determine from pounding the table. As a later option for Elijah Moore and watching him in that lane kiff in offense was a lot of fun to see the ways that they got him involved, got him touching the football um and I think his release package off the line of scrimmage against press coverage. I know that was one of the questions Travis that we talked about yesterday about jay Len Wattle. Uh, he's gonna put you in the

blender at the line of scrimmage. And Kadarius Tony. To be fair to Candarius Tony, he went up to the Senior Bowl, he did the exact same thing. Uh. Those two guys have really really rare short area quickness. So for Miami, it's okay, do you want another big body guy to play outside? You have two really tall guys in Devonte Parker and Preston Williams. Do you want some of those speedy guys to compete with you, Keen Grant

for those reps. Do you want some of those hybrid slot type guys like Glbert Wilson coming back from opting out and Limboden Jr. Who's probably going to be that kind of player with his style of play. So they've got a couple of different subsections of what this wide

receiver room looks like. Elijah More would fit into that your Keen Graham bucket, just like Jane Watterle and Peter Scheger came on the podcast a couple of weeks back and talked about how he believes that can Darius Tony and Ron del Moore are not just picking or you know, positioning for that possible fourth receiver off the board. He thinks they might even be able to disrupt the top three, which I don't agree with, but, like you mentioned, never

say never when it comes to the NFL draft. We have seen crazier things before the John Raw selection a few years ago. It was a big curveball in that draft. It happens every single year. Let's and I also want to go ahead and mention that I'm glad you mentioned Elijah More. I kind of gave you a thumbs up when you said that, because I continue to hear the exact same things about this guy, and the more I do, the more I think, I don't know if he's gonna be there at pick thirty six. So he's got a

lot of buzz probably not being honest, probably not. Yeah, and that's that's a bummer, because that's a good spot to get him if you can. But maybe we don't have to worry about that because it is a Jalen Wall or Kyle Pitts or whatever it might be in the top of the first round. Now, I think personally, Kyle, this is where the offensive line conversation really heats up for me because you start to introduce the interior, the interior of the offensive line with Landon Dickerson and Creed

Humphrey and Dylan Raddins. Who's a tackle But maybe you can kick inside and maybe even Quinn minor two will come back to maybe in the second portion of this round, Um, Jalen Mayfield, Samuel cos Me. There's so many guys in this class that that might go off the board in this range. Who are the best fits? Is this a good time to take an interior offensive lineman. Just just talk about this offensive line class at pick thirty six to kick off the second round. Yeah, I think this

is this is a really compelling group. And I think, again going back to what we've seen the Dolphins gravitate towards, I think the average weight of the ten guys that they've brought in since the start of the two thousand and twenty off season is three pounds. So like they like big dudes up front, and you've got a big dude in Landon Dickerson three thirty pounds owns for my money, He's he he's gonna give you the most appeal from Miami.

Uh experience working with two of talking about loa experience in the style of offense that it seems like Miami wants to take some of and replicate, taking what to it did successful at Alabama and transplanting some of that over. Very active in communication on the line of scrimmage. Uh. And he's he fits the physical mold, but and the medicals are super scary with him as far as he's got a pretty extensive list of injury issues. UH that may cause him to slip a little bit. So much

like Jalen Phillips the discussion that we had yesterday. If you're just evaluating him off of his fit and his style of play and his talents, Landon Dickerson is that dude, but from a medical perspective that may cause those dynamics to change. And Creed humphrey wrestling background is super apparent with him. I really like his ability to to work across face and kind of win gaps by reaching defensive players,

and how well he uses his hands in close quarters. Uh, you'd be hard pressed to go wrong by drafting either one of those two, if you trust Landon Dickerson to stay healthy, or if you're gonna pick up Creed Humphrey and ask him to be that keystone piece in the middle. But I do think it's gonna be interesting to see how Miami chooses to flesh out the inside. They obviously invested so much in offensive tackle last year, and uh, they signed Eric Flowers and and Solomon Kinley was the

mid round pick. And Okay, do you choose to not just address that spot? Do you choose to invest in inside the way that you invested in offensive tackles last year? Um? And if they do, this is probably the spot You're gonna have to get one of Dickerson or Humphrey, you

elso're gonna have to come back to the board later. Yeah, And you had sent me a text awhile back about some workout metrics and the explosion that the tracts in comparison to this, the size of these guys, and how that kind of has been the Dolphins mold on the offensive line. And the other thing I would add to that is obviously a position of versatility because beef and and explosion explosiveness and and position verse futility have been

definite prototypes on that offensive line. So I'll be curious to see how much they weigh that into the decision if they go in the offensive line in the second round. Another position that I think is very attractive here and at fifty is the possible edge spot, and it kind of has that, you know, maybe the weak part of the top of the class pushes some of these guys down into the thirty six, maybe even to the fifty range. And I had a hard time separating thirty six to fifty.

I mean, it's only four teen picks apart, so it's not the easiest thing to do. But the guys I listened for you, Kyle Peyton, Turner, Greg Russo, uh Aziz, Larjolari, Joe try On, Jason O Way, and then Carlos Basham, who I can't. To me, I'm very confused by the perception of Carlos Basham. To me, he's a first round pick all day. I think that, especially for the Miami Dolphins and what he brings. He is almost Emmanuel Ogba light and the way he plays the game. But is

that list of guys good? How many of those guys do you think I should bump down to fifty? And is this a possible spot for edge to come off the board for the Miami Dolphins. I would not be s prized if Gregor Rousseau out of this group is the guy that goes closest to fifty or is there at fifty. Um did not play in twenty. For some teams, that's gonna matter more than others. His pro day testing he was too sixty six. He had a really good tenure d split, but everything else he did was okay.

You know, he didn't hurt himself. But he's one of those players where so much of his success at Miami in two thousand nineteen came on inside gaps and if you can get him up to two seventy eight to eighty five, I'm really excited about his potential as kind

of that hybrid defensive lineman. But if you're gonna play him at to sixty five and ask him to rush off the edge, I think that developmental curve from him is significantly steeper than taking him and asked him to do what he want at in two thousand and nineteen is a red shirt freshman, but bash him. Yeah, late last week that the Twitter timeline was talking about Carlos Bashaim all day and how this guy is underappreciated and you mentioned immanuelg But my working calm for him, I

had two names that came to mind. It was the Boise State evaluation of Curtis Weaver, who the Dolphins draft in the fifth round. And from an athletic profile perspective, I think Shack Lawson's like the most immediate comparison to the athletic profile that he presented. So those were two Miami Dolphins right there. So he definitely fits the mold of what Miami has looked for and gravitated towards in

the edge. Rushing group, and he's another one of those guys that dominates at the line of scrimmage, wins the point of attack. He's been very productive both in tackles for loss and in sack production finding the football. His sack ceiling or pass rush ceiling is not as high as Payton turn around of Houston. It's not as high as Joe Tronting out of Washington. It's not as high as Jason Oa at of Penn State. But Oha played this past year and didn't log a single sack, and

you know his athletic profiles through the roof. But he's what we could We talked about with Quitt pay yesterday as far as developing into your past rush plan. Oh wait, you're almost him from square one. Uh so you might get to that point on the board and say, hey, we're at thirty six. We trust ourselves to develop players.

The ceiling here is immeasurable. But I would probably stack him behind guys like Carlos Basham and Joe try On and even probably Peyton Turner, who is another really interesting name. He had a successful offseason campaign with what he did. Azizo Glari is the one for me that I'm a little lukewarm on as far as he played around to five to fifty um, he he would be more of the Van Ginkle type role for me personally based on

how he wanted Georgia. But if you're drafting him and asking him to play and take those shack loss In type reps, um, I think they would probably go for a guy with a little bit more size, whether it's try On or bash him or Turner. And this this position group and the way you kind of went down that player by player, you know, not to say that I'm sitting here from a position where I get draft right every single year, every single pick. It's far from that.

But I've just had so much difficulty this year figuring out which groupings of these players. And maybe it is the lack of evidence we have from this past scouting, you know, cycle that's causing that same problem for me, as I'm sure it is for many scouts and decision makers alike. But I just cannot figure out which direction you might go from here in the old. If this, then that tree the game that I love playing this

time of year. Now. At the end of yesterday's podcast, I teased one of your favorite players in this draft to come up to the linebacker position here. And I've got two guys in this list. To me, one of them goes in the first round, the other one does not. The one that does not is your your guy, your bread and buddy, you're your dude. Jamon Davis is a player I'm talking about from Kentucky with the incredible testing time.

And then Baron Browning who worked with Miami at the Senior Bowl and coach Camp and Ellie and there was a great segment with him coaching him up and hitting the bag and stacking and shedding and him yelling at him. Coach Camp is a great So talk about Baron Browning talking about Jamon Davis this linebacker spot, after all the additions we saw but Ardrick McKinney and Duke Riley and Bran Scarlett, is this position in play right here? And

is it? Baron Browning? If anybody, I still think that Kyle van noy role needs to be occupied by somebody. And whether you're gonna trust Andrew Vin Kinkle to take that role totally, if you're gonna take trust him to take it partially and get somebody a little later in the draft to take it. I think that's up for debate. Jamon Davis to me projects a little bit more as a true like Mike Linebacker as far as his developmental ceiling,

and he's gonna get drafted high. Like. The closer we get to the draft, the more and more confident I am he's not gonna be anywhere close to available at thirty six right he he will be gone based on the momentum in the trajectory of the narrative around Jamon Davis out of Kentucky. But length and pass skills and sideline to sideline speed is a great combination of things to have. It's not too dissimilar from Tremaine Edmonds out of Virginia Tech who got drafted sixteenth overall by the

Buffalo Bills a couple of years ago. He's not as big as Tremaine Edmunds, but Edmonds was similar prototypical length, sideline to sideline speed. I would say Davis is smaller. He's probably also better in coverage than what Tremaine Emmons was coming out of Virginia Tech and he got drafted sixteenth overall, So that's kind of the ballpark. I think top twenty, top twenty five for Jamie Davis is where you're gonna hear him get his name called. But man,

Baron Browning. I get so excited about his evaluation, and it really stems from the fact that he was recruited to House State to play outside linebacker, and then Luke Vickle left like three months after he or three weeks after he committed to Ohio State, and then they played him inside, and then this past year was the year that they finally moved Baron Browning back outside, and his tape this year was so much better, and it allowed him to get out of trying to process the entire

offense and read all his keys and the ways that they used him as a guy who's six three two forty five pounds runs four five five as a pressure player off the second level, slash flexed out into the slot up on the line of scrimmage. His zone drops

are textbook. One of the things that we did at td N this past years we had uh an NFL externship where we had two active players in the league who spent some time with their scouting department, and one of them uh Andrew Dowles, a linebacker for the New Orleans Saints, And I had a chance to watch Baron Browning tape with him, sit down and just were like

jaws on the floor. We watched the Clemson game, in the Alabama game, the last two games that he played when he finally had a couple of games to kind of work his way back into Okay, I'm an outside linebacker, I'm not inside anymore. And he was textbook with his zone drops. And I think about where Miami struggled the most, and it was that middle of the field, countering those over routes, those deep crossers. Baron Browning has the ability to hit those landmarks, make an impact there, and also

be an impact player in the pressure situation. So he's a really exciting player for me when you iron project. And then you also add on the layer that he was there at the Senior Bowl and the Dolphins had a chance to coach him for a week. There's some dots there that that if they like him, I wouldn't be surprised at all if they chose to draft him and let him take some of that plate that's left

behind by Kyle Van Noy's departure. You make a really compelling case, man, like I'm I'm over here, Like yeah, let's turn the card in right now. Let's go ahead and make that happen. And it kind of goes back to the conversation we had on the podcast yesterday about this. The Dolphins kind of doing things their own way in the front seven. And you've seen so many different formations from this group, whether it's a two four or three four, maybe even a one four. Sometimes they'll go ahead and

toss out four linebackers with only one down lineman. They've done some crazy different packages up front, and I think Flores can never get enough linebackers in this defense. So I think it's certainly comes into play at that spot. If not earlier, you never know. And I want to go ahead and finish up Thisty s pick with our first talking about the defensive backs, because you know J. C. Horne, Patrick's or Tan are great players. I don't think they're

gonna be there eighteen. I don't know if they're on the Dolphins radar at that spot because of the influx of defensive backs we have in that room. But at this spot, maybe there's some value. Maybe it's the three names I have and you can add to this. Kyle Asante Samuel Jr. For the fact that he can both play inside outside. Trayvon Marrig from TCU, the Rangi safety back there, and then Javon Holland, who is your kind of classic, you know, box safety type of guy. Are

those three names you would go with? Who else would you add to that list? Is this a spot for defensive back? Possibly? Yeah, I think this is the right group of names to be talking about here in the early second round. Trevon Mary if he's there in the early second round, man, he's His ability to play in the high post and be the single high free safety is really exciting. And uh TCU Gary Patterson the head coach there, they play a really interesting style of defense

in which they have three separate calls. They've they've got the box, they've got the front side, and they've got the backside. And the front side is the read side, and Travon marings most often playing into the field, so he's on the red side, and it's all pattern matching and sight adjustments and making your reads as far as

what you're druging. So it's a very cerebral style of of playing in coverage and it's not just Okay, we're gonna play in twenty yards deep and trust his sideline to sideline ability and no he I mean he's cutting cross routes over the middle of the field, he's jumping down to the catch point. He's getting down in the

run fits. And that was one of my favorite things about listening to Eric Row in the preseason last year's talking about, Uh, the biggest devolution for me and changing from corner to safety is getting acclimated with what the run fits are and understanding what my gap responsibilities are and like all of those things matter and for to have a cerebral player who you know in this Brian Flores defense, He's talked about communication being one of the

primary variables that is important to them on the back end of the defense. I think Trevon Rorick has the ability to do that. Uh. Javon Holland's surprised with his athletic profile. Uh. He's done a little bit of everything in Oregon. But the anticipation when you Ashton play was athletically he might not be a top shelf athlete. Well, he made the most of his time off he opted out of and he tested really really well, like way better than everybody's expectations are. So I think he's pushed

himself probably up in the top fifty conversation. So if you want a guy who can do it all, I'll be interested to see just how much Miami wants to put on Brandon Jones's plate. Obviously him is a mid round pick, third round pick in last year's draft, and not on the field a good bit and made some really nice flashes for the team. Um, they're gonna go with some sub Is he gonna be the third safety

de facto? They're looking for competition? Um that those are questions that only the Dolphins are gonna be able to answer. But that would be the type of role I would envision for Javon Holland. I'll go with a not so humble bragg here and just say you're welcome for getting questions like that to Eric Rowe when those guys come up to the media. We've we've been looking for those questions for a while. I'm happy to be the one

that can deliver him for you in those press conferences. Uh, Kyle, we've we've taken had a been a time here for the first three picks. Let's go ahead and pick it right back up at pick number fifty. Kyle crabs, the Draft network locked on Dolphins USA today, Dolphins Wire, And let's just go ahead and go through a few of these positions. Real quick running back spot, I've got Michael Carter.

Does anybody else belong in that position? To you? Probably not? Uh, And I'm not even sure Michael Carter, with what his strengths and weaknesses are, is going to be a player that he feels pretty redundant to what you have in Miles Gaskin at this point. Um So, I don't think running back fifty would be the spot that they would make a play in that if they were to miss the first wave of guys. Perfect look at you hitting

the quick moniker right away to the receiver position. You talked about Amari Rodgers coming in this bucket right here, and I am inclined to agree. I just think he's one of those guys you watch on tape and you say that guy is gonna be a good football player wherever he goes. To me, he looks like one of those guys that goes to a high powered passing offense and just catches like eighty balls his rookie year. Does

he fall into this spot? I know you mentioned him at picked number thirty six, and then I've also got Le's see amand Ross st Brown, um Dwayne es Gridge in the spot as well. Who else do you like in this spot at the receiver position? Yeah, I think that you you may see Rondale Moore here to who we talked about at thirty six, just because of the injury issues. He had a hamstring issue in two thousand

and uh nineteen. I think it cost him eight games, and then he came back this year and missed the first half of an abbreviated season with lomhole what was a hamstring issue. So, uh, it's anytime you get those small, speedy they're like exotic race cars right where they got to be finely tuned and if something's just a little off, it really impacts their games. So Rondale Moore endurability may

drop him into this conversation. But Amari Rodgers, built like a running back five ten, two hundred eleven pounds, had a chance. I went down to the House of Athlete combine that was put on by Brandon Marshall and he was one of the guys that was there, and it's like, that's a wide receiver, no way like he's slapped together

really well. So when you think about his style of play, Guey who runs a lot of bubbles, the working traffic in the shallow areas of the field, and then he he was able to attack down the field and bounce back and got his explosiveness back after playing in two thousand and nineteen. I think he tore tore up his knee in in March and played the whole season, but you could tell he wasn't explosive. He's got that explosiveness

back now, so I think his style of play. Remember, Tony Elliott was reported to be on the list of candidates potentially Miami was interested in interviewing for their offensive coordinator vacancy. Uh So if that is true, then that would be a player that you think they would like some of what they saw if they liked what the offense looked like. So uh, Amari Rodgers is definitely my

favorite out of this group. H Skridge at the Senior Bowl was another one of those guys who just put guys in a blender and run runs confirmed four three with laser time. The concern with him as he was originally a defensive player and then transitioned over the offensive side of the all, he's a little bit of an older prospect. If that's something that's gonna, you know, maybe deter you from drafting. Uh, he's a little bit more

physically mature. But coming from Western Michigan and having to transition from the defensive side of the football, Uh, that may cause for a little bit steeper transition to the offensive side of the game. In the prolo pretty rare to see a defensive bat go over to receiver. It goes against the old adage, right like, oh, he can't catch the ball, put him on defense. But he did the opposite, and like you mentioned, he really shined at that Senior Bowls. I'll be curious to where he goes

off the board. And speaking of guys that change positions, you know, I mentioned him at thirty six, but going to the offensive line. Now, Miami got their hands on Quinn Minors out of Wisconsin Whitewater, and this guy has become a Norse god of sorts, a mythical legend in the draft process and the draft run up. And he was a guy that kicked inside and played center at the Senior Bowl. I know you love this guy, talk about him. I've also got Tray Smith right here? Is

this too high for him? With his medical and also Alex Leatherwood the tackle, so I really went tackle center guard at the spot? Who do you like? What do you think? I think Tray Smith is this is probably a little premature for him. Um, you feel for him. He missed some time with the blood clouds issues and uh then Tennessee played him at left tackle for a bit. But Tennessee is a program that has consistently had issues

with developing talent. I would say Tray Smith right now is the same caliber of a player that he was when he showed up as a freshman phenom at Tennessee. So hasn't had the opportunity to develop his game quite to the degree in which he might like. So that's kind of a cause for question. At the very least, Alex Leatherwood will probably be gone by here at fifties. He's got experienced playing both guard and tackle. Uh, so

that versatility will move the needle. And then he showed up at the Bama Prota like three twelve and jumped in like the percentile and the standing broad jumps. So there's some explosiveness there. And I don't think he played at three twelve, but he got down to three twelve, and that's a great testament to how dynamic he is in linear situations, which is what any fit for him is going to be best or asked him to do, which is play vertical and get off the line of

scrimmage and move bodies. But I think he's a he'd be a great fit for the Dolphins. Is just a question of would he be there, and if he's there at fifty and you haven't taken an offensive lineman yet, like, yeah, that's it's He played right guard and left tackle, so you know, at the very least he's gonna be able to play on both sides the line of scrimmage, inside and outside. Quinn Miners. There's a connection here with Wisconsin Whitewater.

He shares an album matter with a very significant member of the Dolphins coaching staff, Eric Stoodisville. Uh, also from Wisconsin Whitewater. There's the Senior Bowl connection. Uh. He is three pounds is an into your offensive lineman. We've talked about how the Dolphins like big players up front, So I think there's a number of dots to connect here where if they enjoyed that experience coaching him at the

Senior Bowl. It might help with the sales pitch to make that decision despite the fact that he played at a small school in Wisconsin, Whitewater, because they worked hands on with him all week ago. Yeah, it's I'm in. I'm in on that guy. He's He's how much fun to watch the videos of him chopping down trees up in Canada. It's just it's so fitting and so perfect

for an offensive lineman. You talk about the wrestling background of Creed Humphrey, this just goes hand in hand with offensive line to just guys that are burly and got the big gut hanging out. I love watching him play a ball in that sense. Now we gotta pick us up, Kyle. We're kind of we're taking a long time on this, but I'll go ahead and group together the entire front seven at the spot I listed Levi on Moozoiki out of Washington, nailed the pronunciation. There um a couple of

guys at the edge spot as well. I think kind of some follow some some trickle down from that thirty six spot. I don't have anybody at linebacker. What do you think at the front seven at this spot? So on mozoique Is is a guy who really helped himself with the Senior Bowl as well. He showed up on the first day and he was a player you didn't get a chance to see and uh, he was phenomenal in the first day as a penetration type player. Um, what I look at in the front seven, it's any

of those leftover guys at edge that might be there. Uh, that is kind of the sweet spot for I feel really good about the value of getting any one of those guys. I think Peyton Turner is probably gonna be gone, Carlos Basham is a fair chance to get there. It sounds like Joe Tryon is gonna have a big um group of teams that are liking him. So it's Gregory Russo, Peyton Turner, I think, are Carlos Bashim Um are some

of your reasonable names to look for here. And if you haven't taken an edge group, those are all traitsy guys in different ways. Um. I think they all have appeal for Miami, and that's obviously why they're on the shortlist to talk about, because they stylistically fit what the

Dolphins are looking to do. So I have a hard time seeing a top fifty pick, and I'm sure Miami will go a different direction and prove me wrong here, but I have a hard time with the top fifty pick on an interior defensive lineman, just with how much depth they have in that group right now. And we move on here to the eighty first pick in the draft.

The third round gonna be a bit of a weight there from round two to round three, and then we have a long way from round three to round five where we pick once in the fifth round, twice in the seventh round, and we'll go ahead and speed through the day three picks and some of your favorite names. I'm gonna kind of rely on you for that, Kyle, because this year it's been a little bit harder to get the information on those guys, and you guys do a great job of rounding out the entire draft all

seven rounds, So we'll lead on you for that. But at pick number eighty one, the running back spot, again you mentioned Michael Carter maybe comes back into play at this spot. I put down Trey Sermon out of Ohio State, Kenneth Gainwell from Memphis, and Jared Jefferson there as well. So who do you like in that group. Is this a spot where maybe the Dolphins go running back if

they miss on one of the big three. Tray Sermon is the guy, as far as I'm concerned to really look for as an early down runner who's physical between the tackles. I played around two fifteen pounds. They ran a ton of inside zone there at Ohio State. You look at that offensive line with why David sit right guard and Josh Meyers at center, and those are big body guys. And Miami ran a lot of split flow zone and in ide zone this past year, and um

Sermon really really picked it up. He transferred from Oklahoma. But then he comes out and starting the Michigan State game. It's a three game stretch in the second half of the season for how State. He was hurting the National Championship game, but Michigan State, Northwestern and Clemson he put

up like seven ud rush yards in three games. It was like unbelievable, and it was just he got a lot of help from his offensive line, but he was running with confidence again and uh running inside zone between the tackles, kind of showing patients when he needed to put his foot on the gas pedal when he needed to that's the guy running back from me. If you miss on one of the big three guys, let's go ahead and group the offensive line with the edge position

here and kind of talk about that. In totality, I put down Jackson Carmen from Clemson, Spencer Brown and Ellerson Smith, both from Northern Iowa at the spot. Now I know both of Northern Iowa guys blew up their pro days and their workouts. Jackson Carmen a big do This had plenty of games there for a very good Clemson team. Who do you like in the trenches? Possibly in the third round? So this is this is a bit of a dead zone as far as I'm concerned with valuation

and ideal value versus the merits of the players. I would be remissed to not mention Josh Meyers, the center from Ohio State. I'd also be remissed to not mention Ben Cleveland, another interior offensive lineman from the University of Georgia. You want to talk about big offensive lineman, This dude's built like the Mountain from Game of Thrones. He's three four pounds like he is a monster at right guard. Uh So, Miami obviously, Solomon Kinley they like that size

there on the inside. I think both of those guys as a third round options maybe a little rich, uh, but like I said, it's it's kind of a dead zone there. I really like your call out for Ellerson Smith as a tools he developmental guy, and I think there's a couple of other options here to Genarius Robinson from Florida State was another guy that was down at

the Senior Bowl six five, two sixties six. He is a prototypical, first off the bus kind of player where he's gonna intimity the other team when they see him and say, okay, like this is what we're up against today. He looks the part. Now. Unfortunately, his development was stunted. Much like we talked about with Tray Smith and Tennessee,

Florida State has really struggled with player development. I thought the light bulb came on for him a little bit in the first year with the new coaching staff, but his ability and consistency in creating pressure and penetration place

is not where you'd like it to be. So uh, you're drafting him, they're based on traits if that's where you're going to choose to covet Genarious Robins, and this is where we kind of introduced the defensive back position really in earnest for the first time as far as the depth of the of the group, and maybe these guys go up a little bit higher. But I've got my personal favorite and Tyree Gillispia that that Alabama tape alone put him like as a Day two pick for me.

Right off the bat. You don't stand up Nag Harris at the goal line and then chase down Jalen Waddles on an end around and not catch my attention. Jamar Johnson from Indiana had a hell of a game against Ohio State and really was a big reason why that was a contest lay into that game. Richie Grant seems to have everybody's eye from UCF after his incredible Senior

Bowl week. Paulson Adibo, a guy that was a possible first round pick last year who came back and now has kind of fallen into the second day maybe third day idea. Elijah Molden I'm gonna butcher the safety from Florida State. And Nazarel Dean his last name Hampsa I believe is his first name. Um is this is this the spot where maybe defensive back starts to come into the conversation and do you like any of those guys in particular? Yeah, I think there's some some really interesting

hybrid type players. And you mentioned Elijah Molden who played some deep safety, but for being honest, season Nicol at the next level and and obviously the Dolphins have brought in some competition to go against Nick need Hum with the decision to sign Justin Coleman in free agency. So if you're gonna be a competition based group, Um, Elijah Molten in the slot would be a lot of fun. Uh. He is a super smart football player. I think his

cerebral style of play would would really be attractive to Miami. Uh. Um. I look at if you're looking for a hybrid safety, I'll do you one better from Hanson Asladin and I'll give you Divine Diablo from Virginia Tech, who is six ft three, two six pounds, a very good tester as far as his pre draft process. He's got a lot of range. And you think about hybrid safeties and what their appeal is, and it's okay, can he get into the slot, And that's not necessarily where he wins. He's

more of that added safety. That's that's gonna kind of be the scrape defender and run fits when you're in those conflicts with two tight ends on the field. Like we talked about on yesterday's show about what the appeal of bring Kyle pits into the phrase it gives you those personnel conflicts. I think he can be a player who can develop with time into that. But Jamar Johnson from Indiana is the best name that you mentioned in this group. Uh, he can play in the slot, play

man a man. He's got really good ball skills, he's physical, He's played split half field coverage and had success doing that. Go watch him flip his hips and open against a vertical route and in the honey hole against Cover two against Michigan, and watch him blow that receiver up on the sideline. Like he can do a lot of things on the back end. So that's the exciting player for me in this group. Let's go ahead and speed round this thing to close it out before we get to

your seven round mock draft. I do want to hear you go over who you're picking in this class if you've gotten that ready for me, Kyle. But let's go ahead and day three. We know the Dolphins have a fifth round pick in two seventh round picks. We'll see if that's sticks, if they actually stay in those spots and make those picks. Let's go a position by position and just a few words on a player you like. I'll go ahead and start because I don't want you to take my running back from me. I'm gonna go

with Kylan Hill right here. This was a very productive player before Mike Leach got there and winds up opting out. I thought Mike Leach arriving there was going to open up his passing game prowess or or unlock the ability of showcase that he can do it in the passing game. Didn't quite happen for him this year. But Kylan Hills my guy on Day three at running back. Who's yours? Well, let's be fair. He caught eight passes in the opening game against Ellis you before he opted out for the season,

so you weren't wrong. He got those catches in and active. I got two backs. Romandre Stevenson from Oklahoma two twenty seven pounds. He's another physical guy, but the one that that's kind of the gem that I would love to see Miami get a crack on on Day three if they needed to. Is Chris Evans from Michigan. Uh. He was academically ineligible in two thousand and nineteen, came back this past year, only had a handful of carries. I

think it was under twenty carries of the football. I thin get twenty five touches on the season, um, but eleven to sixteen. Uh. He had phenomenal testing numbers at the Michigan Pro Day. UH every test like plus forty inches in the vert Uh. He was in the four fours for his forty yard dash time he was four four four. His agilities he ran like a six eight three condre, so like for a bigger back. He checked

a lot of athletic boxes. And he's got low tread on the tires because he was ineligible in twenty nineteen, and he played a very brievity role this past year. So that's kind of the shot in the dark Day three back that I like, and Flow spoke glowingly about him at the Senior Bowl as well too. So some good company there. I'll let you go ahead and kick

us off at receiver. Thanks Travis. I appreciate that opportunity to give a little love to my guy Emir Smith March set from the University of Iowa six six former track background, And I'll tell you what, man, he won a lot more than he got the football at Iowa. That the quarterback play and there at Iowa. If you get the all twenty two, you're biting your tongue of times. Man like man put the ball on him. He had opportunities down the field game in and game out. He had.

He did have a d u i uh this past fall and his season ended. He did a front flip into the end zone to celebrate and injured. Had a lower body injury that stemmed from that, and it unfortunately ended his season prematurely. So there's some things there that I think are going to contribute to him probably being available on day three. It's just a question if if Miami doesn't get any additional picks, does he get all the way there? To you, I think that pick is

at one six, that's the question. I'm gonna go ahead and take a guy who you know first of all your Iowa passing game Comma as evergreen by the way, But I'm gonna go ahead and take two too. At well, even though he came in at or whatever it was. And the reason I'm doing that is part A because I want to say that I'm heavier than an NFL wide receiver, and part two, I just love this guy's

competitive toughness at the catchpoint. Obviously, he can blow by people with a straight line speed and the game speed more so than the testing speed. But I was so impressed by the way he was able to track and catch the football down the field even with that small frame, and the way he competed with that small frame at tight end. I don't have much of a little explanation for you here, but I'm going with Tommy Tremble out of another dame. Who's your tight end pick? I think

Tommy's going on day two. To be honest with you, I think he can do enough. Uh. I like John Bates from Boise State. He was another guy that that ended up going down to the Senior Bowl. He's not really a standout player in in his receiving skills or his blocking skills, but he does everything very well. Um, he's probably gonna be that fifth sixth round tight end that's gonna have to cut his teeth on and special teams a little bit. But I think he's got soft hands.

He found voids in the middle of the field. John Bates from Boise State would be my Day three tight end and go ahead and kick us off on the offensive line. Oh man, tell me to go first. No, I'm gonna go. Trey Hill from the University of Georgia center h six three pounds at his pro day. Uh. You had a chance to watch him play alongside Solomon Kinley in two thousand and nineteen, so you know that

there's a fit there. As far as if the Dolphins like Solomon Kinley, they're probably gonna like some of what Trey Hill brings to the table. Uh, power center. I think he has the ability to to reset the line of scrimmage pretty consistently, and he's got a good reach. You know, for a center. He was over thirty I think thirty three and a half inches in his arm length.

So it's those people will ask why his arm length matter would but that ability to create that first punch, especially as a center when you're in closed quarters and everybody's so close together, though, that extra inch or two inches can really be the difference in you being able to consistently dictate first contact. So Trey hop from George's a Day three offensive lineman that I like a bit. We've seen length as a priority for the staff on the offensive line. I mean I talked about it all

the time. Jared Jones Smith the a F signing at training camp. I stood next to that human being and I was like, we are not the same species. This is unreal to be next to this person. My pick is gonna be from B y U Brady Christiansen. Maybe he's not, maybe he's earlier than this, maybe he's later. You can tell me. But I just like the way he plays from a technique standpoint and a competitive toughness standpoint.

I think that he checks a lot of the boxes of Dolphins like in that regard on day three as a developmental offensive line, I'll go ahead and keep it for the defensive line and go ahead and go with Cam sample kind of a squatty body, explosive first step. I think he can give you some stuff off the edge of this defense. What say you, I'm gonna give you at a cumbo Ogundiji from Notre Dame. Look, I've been working on that one a long time, So I

actually did that one. A locked on doll Fins had a couple of Notre Dame fans say, hey, this is how it's pronounced. Make sure you get it right. Put some respect on my guy's name. You talk about length up front, he's got like thirty five inch arms, and he's got really surprising hand utilization to be able to understand, Okay, I gotta attack this guy at his risk and his hands off my frame. Uh bend explosiveness aren't hallmarks of

his game. But he's got long arms, he can win at the point of attack, and he understands how to deconstruct blocks. Those things, combined with his stature at six fifty six, make him a pretty attractive Day three prospect for Miami in my eyes. And go ahead and kick us off at linebacker as well. It's a name that we haven't mentioned yet. I'm not sure where the league's gonna end up settling on him, but Pete Warner from Ohio State six three, two forty two, so he's a

bigger linebacker. I'm watching him against Clemson and like Clemson's motioning away from him and they end up rotating him and playing him high post and so playing all the way back at two footy two, playing like free safety against Clemson. So there's some really nice versatility there. And you watched him in the box and he's really physical, and I like the way he hits, and I like the way he gets it gets down into challenging offensive lineman. So I don't hear a lot of buzz for Pete Warner.

I have a really hard time getting a feel on where the league stands on Pete Warner. But I'm higher on him than day three. But if he's there on day three, like you need to need a linebacker, you need some insurance for Bernardrick McKinney, who's looking to bounce back from an injury that ended his two thousand and twenties season, Pete Warner will be a good way to go.

I'm gonna stay right there with you. I'm gonna I'm gonna say Pete Warren myself on day three and take the easy out and finish us off here in the secondary with Damar Hamlin out of Pittsburgh. Of course, another guy at the Senior Bowl with the Miami Dolphins playing that safety position got himself a pick and Brian Flores loved it on the sideline when he got that pick

in the game frowned us out here. Kyle's safety, defensive back, cornerback, whatever it might be, who you like, and Cameron buying him from feels like such a lazy one because he was at the Senior Bowl, the cow Connection coach Alexander there in the secondary. But as a guy, you're looking for those later picks who might be there and be available and plays tough. I think he can be a

special team's guy. Cameron buying him, I think has enough connections to Miami that I think he's one to watch there. At the end of day three, I'm gonna throw it right back to you here and put you on the spot, and I'll go ahead and wrap it up afterwards and maybe critique it a a little bit. Have you got one yet? Have you put that around mock draft together? Is it gonna be where you gonna publish that thing? And and

go ahead and throw it at us. All right? So I did this one especially for you guys here on the show. So at at six, I do have the Dolphins drafting my preferred choice of the Alabama wide receivers, Jalen Waddle at eighteen. Of course, I'm using the Draft network dot Com draft simulator so I was kind of at the mercy of some of who the players were and weren't that available. So that's always the tough challenge that this puts you in. It's a lot of the

names that I would typically associate. Sometimes they're they're sometimes they're not. I went with Quitty pay at eighteen, overall defensive end from University of Michigan. At thirty six, I did land Javonte Williams, the running back from North Carolina that we talked about at fifty. Travis Quinn Miners is the pick there at fifties, So I know that'll make

you happy, hopefully get an a grade out of you. Uh. Eighty one is the actually where I did land Pete Warner, the linebacker from Ohio State, so tail in middle of round three. Um, I didn't get a chance to really Baron Browning was gone. Uh, I needed to get the running back I felt like at thirty six, so I just Baron Brownie or Pete Warner sitting there at eighty one was an attractive fit for me. Another senior Bowl guy we did not mention Joshua Bledsoe from Missouri in

the fifth round. He's a safety who plays primarily in the slot, a lot of man the man coverage. He's super scrappy. I think he'll play really good on special teams for you. I like his demeanor quite a bit. And then the two seventh round picks, I picked William Bradley King, a defensive end from Baylor formerly of Arkansas State. Uh. Prototypical Bill. He's got the length, of the density, the size that the Dolphins like at their defensive end position.

And then another defensive back, Avery Williams from Boise State. Uh. This, this dude has the best special team's cut I have seen in the last few years as far as blocked punts, punt returns for touchdowns, himself blocked punts that teammates are returning for touchdowns. Uh. He's showing up on defense. He's

not overly big. But Avery Williams from Boise State. Uh. He had said in his pre draft process, some things we're talking aboutbout potentially spending some time as a third down running back and catching the ball out of the bat like he You want to talk about versatility, and the Dolphins love guys. The more you can do, right. Avery Williams from Boise State was a guy saw him there. At the end of the simulation, I said, I got a draft. As it during to my guest to say

it's an a draft. I mean you got the playmaker, the explosive playmaker, the explosive separator of four down player, and Jalen Waddle, who I think just fits right into this defense and gives you instant production and changes the way the defense has to play against you from day number one. So home run pick there. Quitty pay at number eighteen. We talked about the fit, the lateral agility, that first step get off, give him some runway, let him use those loose hips and kind of run those

games and move about the defensive line. You just put another dynamic piece to your front seven. Javonte Williams at thirty six. The running back position to me is now solved to me, the best running back in this entire class, and I just love what he brings to the game. Quinn Minors to me, could step in a day one in play center for you. Maybe maybe he's a year two guy after we see what happens with Matt screw

of this season, So I love that pick. We both talked about Pete Warner and the value he provides at that spot to give you another piece in that front seven. And I'm gonna go ahead and admit to you, I'm not familiar with Bradley King's games, so I can't give you grade on that seventh round draft pick, which I know, terrible of me. But the special teams of all you added there and Bloods and then Williams at the end, that's right up my alley, right up the Dolphins alley.

A plus draft, my friend. I do what I can. I'd like to think I know the team a little bit. It works. The whole draft and Dolphins thing is that it's not a bad avenue for you, Kyle. You're doing pretty good at it. With that in mine. Thank you so much for spending two hours with me today recording these two podcasts. I think we gave the fans everything they could hope for. A reminder for you guys, the draft party at hard Rock Stadium, myself, John Ken, Jemmy Channing,

Crowder with you guys on night one. We're gonna have different guest Dolphins alumni people coming up to the stage. Tons of fun. You can stream now on YouTube as well as well as the Dolphins social channels. Plenty of

coverage coming your way from the Miami Dolphins. One of things on Draft night, we'll go ahead and close it up here Kyle with what you're working on, what Draft week looks like at t d N, promote the stuff man, and so while you're at the Dolphins draft party, if you wanna you know, hear what what my reaction is to the pics. We do have live coverage nights one, two, and three or for the NFL Draft, will be lie streaming a couple of different places, the Draft Network, social channels, UH,

the Lockdown Podcast Networks YouTube channel. Brinks dot tv is another place we're partnering with with them to provide coverage as well. So we'll have streaming all throughout the build up to the draft this week, uh like wired to wire throughout the day. It's gonna be a busy week, but that's this is our super Bowl, right, so we

we gotta bring it. Uh. And then obviously the streaming on the first three days, and then we'll be doing some draft class recaps in the immediate aftermath of the draft over the next couple of days after that to make sure fans of all thirty two teams and yours truly is right in the Dolphins one recapping the draft class, the prospects, how they fit, the pieces of the puzzle, why they made the decisions that they made. So it's gonna be really great. And you can find me Almo

social at Grinding the tape. You said it all, Kyle, here we are. Draft week is here, the good time, the best time of year in the off season before the game start, and you're gonna earn yourself a nice long vacation after this is all wrapped up, and and in August come back down for training camp. We'll do with Miami, right, sound good? That sounds great. I appreciate me, you have me, Travis, Thanks a lot. That was fantastic.

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