Offseason Preview Part 2

month away. And with that, we're going to continue our off season preview series, Part two, taking a look at tight ends and the offensive line. All of that and more on this Tuesday, February twenty three edition of the Drive Time Podcast. And first up, some news from late last week. Part of the Miami Dolphins Foundation, which funds something called the Miami Dolphins Food Relief Program, committed to spending one million dollars directly on local minority owned restaurants

before June one. This happened last summer and we're still roughly three months away from that gold date. Well, the Dolphins announced on Friday that that one million dollar goal has in fact been surpassed. So continuing to do great work here in the community and providing people in South Florida with meals since this COVID pandemic really became part of our life, so really proud to be a part of that. Really happy to announce that here and share

that with you on the podcast. And some more cool organizational news here as we found out um on Friday that our very own Jason Jenkins was named as one Black Men in Excellence by the Black Professionals Network for his corporate leader and community advocacy in the area of South Florida. So congrats once again Jason, and of course, as always, thank you for everything you've done for me

here with the Miami Dolphins. It's it's greatly appreciated and it's cool to see hard work and just a great guy be recognized like that, So again, congrats to Mr Jenkins. Now on the Friday podcast, I had talked to you guys about going out to a restaurant for the first time and who knows how long, and of course everybody else had the same idea that I did, as there was like an hour long wait at this restaurant, my favorite restaurant here in my hometown back in Washington State.

Went out with my brother who lives about forty five minutes the way, he drove up and we went out together, so a nice little family outing for the first time. My wife was was doing something on our own back at the house, so I got to spend some time with my brother over the weekend. And of course everybody else had the exact same idea we did to go to this restaurant, so we had to put in for a reservation, which was like an hour long, so we basically had to wait an hour out in the car

and just go find something to do. But we were so excited to get a chance to go out back in public and do that again. And they wound up seating us over in the bar section of this restaurant where nobody's there's no bar back there anymore, they don't actually have the bar service open, and they kind of like forgot about us, like they didn't come back by for twenty minutes after they sat us at first, and

they basically brought the food and didn't come back. And at one point the server had walked by and I asked for a thing of catch up because we had French fries with these these big burgers that we had, and I swear she heard me, but she walked by and ignored me. But still beyond all of that, I was so happy to be out and to go have a drink with my brother and get some some dinner. Was a lot of fun. Other than that, this weekend

watched again plenty of television. I found out that Boy Meets World is on Disney Plus, and that's a great find. You know, watch out with my daughter. She gets a kick out of just staring at the screen and watching

things move around. But it was funny because I was watching it with my wife and uh we saw like Mr Feeney and Mr Turner that the English teacher in the early episodes and even in the Matthews you know Mr Matthews, Corey's dad had like injured his back in an episode, and I was like, I find myself sympathizing with the parents now opposed to watching this as a child and being like what's going with Corey and and Sean? But now it's like, oh man, the you know, the

parents are the more sympathetic characters in that show. So that was my weekend. I know, not very much fun, but the big restaurant outing was my big thing. And then, like I talked about last week, the rest of the weekend, no football on, so not much to watch from that end, just the TV. I did watch the Heat beat the Lakers. That was a pretty fun game. We had that on our phone at the table actually at the restaurant watching that.

So go Heat and please hurry up and get here baseball season as well as the NFL off season, because I'm still a little bit bored. Alright, that was my weekend. Let's go ahead and get into it here and start with some league news. As we learned late last week that one of the teams in Miami's conference, the Indianapolis Colts, jumped off the quarterback carousel as it were. Carson Wentz goes from Philly to Indianapolis to replace the retired Philip Rivers.

And we have our second big trade of the off season already, of course, the Matthew Stafford, Jared goff Rams and Lions trade that was reported before the Super Bowl. So plenty of activity already going on. And there's a few ties to the Dolphins that I want to explore here with this in the idea of trades, But first

I just want to look knowledge at. The off season has always been a fun event for me as someone that follows the entire league with a very interested eye and has a strong feel for the roster of other teams, for instance, and the profiles of those players on the roster. Like I watch a lot of football and digest a lot of information, so I tend to have a good feel for what's going on outside of the Miami Dolphins.

And we talked on a podcast a week or two ago about the ability to utilize multiple avenues to improve the roster and how we saw that last year with the Dolphins draft class. Of course, all the free agents

that had a considerable impact on this team. I mean consider Byron Jones, Emmanuel Ogba, Kyle van Noi, Shack Lawson, all in their first year with the team, and they are part of a scoring defense that finishes sixth in the league in that category and really had a big improvement from nineteen and more on that and continuity here in just a moment. But in addition to the draft and free agency, like we've seen Miami use, they've also used the waiver wire to turn the roster to rEFInd

a piece like Zack Seeler on your defensive line. We've also seen them utilize the avenue that makes up the larger point here, the trade avenue, and for my money, the NFL offseason great as it already was over the last I don't know, four or five six years or so, where the league as a whole seems to have embraced the art of the trade and it has thrown this element of chaos into the roster building portion of the calendar, as I like to call it. And how much more

fun has that been as a football fan? I mean, free agency, the draft is great, but when you get random news on Tuesday about a trade, I mean, that's just that's timing spent on social media and go and comment on it and then get engaged in the conversation and they consider how it has an impact on your team around the league, it just makes a lot of fun, Like it's fun to watch other teams make deals, and it's certainly a lot of fun to watch how Chris

Career and company use their capital at their disposal to

improve this Dolphin's roster. A trade, for instance, like Lynn Bowden last September, the acquisition of the fourth or third round draft pick rather of the Raiders who comes over to Miami for some draft pick swaps, so that's my I suppose monologue on how an already great part of the NFL calendar has gotten even better in recent years, and the more focus point here what we might be looking at from a continuity standpoint this year across the league.

I think it was Adam Schefter who said he could see as many as eighteen teams with new starting quarterbacks from last season in the NFL this year. Now, this current Dolphins team is one that knows all about the acclamation period. Right. We've seen considerable roster overturned since Brian Flores arrived, and not just strictly specific to the top part of the roster with the first round draft picks,

the premium by free agents. I mean, take it from someone who wrote a daily news piece five days a week last August during training camp, when the Dolphins would scour the waiver wire and constantly turn that bottom part of the roster, and they'd eventually even bring guys back to in some insens is, like, for instance, Javarus Davis was signed in August, he was let go and then brought back, spent time on the practice squad, and now

he's here on a futures deal. The point is they've done the due due diligence on getting their guys on a lot of players, and that bottom part of the roster continues to overturn, and wouldn't you know it, this team found itself playing its best football as the season went along. Of course, we know now about the one

in three start. The defense allowed some of its higher point totals of the season in that first month, with thirty one points allowed to both Buffalo and Seattle, and they would go on to allow just thirty one points two more times over the next twelve games. So a

jurassic improvement that way by the defense. We saw the offense hit strides as experience kind of continued to accumulate there, like, for instance, Robert Hunt, we've talked about his six game finish to the season at that right tackle position, how he continued to grow and get better. Austin Jackson playing some of his best ball after getting back from that injury that knocked him out for a few games in

the middle of the season. So now, after plenty of work done to the roster, the five win improvement from nineteen while a lot of these rookies stacked up snap counts and a lesson with each and every one last season, Right, every snap counts a chance to learn a lesson and a play on tape to go back and look at. Now the Dolphins have an opportunity for some continuity, and of course with four picks in the top fifty and some more flexibility with the cap space and that kind

of thing. Of course there will be new players. But you get a chance to see Jackson, Hunt and Kinley now go into a training camp with experience. Like we talked about with field dates in the podcast. They know how to get to the building, how to get to the locker room, how to get to the cafeil like, they know their way around the building. It's not gonna be those first day of school. Like new habits you

have to form. They've got the routine down now, right, you get a chance to watch ray Kwon Davis continue the trajectory where he took off in the second half of the season. And I told you guys have been running back the tape here on this team in this in this season recently, we saw Lynn Bowden come from occasional active, sometimes inactive on game day, but when he was on the field, he'd get like a few snaps a target, maybe a carrier two here there, and that

was it. But by the end of the season he's playing fifty plus snaps and contributing to the passing game and the offense as a whole. We're gonna see Brandon Jones continue to have the game slow down for him, something he talked about throughout the course of the season. The third highest snaptaker at that safety position, with his studious nature that we've covered on this podcast on Miami Dolphins dot Com, that he's talked about himself at press

conferences and the like. You have to imagine that only continues, and that list goes on and on and on. The whole backfield currently is made up of guys going into year two or three. I mentioned Boden Net receiver. He's not the only second year player in that receiver room coming back, of course, Malcolm Perry and Kirk Merritt on

a futures contract. I mentioned the offensive line, and speaking of that, how about the work of Michael Dieter and what he did in limited action last year off the bench. I thought he played pretty damn well in that game. Another year of development for him. That's always gonna be a boon too, but Aito Jones on the defensive line got some time behind the big three you know, Wilkins, Seiler, and Davis we have covered here on this podcast, playing in place at times of the injured Devon god Shaw

Van Ginkl. We saw that year one to year to Jump, I mentioned Brandon Jones and of course no eg Bnogamy. Both those guys get valuable snaps last season as well.

So all these position groups, from quarterback, running back, receiver down to the defensive backs on that side of the football, all these position groups, there are resources to bolster those positions, but we should see a lot of continuity and reason to expect growth really early in each one of those positions, because again last year, so many of these guys were coming into their own and their first really experience here

in the NFL with the Miami Dolphins. So finally have some continuity at those positions in addition to the capitol to benefit and improve your roster. So in a year, we're probably gonna see some crazy quarterback movement and maybe similar madness at other positions as well. Here's to continuity from one as this roster continues to improve and get better under Chris career and Brian Flores and as I almost forget here, a footnote to the whole idea, the

impact of the draft. You know, the way the veteran quarterback market shakes out always shapes the way the draft takes hold. Right, it's going to change the way teams will approach their draft if you get a quarterback compared if you don't get a quarterback that you're happy with going into the season. And with a third pick this year, it's conceivable that when the Dolphins pick comes up, they could have the pick, the non quarterback pick of the

litter could be at their dispose. We've seen quarterbacks go one too in the draft a lot before, and then at that point, how much value does that pick have. It's it's all going to be connected, and it's all going to be fascinating, and it starts here very shortly. We are getting very very close to the start of

the new year. Alright, let's go ahead and get into the off season preview our second part here, and let's remind the folks out there that these are the opinions of yours truly and in no way reflect the team's opinion. Compeche on that, alright, so on Friday we did the quarterbacks, running backs, and wide receivers. If you missed that episode, go ahead and give us a quick pause. We'll wait for you. Listen to that episode, then come back and

finish up this pod. We're gonna get to the offensive line and tight ends here on part two, and let's go ahead and start with the ladder there, the tight ends and first our incumbents. Not one of them is targeted for free agency. So the whole gang is in toe right now with fourth years Mike Gatsicky and Durham Smith. They're both back, the recently extended Adam Shaheen after coming over this off season in a trade with the Chicago Bears. He is under contract after that extension, and Temple Tough

Chris Myrick entering his third season. He's here on a futures contract. And the consistency of this group is really to me what I found most pleasing. When Smith went down for a couple of games, Shahem was right there to pick it up and really fulfilled that role of the guy that kind of does the dirty work. Is

Durham so often hasn't his time here in Miami. And that's not to say Shaheen wasn't already doing that in games with Durham up and active and playing, but they found ways to get all three of the guys onto the field different times this year, some thirteen personnel packages. I even asked Coach Godsey, the Dolphins tight end coach, in about being able to utilize third team personnel and go empty from that group, in which they did a couple of times, and he just said that spoke to

the versatility of all three of those guys. Of course, plenty of twelve personnel and tons of good dig out blocks, second level blocks and chips from these guys. I really enjoyed watching their work in the running game this year.

And then of course there was Mike Gasicki and another year of really top end tight end production, so that five times fast in the passing game, and of course the room as a whole set franchise records and receptions and yards and tied the franchise mark with eleven touchdowns, one catches and one thousand sixty one yards. For good measure on those franchise marks, Gisicky chipped into those numbers a lot fifty three catches was twelve most among tight

ends in the NFL. His seven hundred and three yards were fourth most among all tight ends and his six

touchdowns were tenth best at the position. And as he goes along, he just gets better at the little things that make his game continue to grow and improve, like fighting through contact at all levels of the route and maintaining his balance, fighting through a podcast when you're Toddler was screaming downstairs, high pointing tough catches, getting more and more involved as a blocker, and making himself dual functionality

as all these tight ends are. So you've got the absolute weapon in gisicky, two stout blockers who can catch a pass in the flat and then run somebody over. We saw Adam Shaheen get nominated for angry Runs this season by Kyle Brandt on Good Morning Football. Not to mention big time special teams contributions, we've heard from Coach Crossman, Dolphins special teams coordinator, the challenges they have of replace seeing Durham Smith on special teams when he's not available.

And then of course Chris Myrick, he made his NFL debut this last season. A nice, well rounded tight end room there for the Dolphins. Now should should the Dolphins explore the market. What's out there? Glad you asked, Let's go ahead and start with Pro Football focuses list of their top one hundred and fifty free agents. Plenty of good tight ends on this list. Hunter Henry checks in first at number ten overall out of the Chargers tight end.

A great player who's missed a lot of games in his career, but it looked like he was back to his form with the Chargers after a c L tear. The first season off that big of an injury, sometimes takes some time to regroup and get back to the mental reps and the mental fortitude and the physical strengthening of that ligament, so he looked like he was back in full force. In John who Smith comes in at thirty two on the PFF Top one hundred and fifty

free agents. One of my favorite players in the league, man just I can't imagine such a good young player who's integral to that play action heavy attack they use their in Tennessee gets out the door guy average is six point eight yards of yak. Remember this is a tight end six and a half yards or six point eight yards rather after the catch on average. Gerald Everett

is next at forty nine. A move tight end, athletic guy that's average more than five yards per catch in his career with thirty broken tackles on one thirty catches. He's basically a broken tackle every I'm no mathematician, but what does that four and a quarter catches? Athletic and dangerous with a football in his hands. Grant comes in at sixty three. Of course, came out of retirement to be with his boy Tom down Tampa Bay. Signed that one year deal. We'll see where he winds up after

the Super Bowl run. Jared Cook number seventy nine on this list. This guy has produced a ton in this league, thirty four years old, but still getting it done in the NFL. Anthony Firks or another Titans tight end at one twelve checks in next he moved all over that Arthur Smith formation once again. You've got h backs, inline blockers, guys flexed out wide, making you know, different formations out

of similar personnel grouping. And he's big enough at two forty six to do some of that dirty work as well. So pass catcher well round the tight end there. Trey and also on this list. Dan Arland, also on this list, put a nice year with the Cardinals last year after coming over from the Saints. They round out a pretty solid group of potential free agents there on the Pro Football Focus Top one hundred and fifty free Agents one.

Then we look ahead to the draft in April, and I don't think it's hyperbolic to call Kyle Pitts the best tight end prospect since at least Vernon Davis. He moves like a gazelle. He can burn good good sec cornerbacks on double moves, cornerbacks sec on double moves with suddenness deception, and just great overall route running. He could

posterize anybody by winning with body position. He was a production machine at Florida and just an utter matchup nightmare for whichever defense is going to face him because of the ability to play all over the formation and just give mismatches to safety's corners, linebackers, you name it. And Pitts is going to be interesting in the sense that

he challenges conventional norms. Like you usually say, the tight end position isn't one that comes off the board early, right, But some folks think that he is just the best non quarterback in this class in general, and that's really saying something. But as we mentioned conventional norms, there's nothing conventional at all about this kid. A lot of draft pundits are using wide receivers as their camp for him. He's gonna play all over someone's formation and make tons

of plays in this league. He is the fourth ranked player on the Draft Networks big board. Up next among tight ends is Pat fire Muth friar Muth excuse me, who's thirty three on their big board. Another pass catching tight end, but he has the frame and mindset to really develop his ability as a blocker as well. At six ft five to fifty, he had a nice career at Penn State. Then Brevin Jordan is next for them at thirty six before a big drop in rankings on t d N and Kane's fans are familiar, you know.

They're twitched up, athletic mismatch who can hit the big home run ball down the field and make big plays after the catch, the type of guy you can put on the field and really seamlessly transition from personnel groupings because of his ability to threaten the defense once again from multiple alignments. So he's thirty six, Breven Jordan out of Miami and then at ninety one. The next tight end.

Their fourth tight end comes on their big Board rankings, Tommy Tremble out of Notre Dame, Hunter Long out of BC, Tray McKitty out of Georgia, and then Kenny yo Boa rounds out the tight ends and the top two hundred on the Draft Network. And that last name there, he

played in the Senior Bowl. Kenny Yoboa out of Old Miss. I'm intrigued by his game six ft four, two fifty pounds and wouldn't you know it, athletic as all get out, exceptional body control and he produced big time for an Old Miss offense and did a lot of that working in line as well as down in the red zone. So a classic f type tight end there from what he showed on tape. So that's the tight end position.

Let's go ahead and finish up the offense here on the offseason Preview, Part two of four parts here on the Drivetime podcast with me, your host, yours truly, Travis Wingfield. We're gonna finish up this with the offensive line before get to the defense later on down the line. Either this week or next week, we'll see what the podcast schedule looks like. But that's your tight end group. Let's go ahead and get inside to the beef the offensive

line in area. We saw sweeping changes on this roster last season, and let's go ahead and start with the incumbents and the scheduled free agents. There's three of them, all unrestricted, Julian Davenport, Adam Panky, and Ted Carriss. And Panky got some snaps and heavy personnel last season, as did Davenport, but he also filled in for Austin Jackson

when Jackson went down in that Seahawks game. And then Ted Carriss, who played every single snap this year for the Dolphins at center, and just one of my favorite interviews every time we got a chance to talk to him. Really nice and easy going guy, team captain for the Dolphins up front. He's scheduled to be an unrestricted free agent. As far as the guys under contract, the incumbents heading

in the one. We know about Austin Jackson, the third youngest player in the National Football League last year, and we know about his story by now about how he didn't have the off season his final season at USC and he worked together, you know, get his weight back, at his strength back, and we saw the athletic build

of Austin Jackson. I thought all year long with how quickly he gets into his past sets and how you can slide a protection away from him, because he does have that two way go type of responsibility where he's athletic enough and has the feet work the footwork it enough to handle a pass rusher threatening upfield coming back underneath where you don't have the inside help with the guard because you slide protection away to a possible blitz to the other side of the formation wherever it might be.

Jackson has that makeup, of course, is what made him. That skill set, is what made him the eighteenth pick in the draft last year. So I can't wait to watch him develop and just get better and better. Sam is this is the case with Solomon Kinley, who had eight games last year with a goose egg in the past protection department as far as pressures allowed on the quarterback, and we talked all season long about how he would punish dudes and play through the echo of the whistle.

Brandon Thorn, who did the podcast about a month ago, talked about punishing jumpers, how when a guy tries to jump up to back the ball down with the last scrimmage and affect your quarterbacks vision and passing lane. You put them on the ground, and Kinley did that routinely throughout the year. Fun tape to watch, and just a different built dude. He is so big and and gets that push in the run game and and can really

be just dense in the passing game as well. It's really excited about the future of Solomon Kinley, as I am about Robert Hunt, who was a punishing mover in the run game and the back half of the season. I was also impressed by his refinement and pass protection. You've got the first rep of his career at right tackle.

He played some heavy personnel, but his first actual pass set where he's not in there to go bowl somebody over at the line of scrimmage, he goes up against Eric Armstead and looks like a veteran handling a really long armed, strong, just dominant pass rusher there in Armstead.

So those three guys growing and developing together and the way they kind of work together in terms of they're all very big, They've got loose hips and loose feet that can really help them get the second level and make those second level blocks and and get that push in the running game too, should go a long way, as they developed with rookie quarterback to a tongue of by Lowa, all four of those guys in the same

class coming along together. Then we go to the veterans of the group and Eric Flowers, who prior to the injury, I thought he was one of the most consistent players along the offensive line all season long, played really good football people mover man. So many touchdown runs were off of his butt down those goal line shortyard and situations where the Dolphins would punch in over the goal line for six coming off that left guard spot with a

lead block by someone like Christian Wilkins or something. But you always had Flowers and they're turning guys out. He also was fun to watch on tape because he would bounce up and go pick up his running back downfield after a big play. So a lot of energy hometown kid fund to root for. Jesse Davis captain in every

sense of the word. Has played four positions and even cross trained this year at the fifth at center this past season, so that flexibility goes a long way, and he's been a reliable guy for this Dolphin's offensive line for a while, I mentioned Michael Dieter. He filled in in that Cincinnati game when injuries were just piling up. Flexible,

durable technician. With the notes I have on Deeter, then we've got four futures contracts with Tyler Gothier, Jonathan Hubbard, Dervall Kei, Rose, Nato, Cameron tom an interior offensive lineman who spent time with the Saints last season, and we talked about on a previous edition of the Drivetime podcast.

Here all the flexibility in those guys and their ability to play not just different positions, but different schemes are different, They're different skill sets, allow you to run a multiple scheme type of offense at takes advantage of the weekly matchup, right, That's something that Brian Flores is very big on. I think this group and of course we'll see what happens this offseason, but this group gives you a really good start as far as the ability to be flexible in

your game plans. But also it allows you to be flexible and how you address the roster where you can take maybe the best offensive lineman you want if you choose to do that, regardless of position, because that's the beauty, right, of having a bunch of flexible guys that can play guard tackle or guys that can play center guard, is you can move them around and fill out the roster as you see fit that way and continue to get the guys that are versible, can do multiple things and

play with those nasty main streaks on that offensive line. So the Pro Football Focus Top one hundred and fifty free agents ahead of the one off season, and first up on the offensive line list at the tackle position. As Trent Williams we know about that future Hall of Famer's career, Missen came back in and picked right up where he left off Taylor Moton out of Carolina the offensive tackle there for the Panthers. He is a really good scheme diverse, get some push in the running game,

works in the passing game as well. Number fourteen on the Pro Football Focus Top one hundred and fifty free agents list, and you'll see a theme here of guys that are into their mid thirties that continue to play well.

Like number thirty three Russell Okung. He's been getting it done forever, and that's just like a trend in the NFL nowadays, older tackles can play into their mid to late thirties, like Ala and Andre Villeneueva from Pittsburgh and PF Row, there's immense value in solid mid tier offensive lineman and that's exactly what Villaneueva has been throughout his career.

He's created between seventy four and eighty two, and each of his last five seasons he ranks in the fifty four percent time pf pass blocking grade and forty six percent tile and pass blocking grade on true pass sets during that time, so they like him as a good free agent value by Darryl Williams is next on their list. He went from Carolina to Buffalo under Sean McDermott, had

the best year of his career in twenty. Kelvin Beachum another example of a thirties tackle getting it done still today and then also in Pittsburgh, speaking of Villaneueva, Matt Feeler started for the Steelers last season and he can play either tackle position, so he has that swing tackle ability. And then Mike Remers, Cam Robinson, Cameron Fleming, and Tie and Secky round out the tackles on pffs top one

hundred and fifty free agent list. But this year's draft class is absolutely legit and a lot like the receiver position, where these last two years have just been absolute boons of talent and fluxed into the NFL. That's the same deal with the offensive tackle group. Man last year was a great, great class. This year's looks just as good. And let's go ahead and start with the tackles in the draft, and a lot like the tight ends were

all pretty much athletic freaks out there. These these tackles have such mean, finishing type of temperaments that I just love to watch. And it starts with Pine Suol out of Oregon. And this was a kid that was dominant his first day on campus as a true freshman. And he's still just twenty one years old, already six ft five three, well defined, just looks the part typewriter feet with you know, talked about the Austin Jackson ability to be athletic to get inside outside. This guy can do

that as well. He is of that just rare, rare, nasty streak, is about to finish plays. He's a rare offensive tackle prospect. He's number two on the Draft Network's overall big board, number nine on their boarders their second offensive tackle, Christian Derris, Saw out of Virginia Tech and again finishing. You watch this guy get out in space at votech just bullying people two people at a time, getting his hands on multiple guys and making an impact that way. And he also is pretty good in past

protection out there at left tackle as well. Rashawn Slater out of Northwestern number ten on their big board. He did not play this year like Piney Swool. Both of those guys opted out, but Daniel Jeremiah has Slater as his top offensive tackle in this year's class. He is really you know, that same, that same mold, like if you're gonna be top ten, you better be athletic and be able to move guys in the running game. That's the case for all three of these guys. Jalen Mayfield

out of Michigan. Haven't gotten around to watching his tape yet. He's number twenty one on td n's big board. Dylan rad On's out of North Dakota State. We heard Jim Naggy talk about him on the podcast. We saw him have a great week at the Senior Bowl. His North Dakota State tape is they played one game this year, but you go back to he's ridiculous man like. There's instances where he's blocking guys three or four gaps across the formation, not even that's not even hyperbola like. He's

doing it. He's taking guys from one hash mark to the other hash mark. He's getting it done in past protection, taking on, taking on two rushers at once with one hand on each guy like it's video game type of film. At North Dakota State. Jackson Carmen number thirty nine from Clemson. He's on this list. A massive, massive guy, six ft five five pounds, big wingspan. Liam Eichenberg out of Notre Dame.

Difference different type of build their six ft six three oh five, but he's one of the more technically refined tackles in this class. Had a great week at the Senior Bowl. Tevin Jenkins number forty seven out of Oklahoma State. I just watched him in the day. My goodness, you want to talk about a bully out there? This guy. We talked about Robert Hunt's tape last year, how he was throwing guys all over the football field routine lee

Tevin Jenkins as the exact same thing. Go check out his Texas tape against Joseph Assai, who was probably a first round draft pick at the edge spot. He had some great reps in that battle between those two guys. Go watch that tape. Speaking of Texas, Samuel Cozmi the tap. The tackle from Texas comes in at fifty one on their big board. He's he had a good, long career there at Texas. Same is true of Alex Leatherwood, number sixty one on their list. He played all four years

at Alabama. Walker Little from Stanford, Spencer Brown from Northern Iowa, six eight and a half three, fourteen pound Spencer Brown, he played at the Senior Bowls well, and that length was on display throughout the course of that week. So this tackle classes, it's good, It's got different flavors. You might like, it's deep. I won't go into the rest of this this list here because there are some players I think they have an impact, you know, Day three type of pick guys on this list. But go ahead

and check out the Draft network for yourself. Let's go ahead and move to the interior offensive line. We talked about the Dolphins incumbents on that group. Ted care scheduled to be a free agent, played every snap at center last season. Let's go ahead and look at the free

agents to be top one fifty on PFF. And we'll go ahead and finish up this part two offseason preview edition here of the Drivetime podcast with the interior offensive line, and we start with number nine, Brandon Schurf from Washington. He was a free agent heading into last offseason, but he got hit with the franchise tag and then just went out there and killed it once again, as he has done his whole career. The former number five pick in the draft has lived up to that building every

step of the way. And next on this list is another guy who was scheduled to hit free agency but got hit with the franchise tag before that could happen, and Joe Tuney out of New England. And both those guys, Sheriff and Tuney were bells of the ball last year, and that's kind of an idea of how free agency works in the NFL. This list looks great on paper right now, but it will get picked cleaned by franchise tags and extensions before we actually get to mid March.

But Joe Tuney, five years in the league, has never missed a snap. He's as good and as durable as they come now. The twenty six player on their list is our next offensive lineman interior, and that's a center and Corey Linsley from Green Bay. One of the top centers in the NFL, and he had perhaps his best season in PF credited him with just four pressures allowed on four hundred and thirty seven pass blocking attempts this season. Yet another homegrown offensive lineman there with the Packers, and

PF projects they do not let him leave. He's been a key part of that battery between he and Aaron Rodgers. The next interior offensive lineman is also a center and Patriots David Andrews. He checks in at sixty nine and it was just great to see him back on the field playing football again this year after missing the twenty

nineteen season with blood clots in his lungs. But Pro Football Focus says he has one of the lowest negatively graded play percentages in the league, so basically, you're not gonna have plays blown up by David Andrews on the interior. That's a great trade to have to develop that consistent

inside running game. Number seventy three on the list is a center, also, Austin Ryder from Kansas City, big year with the Chiefs last year, was not flagged and allowed just seven pressures all season at number eighties center Alex mac. You look in the dictionary, the NFL dictionary that is at zone scheme centers, and there's a picture in there of Alex Mack. He really hit his stride in that Shanahan Falcons offense for a number of years there. He

was with Shanahan and Cleveland as well. And even though he's entering his age thirty six season, this guy can still play football. And then there's Ted care checking in here. He allowed just eleven pressures for the Dolphins this season per Pro Football Focus. We finish up here with the interior offensive line draft class and the Draft Network's top rated interior offensive lineman played tackle in college and Elijah

Vera Tucker from USC. Now, people love his quickness, his ability to get out in space, his ability to kind of pop the hips and get leverage in the blocking game that way, a zone type of run blocking game that way, and he's a really really good player. Now Why at Davis out of Ohio State is next on their list at thirty one, and he is the opposite He's a maller a mean, guy's gonna mug you, run

you over, and just get consistent push. He's got NFL bloodlines, plenty of snaps, lots of experience, kind of a plug

and play type of guy. In Whyatt Davis and the same cod be said of number fifty eight on the list their third interior offensive lineman, It's Creed Humphrey out of Oklahoma, who there were so many times in that Oklahoma passing offense where he would like just have nothing else to do after the rep because he would lock out his guy so strong and so quickly that he didn't have any other work to do besides just stand

there and hold him off. So at times it looks like he's just kind of chilling there, but he's just getting the job done consistently in the passing game. Josh Meyers, Ohio State number seventy two, plays interior offensive line there as well, on the center position six ft five three twelve, another one of these four year stars there at Ohio State. At they just produced guys on that offensive line. Landon Dickerson rounds out the players in the top one hundred on the t D end list. He tore his a

c L at the end of the season. He had that great story where he got in the National Championship Game to to have a kneel down snap even though he had the torn a c l Just an absolute uses leadership out of Landon Dickerson. He was at the Senior Bowls bill of coaching guys up and doing things down there too. So Dickerson is a big time prospect. The next guy in the list is a player that I really kind of fell in love with his tape

back in twenty nineteen. Trey Smith out of Tennessee. He's number one oh seven here on t d n's big board. But man, he is a mountain of a man, three thirty one pounds six five and a half and he will absolutely blow guys off the football. So big powerful body there. They have a couple more guys here in the top two hundred with Drake Jackson. We talked about him the Senior Bowl. He had a really good Senior

Bowl week. You've also got Quinn Minors out of Wisconsin and Whitewater, who had a hell of a week at the Senior Bowl. Had the famous belly hanging out of his out of his jersey and just moving guys off the football. They showed a clip of him during the Senior Bowl. His off season training he does up in Canada where he's like chopping wood and and running around in the woods, just doing a bunch of high intensity stuff.

So he's a fun guy to watch. Deante Brown was also with the Senior Bowl, number one fifty two here on the t d N Big Board. He's a just a mountain of a human being, three hundred and sixty four pounds there out of Alabama. So check out the Draft Network, check out Pro Football Focus. Plenty of off season content for you guys out there in the ether.

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