Speaker 1: Looking pail clutchdown, miamis one drawn. We are on day
Speaker 1: two of one draft preview extravaganza with Kyle Crabs of
Speaker 1: the Draft Network, the managing editor for Dolphins Wire on
Speaker 1: USA Today, and the esteemed host of the Locked On
Speaker 1: Dolphins podcast. Kyle. Day number two here for us, we're
Speaker 1: gonna preview the second, third, fourth, fit, six, seventh round,
Speaker 1: the entire gamut here for the Miami Dolphins Draft. We're
Speaker 1: gonna close out with your seven round mock draft of
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. We're gonna talk about prototypes and much
Speaker 1: much more on this edition of Draft Time. First though, Kyle,
Speaker 1: welcome back in man. Thanks. Is that all we're covering
Speaker 1: today is just the whole darned thing? Huh? This is
Speaker 1: This is gonna be fun, man. This yesterday was fun.
Speaker 1: Today is gonna be even more fun. One of my
Speaker 1: favorite things the middle rounds of the money rounds. Chris
Speaker 1: Crews had some good successes there. This is good class
Speaker 1: for the always really get excited about an hour or
Speaker 1: two before the draft starts on Friday, because you get
Speaker 1: all that flurry of possible trade rumors, teams coming up
Speaker 1: to get their guy they think fell out of the
Speaker 1: first round that should have gone in the first round.
Speaker 1: Two rounds of drafting. It just doesn't get any better
Speaker 1: than this. We're gonna preview all of that, but first
Speaker 1: I would be remissed as my little girl just turned
Speaker 1: eleven months old at last week, will be a year
Speaker 1: here in May. It's it's gone by crazy fast. Kyle
Speaker 1: became a new father, a girl dad as well, shortly
Speaker 1: after I did. Kyle, how's it going for you? My
Speaker 1: little girl's tearing the house apart because she's running around
Speaker 1: right now. She learned how to walk quickly and then
Speaker 1: turned it into a run very quickly. How's how's dad
Speaker 1: life coming along for you? It's going great. It's it's
Speaker 1: a new something new every single day. And uh, she
Speaker 1: is just NonStop. And that's one of the things where
Speaker 1: I'm incredibly blessed with what I do to to work
Speaker 1: remotely and and be here for her every day. And
Speaker 1: it's just very quickly become my best friend, my little
Speaker 1: film buddy, and uh, the world's second and biggest Dolphins
Speaker 1: fan behind you. How's your crying increased way more? I noticed,
Speaker 1: I'm so much more emotional when it comes to her,
Speaker 1: Like my wife got me, this Father's Day book that's
Speaker 1: like me. It's like Caroline and Me is like the
Speaker 1: name of the book, and it's it's like a stock
Speaker 1: book where they kind of change out the names. That's
Speaker 1: all like you know, generic ad lib type of or
Speaker 1: mad libs type of book. But every time I walk
Speaker 1: into her room, I look at that book and I'd like, well, up,
Speaker 1: you have any of that going on. I would be
Speaker 1: lying if I said there haven't been a couple like
Speaker 1: animal rescue videos on Facebook or I'll tell you one.
Speaker 1: It's It was my daughter's baptism on Sunday, and my
Speaker 1: wife repurposed her wedding dress to create my daughter's dress
Speaker 1: for her baptism. And when I first saw the picture
Speaker 1: at the end of last week of my little girl
Speaker 1: wearing this tailored dress of my wife's wedding dress, that
Speaker 1: was one that definitely got me. Okay, let's regroup here,
Speaker 1: let's get it back together. Let's yeah, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to just go off of that topic because I can't
Speaker 1: handle it. I literally cannot handle this. Let's let's get
Speaker 1: back into the draft and talk about some more manly stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, we're man here, We beef Jerky we we
Speaker 1: we go on riverboat gambling trips. But I want to
Speaker 1: talk about the running back position to start this off
Speaker 1: because we're here at pick thirty six. If you didn't
Speaker 1: catch the Tuesday, I think episode of Draft Time here
Speaker 1: we talked about the first round, the off season so
Speaker 1: far to date. Plenty of good content in that podcast,
Speaker 1: and again, if you guys are not familiar, Kyle Crabs
Speaker 1: and Locked on Dolphins Podcast Daily does a great job
Speaker 1: with that over there, as well as writing a bunch
Speaker 1: of stories every single day for Dolphins Wire and of
Speaker 1: course the Draft Network where those guys are just kicking
Speaker 1: as this time of year, every single year and year round.
Speaker 1: But pick number thirty six, we talked about this on
Speaker 1: the pick portion of the previous podcast, how the running
Speaker 1: back position has changed as far as the way it's
Speaker 1: perceived across the NFL where it gets drafted, and we
Speaker 1: talked about this possible run at the beginning of round
Speaker 1: two with Jacksonville on the Jets. To me, that pick
Speaker 1: with the Jets has Travis E. T N written all
Speaker 1: over it. At pick thirty six, are we gonna get
Speaker 1: a crack at one of these top running backs? And
Speaker 1: if we do not is there anybody that makes sense
Speaker 1: at that spot at the running back position. So if
Speaker 1: none of the perceived top three, and that's generally the
Speaker 1: consensus as those the top three guys, if none of
Speaker 1: those guys make it, you probably need to regroup. You
Speaker 1: need to look at fifty and eighty one or decide,
Speaker 1: you know, do we need to manufacture some additional picks
Speaker 1: to find a better value. And the Dolphins did you know?
Speaker 1: This is one of my big issues with with the draft.
Speaker 1: Is there so much of a con perception of bad
Speaker 1: signings or bad trades or bad draft picks. But like
Speaker 1: the law of averages says, you're not gonna bad a thousand,
Speaker 1: it's impossible. So I thought the Dolphins last year they
Speaker 1: caught a lot of flak about how the running back
Speaker 1: run kind of caught them there in the second round
Speaker 1: when they had some of the chances at thirty or
Speaker 1: at thirty nine, But they still managed to go out
Speaker 1: and get a productive player during his time in San
Speaker 1: Francisco in matp Rita, who since moved on after the
Speaker 1: one year deal. And when you make the amount of
Speaker 1: volume of transactions that every NFL team makes on an
Speaker 1: annual basis, you're not going to bat a thousand, and
Speaker 1: I think that's one thing that I really appreciate that
Speaker 1: the Dolphins have done, is they've embraced the volume perspective
Speaker 1: of drafting, so that way you have more flexibility to
Speaker 1: kind of pivot and adjust. UM. So, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't think they should have any regrets for handling the
Speaker 1: room the way that they did, even if they didn't
Speaker 1: come out and get one of the top five rookie
Speaker 1: running backs from last year's class. So if it plays
Speaker 1: out that way and none of the top three perceived
Speaker 1: backs are there at thirty six, it's not time to
Speaker 1: pull the or push the panic button, or pull the
Speaker 1: rip cord or anything like like. There's gonna be opportunities,
Speaker 1: and Chris Grew will find them. He's shown through the
Speaker 1: first two years of unquestioned control of this team that
Speaker 1: he's going to have the ability to do that. But
Speaker 1: as far as will we see one of them, I
Speaker 1: feel better about it now that I did a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago. UM, as far as there were teams
Speaker 1: in the back half of the first round, a playoff contenders,
Speaker 1: super Bowl contenders, UM that I had had some conversations
Speaker 1: with that indicated that running back would be on their shortlist,
Speaker 1: and it's like, well, shoot, if we get one of
Speaker 1: these teams in the late twenties or in the thirties
Speaker 1: that drafts one of the running backs, then the numbers
Speaker 1: games starts to get a little scary for Miami. But
Speaker 1: the team that I had had that conversation about has
Speaker 1: made some transactions and added a running back to the
Speaker 1: roster and it seems as though they're gonna go a
Speaker 1: different directions, So that at least helps me feel a
Speaker 1: little bit more comfortable or confident. The wild card is Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: If they draft Trevor Lawrence and they want to get
Speaker 1: Travis c e t N. I know they got James
Speaker 1: Robinson and he was productive as a runner as an
Speaker 1: undrafted free agent, but good players shouldn't prevent you from
Speaker 1: drafting great players. And if Jacksonville thinks Travisy t is
Speaker 1: a great running back prospect and they want to have
Speaker 1: that backfield intact from Clemson, that may be curveball that
Speaker 1: could change things. As far as one of these three
Speaker 1: gets to Miami thirty six. Yeah, that's a good way
Speaker 1: to look at I didn't really consider that as an
Speaker 1: option because of James Robinson's breakout rookie season last year
Speaker 1: as a U d F. A a lot of fun
Speaker 1: to watch him, but hey, a two headed monster also
Speaker 1: helps you young quarterback there and Trevor Lawrence too, So
Speaker 1: we'll we'll find out what happens come draft night. And
Speaker 1: I really am curious to see what type of poll.
Speaker 1: You know, coach Eric Studisville has who has been up
Speaker 1: or not upgraded promoted from running backs coach and running
Speaker 1: game coordinator to co offensive coordinator. And you talked about
Speaker 1: on the previous podcast yesterday about him getting production out
Speaker 1: of Miles Gaskin in the seventh round, the addition of
Speaker 1: Matt Brita in the fifth round last season, and now
Speaker 1: we've got Malcolm Brown is a new addition here this
Speaker 1: season as well. I'll be very curious see what happens
Speaker 1: at that position. But as we move along here, you know,
Speaker 1: we talked about receivers a lot on the podcast yesterday,
Speaker 1: but the hitch just keep coming here Man Darius Tony,
Speaker 1: Ron Del Moore, Elijah Moore, Terrence Marshall, Diamy Brown, Like,
Speaker 1: who of these guys do you separate among? Or like
Speaker 1: who separates himself as the clear cut best option at
Speaker 1: this pick. How many guys do you think are and
Speaker 1: play at pick thirty six and just kind of give
Speaker 1: us your rundown on this. I guess second tier of
Speaker 1: receivers and and maybe it's just me, but I would
Speaker 1: put one of the guys that we have here at
Speaker 1: fifty and Mari Rodgers in the same bucket as these
Speaker 1: guys here that we have listed at thirty six, and
Speaker 1: and for some of them, maybe even in front of
Speaker 1: Terrence Marshall, is has some parallels to Davante Parker's games,
Speaker 1: so there's, you know, a clear model of that kind
Speaker 1: of player. But he's apparently been flagged for some medical
Speaker 1: stuff at the medical checks in Indianapolis that had some
Speaker 1: teams reportedly uh dinging him for medical stuff, and you
Speaker 1: may potentially see him slide where he was in conversation.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of wide receiver needy teams in the twenties,
Speaker 1: so potential late first round kind of guy. But if
Speaker 1: you ask me to pick one that I really like
Speaker 1: out of this group, it is Elijah Moore out of
Speaker 1: Old miss uh Explosive plays. That's gonna be the name
Speaker 1: of the game anytime we're talking about wide receivers and
Speaker 1: winning vertically down the field. And he's another speed guy
Speaker 1: with a lot of burner ability. He's similarly built to
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle. So if I'm gonna pound the table for
Speaker 1: jam Leen Waddle, there's no reason why size is gonna
Speaker 1: determine from pounding the table. As a later option for
Speaker 1: Elijah Moore and watching him in that lane kiff in
Speaker 1: offense was a lot of fun to see the ways
Speaker 1: that they got him involved, got him touching the football
Speaker 1: um and I think his release package off the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage against press coverage. I know that was one
Speaker 1: of the questions Travis that we talked about yesterday about
Speaker 1: jay Len Wattle. Uh, he's gonna put you in the
Speaker 1: blender at the line of scrimmage. And Kadarius Tony. To
Speaker 1: be fair to Candarius Tony, he went up to the
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl, he did the exact same thing. Uh. Those
Speaker 1: two guys have really really rare short area quickness. So
Speaker 1: for Miami, it's okay, do you want another big body
Speaker 1: guy to play outside? You have two really tall guys
Speaker 1: in Devonte Parker and Preston Williams. Do you want some
Speaker 1: of those speedy guys to compete with you, Keen Grant
Speaker 1: for those reps. Do you want some of those hybrid
Speaker 1: slot type guys like Glbert Wilson coming back from opting
Speaker 1: out and Limboden Jr. Who's probably going to be that
Speaker 1: kind of player with his style of play. So they've
Speaker 1: got a couple of different subsections of what this wide
Speaker 1: receiver room looks like. Elijah More would fit into that
Speaker 1: your Keen Graham bucket, just like Jane Watterle and Peter
Speaker 1: Scheger came on the podcast a couple of weeks back
Speaker 1: and talked about how he believes that can Darius Tony
Speaker 1: and Ron del Moore are not just picking or you know,
Speaker 1: positioning for that possible fourth receiver off the board. He
Speaker 1: thinks they might even be able to disrupt the top three,
Speaker 1: which I don't agree with, but, like you mentioned, never
Speaker 1: say never when it comes to the NFL draft. We
Speaker 1: have seen crazier things before the John Raw selection a
Speaker 1: few years ago. It was a big curveball in that draft.
Speaker 1: It happens every single year. Let's and I also want
Speaker 1: to go ahead and mention that I'm glad you mentioned
Speaker 1: Elijah More. I kind of gave you a thumbs up
Speaker 1: when you said that, because I continue to hear the
Speaker 1: exact same things about this guy, and the more I do,
Speaker 1: the more I think, I don't know if he's gonna
Speaker 1: be there at pick thirty six. So he's got a
Speaker 1: lot of buzz probably not being honest, probably not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's that's a bummer, because that's a good spot
Speaker 1: to get him if you can. But maybe we don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about that because it is a Jalen
Speaker 1: Wall or Kyle Pitts or whatever it might be in
Speaker 1: the top of the first round. Now, I think personally, Kyle,
Speaker 1: this is where the offensive line conversation really heats up
Speaker 1: for me because you start to introduce the interior, the
Speaker 1: interior of the offensive line with Landon Dickerson and Creed
Speaker 1: Humphrey and Dylan Raddins. Who's a tackle But maybe you
Speaker 1: can kick inside and maybe even Quinn minor two will
Speaker 1: come back to maybe in the second portion of this round, Um,
Speaker 1: Jalen Mayfield, Samuel cos Me. There's so many guys in
Speaker 1: this class that that might go off the board in
Speaker 1: this range. Who are the best fits? Is this a
Speaker 1: good time to take an interior offensive lineman. Just just
Speaker 1: talk about this offensive line class at pick thirty six
Speaker 1: to kick off the second round. Yeah, I think this
Speaker 1: is this is a really compelling group. And I think,
Speaker 1: again going back to what we've seen the Dolphins gravitate towards,
Speaker 1: I think the average weight of the ten guys that
Speaker 1: they've brought in since the start of the two thousand
Speaker 1: and twenty off season is three pounds. So like they
Speaker 1: like big dudes up front, and you've got a big
Speaker 1: dude in Landon Dickerson three thirty pounds owns for my money,
Speaker 1: He's he he's gonna give you the most appeal from Miami.
Speaker 1: Uh experience working with two of talking about loa experience
Speaker 1: in the style of offense that it seems like Miami
Speaker 1: wants to take some of and replicate, taking what to
Speaker 1: it did successful at Alabama and transplanting some of that over.
Speaker 1: Very active in communication on the line of scrimmage. Uh.
Speaker 1: And he's he fits the physical mold, but and the
Speaker 1: medicals are super scary with him as far as he's
Speaker 1: got a pretty extensive list of injury issues. UH that
Speaker 1: may cause him to slip a little bit. So much
Speaker 1: like Jalen Phillips the discussion that we had yesterday. If
Speaker 1: you're just evaluating him off of his fit and his
Speaker 1: style of play and his talents, Landon Dickerson is that dude,
Speaker 1: but from a medical perspective that may cause those dynamics
Speaker 1: to change. And Creed humphrey wrestling background is super apparent
Speaker 1: with him. I really like his ability to to work
Speaker 1: across face and kind of win gaps by reaching defensive players,
Speaker 1: and how well he uses his hands in close quarters. Uh,
Speaker 1: you'd be hard pressed to go wrong by drafting either
Speaker 1: one of those two, if you trust Landon Dickerson to
Speaker 1: stay healthy, or if you're gonna pick up Creed Humphrey
Speaker 1: and ask him to be that keystone piece in the middle.
Speaker 1: But I do think it's gonna be interesting to see
Speaker 1: how Miami chooses to flesh out the inside. They obviously
Speaker 1: invested so much in offensive tackle last year, and uh,
Speaker 1: they signed Eric Flowers and and Solomon Kinley was the
Speaker 1: mid round pick. And Okay, do you choose to not
Speaker 1: just address that spot? Do you choose to invest in
Speaker 1: inside the way that you invested in offensive tackles last year? Um?
Speaker 1: And if they do, this is probably the spot You're
Speaker 1: gonna have to get one of Dickerson or Humphrey, you
Speaker 1: elso're gonna have to come back to the board later. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And you had sent me a text awhile back about
Speaker 1: some workout metrics and the explosion that the tracts in
Speaker 1: comparison to this, the size of these guys, and how
Speaker 1: that kind of has been the Dolphins mold on the
Speaker 1: offensive line. And the other thing I would add to
Speaker 1: that is obviously a position of versatility because beef and
Speaker 1: and explosion explosiveness and and position verse futility have been
Speaker 1: definite prototypes on that offensive line. So I'll be curious
Speaker 1: to see how much they weigh that into the decision
Speaker 1: if they go in the offensive line in the second round.
Speaker 1: Another position that I think is very attractive here and
Speaker 1: at fifty is the possible edge spot, and it kind
Speaker 1: of has that, you know, maybe the weak part of
Speaker 1: the top of the class pushes some of these guys
Speaker 1: down into the thirty six, maybe even to the fifty range.
Speaker 1: And I had a hard time separating thirty six to fifty.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's only four teen picks apart, so it's
Speaker 1: not the easiest thing to do. But the guys I
Speaker 1: listened for you, Kyle Peyton, Turner, Greg Russo, uh Aziz, Larjolari,
Speaker 1: Joe try On, Jason O Way, and then Carlos Basham,
Speaker 1: who I can't. To me, I'm very confused by the
Speaker 1: perception of Carlos Basham. To me, he's a first round
Speaker 1: pick all day. I think that, especially for the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins and what he brings. He is almost Emmanuel Ogba
Speaker 1: light and the way he plays the game. But is
Speaker 1: that list of guys good? How many of those guys
Speaker 1: do you think I should bump down to fifty? And
Speaker 1: is this a possible spot for edge to come off
Speaker 1: the board for the Miami Dolphins. I would not be
Speaker 1: s prized if Gregor Rousseau out of this group is
Speaker 1: the guy that goes closest to fifty or is there
Speaker 1: at fifty. Um did not play in twenty. For some teams,
Speaker 1: that's gonna matter more than others. His pro day testing
Speaker 1: he was too sixty six. He had a really good
Speaker 1: tenure d split, but everything else he did was okay.
Speaker 1: You know, he didn't hurt himself. But he's one of
Speaker 1: those players where so much of his success at Miami
Speaker 1: in two thousand nineteen came on inside gaps and if
Speaker 1: you can get him up to two seventy eight to
Speaker 1: eighty five, I'm really excited about his potential as kind
Speaker 1: of that hybrid defensive lineman. But if you're gonna play
Speaker 1: him at to sixty five and ask him to rush
Speaker 1: off the edge, I think that developmental curve from him
Speaker 1: is significantly steeper than taking him and asked him to
Speaker 1: do what he want at in two thousand and nineteen
Speaker 1: is a red shirt freshman, but bash him. Yeah, late
Speaker 1: last week that the Twitter timeline was talking about Carlos
Speaker 1: Bashaim all day and how this guy is underappreciated and
Speaker 1: you mentioned immanuelg But my working calm for him, I
Speaker 1: had two names that came to mind. It was the
Speaker 1: Boise State evaluation of Curtis Weaver, who the Dolphins draft
Speaker 1: in the fifth round. And from an athletic profile perspective,
Speaker 1: I think Shack Lawson's like the most immediate comparison to
Speaker 1: the athletic profile that he presented. So those were two
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins right there. So he definitely fits the mold
Speaker 1: of what Miami has looked for and gravitated towards in
Speaker 1: the edge. Rushing group, and he's another one of those
Speaker 1: guys that dominates at the line of scrimmage, wins the
Speaker 1: point of attack. He's been very productive both in tackles
Speaker 1: for loss and in sack production finding the football. His
Speaker 1: sack ceiling or pass rush ceiling is not as high
Speaker 1: as Payton turn around of Houston. It's not as high
Speaker 1: as Joe Tronting out of Washington. It's not as high
Speaker 1: as Jason Oa at of Penn State. But Oha played
Speaker 1: this past year and didn't log a single sack, and
Speaker 1: you know his athletic profiles through the roof. But he's
Speaker 1: what we could We talked about with Quitt pay yesterday
Speaker 1: as far as developing into your past rush plan. Oh wait,
Speaker 1: you're almost him from square one. Uh so you might
Speaker 1: get to that point on the board and say, hey,
Speaker 1: we're at thirty six. We trust ourselves to develop players.
Speaker 1: The ceiling here is immeasurable. But I would probably stack
Speaker 1: him behind guys like Carlos Basham and Joe try On
Speaker 1: and even probably Peyton Turner, who is another really interesting name.
Speaker 1: He had a successful offseason campaign with what he did.
Speaker 1: Azizo Glari is the one for me that I'm a
Speaker 1: little lukewarm on as far as he played around to
Speaker 1: five to fifty um, he he would be more of
Speaker 1: the Van Ginkle type role for me personally based on
Speaker 1: how he wanted Georgia. But if you're drafting him and
Speaker 1: asking him to play and take those shack loss In
Speaker 1: type reps, um, I think they would probably go for
Speaker 1: a guy with a little bit more size, whether it's
Speaker 1: try On or bash him or Turner. And this this
Speaker 1: position group and the way you kind of went down
Speaker 1: that player by player, you know, not to say that
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here from a position where I get draft
Speaker 1: right every single year, every single pick. It's far from that.
Speaker 1: But I've just had so much difficulty this year figuring
Speaker 1: out which groupings of these players. And maybe it is
Speaker 1: the lack of evidence we have from this past scouting,
Speaker 1: you know, cycle that's causing that same problem for me,
Speaker 1: as I'm sure it is for many scouts and decision
Speaker 1: makers alike. But I just cannot figure out which direction
Speaker 1: you might go from here in the old. If this,
Speaker 1: then that tree the game that I love playing this
Speaker 1: time of year. Now. At the end of yesterday's podcast,
Speaker 1: I teased one of your favorite players in this draft
Speaker 1: to come up to the linebacker position here. And I've
Speaker 1: got two guys in this list. To me, one of
Speaker 1: them goes in the first round, the other one does not.
Speaker 1: The one that does not is your your guy, your
Speaker 1: bread and buddy, you're your dude. Jamon Davis is a
Speaker 1: player I'm talking about from Kentucky with the incredible testing time.
Speaker 1: And then Baron Browning who worked with Miami at the
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl and coach Camp and Ellie and there was
Speaker 1: a great segment with him coaching him up and hitting
Speaker 1: the bag and stacking and shedding and him yelling at him.
Speaker 1: Coach Camp is a great So talk about Baron Browning
Speaker 1: talking about Jamon Davis this linebacker spot, after all the
Speaker 1: additions we saw but Ardrick McKinney and Duke Riley and
Speaker 1: Bran Scarlett, is this position in play right here? And
Speaker 1: is it? Baron Browning? If anybody, I still think that
Speaker 1: Kyle van noy role needs to be occupied by somebody.
Speaker 1: And whether you're gonna trust Andrew Vin Kinkle to take
Speaker 1: that role totally, if you're gonna take trust him to
Speaker 1: take it partially and get somebody a little later in
Speaker 1: the draft to take it. I think that's up for debate.
Speaker 1: Jamon Davis to me projects a little bit more as
Speaker 1: a true like Mike Linebacker as far as his developmental ceiling,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna get drafted high. Like. The closer we
Speaker 1: get to the draft, the more and more confident I
Speaker 1: am he's not gonna be anywhere close to available at
Speaker 1: thirty six right he he will be gone based on
Speaker 1: the momentum in the trajectory of the narrative around Jamon
Speaker 1: Davis out of Kentucky. But length and pass skills and
Speaker 1: sideline to sideline speed is a great combination of things
Speaker 1: to have. It's not too dissimilar from Tremaine Edmonds out
Speaker 1: of Virginia Tech who got drafted sixteenth overall by the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills a couple of years ago. He's not as
Speaker 1: big as Tremaine Edmunds, but Edmonds was similar prototypical length,
Speaker 1: sideline to sideline speed. I would say Davis is smaller.
Speaker 1: He's probably also better in coverage than what Tremaine Emmons
Speaker 1: was coming out of Virginia Tech and he got drafted
Speaker 1: sixteenth overall, So that's kind of the ballpark. I think
Speaker 1: top twenty, top twenty five for Jamie Davis is where
Speaker 1: you're gonna hear him get his name called. But man,
Speaker 1: Baron Browning. I get so excited about his evaluation, and
Speaker 1: it really stems from the fact that he was recruited
Speaker 1: to House State to play outside linebacker, and then Luke
Speaker 1: Vickle left like three months after he or three weeks
Speaker 1: after he committed to Ohio State, and then they played
Speaker 1: him inside, and then this past year was the year
Speaker 1: that they finally moved Baron Browning back outside, and his
Speaker 1: tape this year was so much better, and it allowed
Speaker 1: him to get out of trying to process the entire
Speaker 1: offense and read all his keys and the ways that
Speaker 1: they used him as a guy who's six three two
Speaker 1: forty five pounds runs four five five as a pressure
Speaker 1: player off the second level, slash flexed out into the
Speaker 1: slot up on the line of scrimmage. His zone drops
Speaker 1: are textbook. One of the things that we did at
Speaker 1: td N this past years we had uh an NFL
Speaker 1: externship where we had two active players in the league
Speaker 1: who spent some time with their scouting department, and one
Speaker 1: of them uh Andrew Dowles, a linebacker for the New
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints, And I had a chance to watch Baron
Speaker 1: Browning tape with him, sit down and just were like
Speaker 1: jaws on the floor. We watched the Clemson game, in
Speaker 1: the Alabama game, the last two games that he played
Speaker 1: when he finally had a couple of games to kind
Speaker 1: of work his way back into Okay, I'm an outside linebacker,
Speaker 1: I'm not inside anymore. And he was textbook with his
Speaker 1: zone drops. And I think about where Miami struggled the most,
Speaker 1: and it was that middle of the field, countering those
Speaker 1: over routes, those deep crossers. Baron Browning has the ability
Speaker 1: to hit those landmarks, make an impact there, and also
Speaker 1: be an impact player in the pressure situation. So he's
Speaker 1: a really exciting player for me when you iron project.
Speaker 1: And then you also add on the layer that he
Speaker 1: was there at the Senior Bowl and the Dolphins had
Speaker 1: a chance to coach him for a week. There's some
Speaker 1: dots there that that if they like him, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be surprised at all if they chose to draft him
Speaker 1: and let him take some of that plate that's left
Speaker 1: behind by Kyle Van Noy's departure. You make a really
Speaker 1: compelling case, man, like I'm I'm over here, Like yeah,
Speaker 1: let's turn the card in right now. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and make that happen. And it kind of goes back
Speaker 1: to the conversation we had on the podcast yesterday about this.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins kind of doing things their own way in
Speaker 1: the front seven. And you've seen so many different formations
Speaker 1: from this group, whether it's a two four or three four,
Speaker 1: maybe even a one four. Sometimes they'll go ahead and
Speaker 1: toss out four linebackers with only one down lineman. They've
Speaker 1: done some crazy different packages up front, and I think
Speaker 1: Flores can never get enough linebackers in this defense. So
Speaker 1: I think it's certainly comes into play at that spot.
Speaker 1: If not earlier, you never know. And I want to
Speaker 1: go ahead and finish up Thisty s pick with our
Speaker 1: first talking about the defensive backs, because you know J. C. Horne,
Speaker 1: Patrick's or Tan are great players. I don't think they're
Speaker 1: gonna be there eighteen. I don't know if they're on
Speaker 1: the Dolphins radar at that spot because of the influx
Speaker 1: of defensive backs we have in that room. But at
Speaker 1: this spot, maybe there's some value. Maybe it's the three
Speaker 1: names I have and you can add to this. Kyle
Speaker 1: Asante Samuel Jr. For the fact that he can both
Speaker 1: play inside outside. Trayvon Marrig from TCU, the Rangi safety
Speaker 1: back there, and then Javon Holland, who is your kind
Speaker 1: of classic, you know, box safety type of guy. Are
Speaker 1: those three names you would go with? Who else would
Speaker 1: you add to that list? Is this a spot for
Speaker 1: defensive back? Possibly? Yeah, I think this is the right
Speaker 1: group of names to be talking about here in the
Speaker 1: early second round. Trevon Mary if he's there in the
Speaker 1: early second round, man, he's His ability to play in
Speaker 1: the high post and be the single high free safety
Speaker 1: is really exciting. And uh TCU Gary Patterson the head
Speaker 1: coach there, they play a really interesting style of defense
Speaker 1: in which they have three separate calls. They've they've got
Speaker 1: the box, they've got the front side, and they've got
Speaker 1: the backside. And the front side is the read side,
Speaker 1: and Travon marings most often playing into the field, so
Speaker 1: he's on the red side, and it's all pattern matching
Speaker 1: and sight adjustments and making your reads as far as
Speaker 1: what you're druging. So it's a very cerebral style of
Speaker 1: of playing in coverage and it's not just Okay, we're
Speaker 1: gonna play in twenty yards deep and trust his sideline
Speaker 1: to sideline ability and no he I mean he's cutting
Speaker 1: cross routes over the middle of the field, he's jumping
Speaker 1: down to the catch point. He's getting down in the
Speaker 1: run fits. And that was one of my favorite things
Speaker 1: about listening to Eric Row in the preseason last year's
Speaker 1: talking about, Uh, the biggest devolution for me and changing
Speaker 1: from corner to safety is getting acclimated with what the
Speaker 1: run fits are and understanding what my gap responsibilities are
Speaker 1: and like all of those things matter and for to
Speaker 1: have a cerebral player who you know in this Brian
Speaker 1: Flores defense, He's talked about communication being one of the
Speaker 1: primary variables that is important to them on the back
Speaker 1: end of the defense. I think Trevon Rorick has the
Speaker 1: ability to do that. Uh. Javon Holland's surprised with his
Speaker 1: athletic profile. Uh. He's done a little bit of everything
Speaker 1: in Oregon. But the anticipation when you Ashton play was
Speaker 1: athletically he might not be a top shelf athlete. Well,
Speaker 1: he made the most of his time off he opted
Speaker 1: out of and he tested really really well, like way
Speaker 1: better than everybody's expectations are. So I think he's pushed
Speaker 1: himself probably up in the top fifty conversation. So if
Speaker 1: you want a guy who can do it all, I'll
Speaker 1: be interested to see just how much Miami wants to
Speaker 1: put on Brandon Jones's plate. Obviously him is a mid
Speaker 1: round pick, third round pick in last year's draft, and
Speaker 1: not on the field a good bit and made some
Speaker 1: really nice flashes for the team. Um, they're gonna go
Speaker 1: with some sub Is he gonna be the third safety
Speaker 1: de facto? They're looking for competition? Um that those are
Speaker 1: questions that only the Dolphins are gonna be able to answer.
Speaker 1: But that would be the type of role I would
Speaker 1: envision for Javon Holland. I'll go with a not so
Speaker 1: humble bragg here and just say you're welcome for getting
Speaker 1: questions like that to Eric Rowe when those guys come
Speaker 1: up to the media. We've we've been looking for those
Speaker 1: questions for a while. I'm happy to be the one
Speaker 1: that can deliver him for you in those press conferences. Uh, Kyle,
Speaker 1: we've we've taken had a been a time here for
Speaker 1: the first three picks. Let's go ahead and pick it
Speaker 1: right back up at pick number fifty. Kyle crabs, the
Speaker 1: Draft network locked on Dolphins USA today, Dolphins Wire, And
Speaker 1: let's just go ahead and go through a few of
Speaker 1: these positions. Real quick running back spot, I've got Michael Carter.
Speaker 1: Does anybody else belong in that position? To you? Probably not? Uh,
Speaker 1: And I'm not even sure Michael Carter, with what his
Speaker 1: strengths and weaknesses are, is going to be a player
Speaker 1: that he feels pretty redundant to what you have in
Speaker 1: Miles Gaskin at this point. Um So, I don't think
Speaker 1: running back fifty would be the spot that they would
Speaker 1: make a play in that if they were to miss
Speaker 1: the first wave of guys. Perfect look at you hitting
Speaker 1: the quick moniker right away to the receiver position. You
Speaker 1: talked about Amari Rodgers coming in this bucket right here,
Speaker 1: and I am inclined to agree. I just think he's
Speaker 1: one of those guys you watch on tape and you
Speaker 1: say that guy is gonna be a good football player
Speaker 1: wherever he goes. To me, he looks like one of
Speaker 1: those guys that goes to a high powered passing offense
Speaker 1: and just catches like eighty balls his rookie year. Does
Speaker 1: he fall into this spot? I know you mentioned him
Speaker 1: at picked number thirty six, and then I've also got
Speaker 1: Le's see amand Ross st Brown, um Dwayne es Gridge
Speaker 1: in the spot as well. Who else do you like
Speaker 1: in this spot at the receiver position? Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that you you may see Rondale Moore here to who
Speaker 1: we talked about at thirty six, just because of the
Speaker 1: injury issues. He had a hamstring issue in two thousand
Speaker 1: and uh nineteen. I think it cost him eight games,
Speaker 1: and then he came back this year and missed the
Speaker 1: first half of an abbreviated season with lomhole what was
Speaker 1: a hamstring issue. So, uh, it's anytime you get those small,
Speaker 1: speedy they're like exotic race cars right where they got
Speaker 1: to be finely tuned and if something's just a little off,
Speaker 1: it really impacts their games. So Rondale Moore endurability may
Speaker 1: drop him into this conversation. But Amari Rodgers, built like
Speaker 1: a running back five ten, two hundred eleven pounds, had
Speaker 1: a chance. I went down to the House of Athlete
Speaker 1: combine that was put on by Brandon Marshall and he
Speaker 1: was one of the guys that was there, and it's like,
Speaker 1: that's a wide receiver, no way like he's slapped together
Speaker 1: really well. So when you think about his style of play,
Speaker 1: Guey who runs a lot of bubbles, the working traffic
Speaker 1: in the shallow areas of the field, and then he
Speaker 1: he was able to attack down the field and bounce
Speaker 1: back and got his explosiveness back after playing in two
Speaker 1: thousand and nineteen. I think he tore tore up his
Speaker 1: knee in in March and played the whole season, but
Speaker 1: you could tell he wasn't explosive. He's got that explosiveness
Speaker 1: back now, so I think his style of play. Remember,
Speaker 1: Tony Elliott was reported to be on the list of
Speaker 1: candidates potentially Miami was interested in interviewing for their offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator vacancy. Uh So if that is true, then that
Speaker 1: would be a player that you think they would like
Speaker 1: some of what they saw if they liked what the
Speaker 1: offense looked like. So uh, Amari Rodgers is definitely my
Speaker 1: favorite out of this group. H Skridge at the Senior
Speaker 1: Bowl was another one of those guys who just put
Speaker 1: guys in a blender and run runs confirmed four three
Speaker 1: with laser time. The concern with him as he was
Speaker 1: originally a defensive player and then transitioned over the offensive
Speaker 1: side of the all, he's a little bit of an
Speaker 1: older prospect. If that's something that's gonna, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: deter you from drafting. Uh, he's a little bit more
Speaker 1: physically mature. But coming from Western Michigan and having to
Speaker 1: transition from the defensive side of the football, Uh, that
Speaker 1: may cause for a little bit steeper transition to the
Speaker 1: offensive side of the game. In the prolo pretty rare
Speaker 1: to see a defensive bat go over to receiver. It
Speaker 1: goes against the old adage, right like, oh, he can't
Speaker 1: catch the ball, put him on defense. But he did
Speaker 1: the opposite, and like you mentioned, he really shined at
Speaker 1: that Senior Bowls. I'll be curious to where he goes
Speaker 1: off the board. And speaking of guys that change positions,
Speaker 1: you know, I mentioned him at thirty six, but going
Speaker 1: to the offensive line. Now, Miami got their hands on
Speaker 1: Quinn Minors out of Wisconsin Whitewater, and this guy has
Speaker 1: become a Norse god of sorts, a mythical legend in
Speaker 1: the draft process and the draft run up. And he
Speaker 1: was a guy that kicked inside and played center at
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl. I know you love this guy, talk
Speaker 1: about him. I've also got Tray Smith right here? Is
Speaker 1: this too high for him? With his medical and also
Speaker 1: Alex Leatherwood the tackle, so I really went tackle center
Speaker 1: guard at the spot? Who do you like? What do
Speaker 1: you think? I think Tray Smith is this is probably
Speaker 1: a little premature for him. Um, you feel for him.
Speaker 1: He missed some time with the blood clouds issues and
Speaker 1: uh then Tennessee played him at left tackle for a bit.
Speaker 1: But Tennessee is a program that has consistently had issues
Speaker 1: with developing talent. I would say Tray Smith right now
Speaker 1: is the same caliber of a player that he was
Speaker 1: when he showed up as a freshman phenom at Tennessee.
Speaker 1: So hasn't had the opportunity to develop his game quite
Speaker 1: to the degree in which he might like. So that's
Speaker 1: kind of a cause for question. At the very least,
Speaker 1: Alex Leatherwood will probably be gone by here at fifties.
Speaker 1: He's got experienced playing both guard and tackle. Uh, so
Speaker 1: that versatility will move the needle. And then he showed
Speaker 1: up at the Bama Prota like three twelve and jumped
Speaker 1: in like the percentile and the standing broad jumps. So
Speaker 1: there's some explosiveness there. And I don't think he played
Speaker 1: at three twelve, but he got down to three twelve,
Speaker 1: and that's a great testament to how dynamic he is
Speaker 1: in linear situations, which is what any fit for him
Speaker 1: is going to be best or asked him to do,
Speaker 1: which is play vertical and get off the line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage and move bodies. But I think he's a he'd
Speaker 1: be a great fit for the Dolphins. Is just a
Speaker 1: question of would he be there, and if he's there
Speaker 1: at fifty and you haven't taken an offensive lineman yet, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it's He played right guard and left tackle, so
Speaker 1: you know, at the very least he's gonna be able
Speaker 1: to play on both sides the line of scrimmage, inside
Speaker 1: and outside. Quinn Miners. There's a connection here with Wisconsin Whitewater.
Speaker 1: He shares an album matter with a very significant member
Speaker 1: of the Dolphins coaching staff, Eric Stoodisville. Uh, also from
Speaker 1: Wisconsin Whitewater. There's the Senior Bowl connection. Uh. He is
Speaker 1: three pounds is an into your offensive lineman. We've talked
Speaker 1: about how the Dolphins like big players up front, So
Speaker 1: I think there's a number of dots to connect here
Speaker 1: where if they enjoyed that experience coaching him at the
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl. It might help with the sales pitch to
Speaker 1: make that decision despite the fact that he played at
Speaker 1: a small school in Wisconsin, Whitewater, because they worked hands
Speaker 1: on with him all week ago. Yeah, it's I'm in.
Speaker 1: I'm in on that guy. He's He's how much fun
Speaker 1: to watch the videos of him chopping down trees up
Speaker 1: in Canada. It's just it's so fitting and so perfect
Speaker 1: for an offensive lineman. You talk about the wrestling background
Speaker 1: of Creed Humphrey, this just goes hand in hand with
Speaker 1: offensive line to just guys that are burly and got
Speaker 1: the big gut hanging out. I love watching him play
Speaker 1: a ball in that sense. Now we gotta pick us up, Kyle.
Speaker 1: We're kind of we're taking a long time on this,
Speaker 1: but I'll go ahead and group together the entire front
Speaker 1: seven at the spot I listed Levi on Moozoiki out
Speaker 1: of Washington, nailed the pronunciation. There um a couple of
Speaker 1: guys at the edge spot as well. I think kind
Speaker 1: of some follow some some trickle down from that thirty
Speaker 1: six spot. I don't have anybody at linebacker. What do
Speaker 1: you think at the front seven at this spot? So
Speaker 1: on mozoique Is is a guy who really helped himself
Speaker 1: with the Senior Bowl as well. He showed up on
Speaker 1: the first day and he was a player you didn't
Speaker 1: get a chance to see and uh, he was phenomenal
Speaker 1: in the first day as a penetration type player. Um,
Speaker 1: what I look at in the front seven, it's any
Speaker 1: of those leftover guys at edge that might be there. Uh,
Speaker 1: that is kind of the sweet spot for I feel
Speaker 1: really good about the value of getting any one of
Speaker 1: those guys. I think Peyton Turner is probably gonna be gone,
Speaker 1: Carlos Basham is a fair chance to get there. It
Speaker 1: sounds like Joe Tryon is gonna have a big um
Speaker 1: group of teams that are liking him. So it's Gregory Russo,
Speaker 1: Peyton Turner, I think, are Carlos Bashim Um are some
Speaker 1: of your reasonable names to look for here. And if
Speaker 1: you haven't taken an edge group, those are all traitsy
Speaker 1: guys in different ways. Um. I think they all have
Speaker 1: appeal for Miami, and that's obviously why they're on the
Speaker 1: shortlist to talk about, because they stylistically fit what the
Speaker 1: Dolphins are looking to do. So I have a hard
Speaker 1: time seeing a top fifty pick, and I'm sure Miami
Speaker 1: will go a different direction and prove me wrong here,
Speaker 1: but I have a hard time with the top fifty
Speaker 1: pick on an interior defensive lineman, just with how much
Speaker 1: depth they have in that group right now. And we
Speaker 1: move on here to the eighty first pick in the draft.
Speaker 1: The third round gonna be a bit of a weight
Speaker 1: there from round two to round three, and then we
Speaker 1: have a long way from round three to round five
Speaker 1: where we pick once in the fifth round, twice in
Speaker 1: the seventh round, and we'll go ahead and speed through
Speaker 1: the day three picks and some of your favorite names.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna kind of rely on you for that, Kyle,
Speaker 1: because this year it's been a little bit harder to
Speaker 1: get the information on those guys, and you guys do
Speaker 1: a great job of rounding out the entire draft all
Speaker 1: seven rounds, So we'll lead on you for that. But
Speaker 1: at pick number eighty one, the running back spot, again
Speaker 1: you mentioned Michael Carter maybe comes back into play at
Speaker 1: this spot. I put down Trey Sermon out of Ohio State,
Speaker 1: Kenneth Gainwell from Memphis, and Jared Jefferson there as well.
Speaker 1: So who do you like in that group. Is this
Speaker 1: a spot where maybe the Dolphins go running back if
Speaker 1: they miss on one of the big three. Tray Sermon
Speaker 1: is the guy, as far as I'm concerned to really
Speaker 1: look for as an early down runner who's physical between
Speaker 1: the tackles. I played around two fifteen pounds. They ran
Speaker 1: a ton of inside zone there at Ohio State. You
Speaker 1: look at that offensive line with why David sit right
Speaker 1: guard and Josh Meyers at center, and those are big
Speaker 1: body guys. And Miami ran a lot of split flow
Speaker 1: zone and in ide zone this past year, and um
Speaker 1: Sermon really really picked it up. He transferred from Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: But then he comes out and starting the Michigan State game.
Speaker 1: It's a three game stretch in the second half of
Speaker 1: the season for how State. He was hurting the National
Speaker 1: Championship game, but Michigan State, Northwestern and Clemson he put
Speaker 1: up like seven ud rush yards in three games. It
Speaker 1: was like unbelievable, and it was just he got a
Speaker 1: lot of help from his offensive line, but he was
Speaker 1: running with confidence again and uh running inside zone between
Speaker 1: the tackles, kind of showing patients when he needed to
Speaker 1: put his foot on the gas pedal when he needed
Speaker 1: to that's the guy running back from me. If you
Speaker 1: miss on one of the big three guys, let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and group the offensive line with the edge position
Speaker 1: here and kind of talk about that. In totality, I
Speaker 1: put down Jackson Carmen from Clemson, Spencer Brown and Ellerson Smith,
Speaker 1: both from Northern Iowa at the spot. Now I know
Speaker 1: both of Northern Iowa guys blew up their pro days
Speaker 1: and their workouts. Jackson Carmen a big do This had
Speaker 1: plenty of games there for a very good Clemson team.
Speaker 1: Who do you like in the trenches? Possibly in the
Speaker 1: third round? So this is this is a bit of
Speaker 1: a dead zone as far as I'm concerned with valuation
Speaker 1: and ideal value versus the merits of the players. I
Speaker 1: would be remissed to not mention Josh Meyers, the center
Speaker 1: from Ohio State. I'd also be remissed to not mention
Speaker 1: Ben Cleveland, another interior offensive lineman from the University of Georgia.
Speaker 1: You want to talk about big offensive lineman, This dude's
Speaker 1: built like the Mountain from Game of Thrones. He's three
Speaker 1: four pounds like he is a monster at right guard.
Speaker 1: Uh So, Miami obviously, Solomon Kinley they like that size
Speaker 1: there on the inside. I think both of those guys
Speaker 1: as a third round options maybe a little rich, uh,
Speaker 1: but like I said, it's it's kind of a dead
Speaker 1: zone there. I really like your call out for Ellerson
Speaker 1: Smith as a tools he developmental guy, and I think
Speaker 1: there's a couple of other options here to Genarius Robinson
Speaker 1: from Florida State was another guy that was down at
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl six five, two sixties six. He is
Speaker 1: a prototypical, first off the bus kind of player where
Speaker 1: he's gonna intimity the other team when they see him
Speaker 1: and say, okay, like this is what we're up against today.
Speaker 1: He looks the part. Now. Unfortunately, his development was stunted.
Speaker 1: Much like we talked about with Tray Smith and Tennessee,
Speaker 1: Florida State has really struggled with player development. I thought
Speaker 1: the light bulb came on for him a little bit
Speaker 1: in the first year with the new coaching staff, but
Speaker 1: his ability and consistency in creating pressure and penetration place
Speaker 1: is not where you'd like it to be. So uh,
Speaker 1: you're drafting him, they're based on traits if that's where
Speaker 1: you're going to choose to covet Genarious Robins, and this
Speaker 1: is where we kind of introduced the defensive back position
Speaker 1: really in earnest for the first time as far as
Speaker 1: the depth of the of the group, and maybe these
Speaker 1: guys go up a little bit higher. But I've got
Speaker 1: my personal favorite and Tyree Gillispia that that Alabama tape
Speaker 1: alone put him like as a Day two pick for me.
Speaker 1: Right off the bat. You don't stand up Nag Harris
Speaker 1: at the goal line and then chase down Jalen Waddles
Speaker 1: on an end around and not catch my attention. Jamar
Speaker 1: Johnson from Indiana had a hell of a game against
Speaker 1: Ohio State and really was a big reason why that
Speaker 1: was a contest lay into that game. Richie Grant seems
Speaker 1: to have everybody's eye from UCF after his incredible Senior
Speaker 1: Bowl week. Paulson Adibo, a guy that was a possible
Speaker 1: first round pick last year who came back and now
Speaker 1: has kind of fallen into the second day maybe third
Speaker 1: day idea. Elijah Molden I'm gonna butcher the safety from
Speaker 1: Florida State. And Nazarel Dean his last name Hampsa I
Speaker 1: believe is his first name. Um is this is this
Speaker 1: the spot where maybe defensive back starts to come into
Speaker 1: the conversation and do you like any of those guys
Speaker 1: in particular? Yeah, I think there's some some really interesting
Speaker 1: hybrid type players. And you mentioned Elijah Molden who played
Speaker 1: some deep safety, but for being honest, season Nicol at
Speaker 1: the next level and and obviously the Dolphins have brought
Speaker 1: in some competition to go against Nick need Hum with
Speaker 1: the decision to sign Justin Coleman in free agency. So
Speaker 1: if you're gonna be a competition based group, Um, Elijah
Speaker 1: Molten in the slot would be a lot of fun. Uh.
Speaker 1: He is a super smart football player. I think his
Speaker 1: cerebral style of play would would really be attractive to Miami. Uh. Um.
Speaker 1: I look at if you're looking for a hybrid safety,
Speaker 1: I'll do you one better from Hanson Asladin and I'll
Speaker 1: give you Divine Diablo from Virginia Tech, who is six
Speaker 1: ft three, two six pounds, a very good tester as
Speaker 1: far as his pre draft process. He's got a lot
Speaker 1: of range. And you think about hybrid safeties and what
Speaker 1: their appeal is, and it's okay, can he get into
Speaker 1: the slot, And that's not necessarily where he wins. He's
Speaker 1: more of that added safety. That's that's gonna kind of
Speaker 1: be the scrape defender and run fits when you're in
Speaker 1: those conflicts with two tight ends on the field. Like
Speaker 1: we talked about on yesterday's show about what the appeal
Speaker 1: of bring Kyle pits into the phrase it gives you
Speaker 1: those personnel conflicts. I think he can be a player
Speaker 1: who can develop with time into that. But Jamar Johnson
Speaker 1: from Indiana is the best name that you mentioned in
Speaker 1: this group. Uh, he can play in the slot, play
Speaker 1: man a man. He's got really good ball skills, he's physical,
Speaker 1: He's played split half field coverage and had success doing that.
Speaker 1: Go watch him flip his hips and open against a
Speaker 1: vertical route and in the honey hole against Cover two
Speaker 1: against Michigan, and watch him blow that receiver up on
Speaker 1: the sideline. Like he can do a lot of things
Speaker 1: on the back end. So that's the exciting player for
Speaker 1: me in this group. Let's go ahead and speed round
Speaker 1: this thing to close it out before we get to
Speaker 1: your seven round mock draft. I do want to hear
Speaker 1: you go over who you're picking in this class if
Speaker 1: you've gotten that ready for me, Kyle. But let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and day three. We know the Dolphins have a
Speaker 1: fifth round pick in two seventh round picks. We'll see
Speaker 1: if that's sticks, if they actually stay in those spots
Speaker 1: and make those picks. Let's go a position by position
Speaker 1: and just a few words on a player you like.
Speaker 1: I'll go ahead and start because I don't want you
Speaker 1: to take my running back from me. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with Kylan Hill right here. This was a very productive
Speaker 1: player before Mike Leach got there and winds up opting out.
Speaker 1: I thought Mike Leach arriving there was going to open
Speaker 1: up his passing game prowess or or unlock the ability
Speaker 1: of showcase that he can do it in the passing game.
Speaker 1: Didn't quite happen for him this year. But Kylan Hills
Speaker 1: my guy on Day three at running back. Who's yours? Well,
Speaker 1: let's be fair. He caught eight passes in the opening
Speaker 1: game against Ellis you before he opted out for the season,
Speaker 1: so you weren't wrong. He got those catches in and active.
Speaker 1: I got two backs. Romandre Stevenson from Oklahoma two twenty
Speaker 1: seven pounds. He's another physical guy, but the one that
Speaker 1: that's kind of the gem that I would love to
Speaker 1: see Miami get a crack on on Day three if
Speaker 1: they needed to. Is Chris Evans from Michigan. Uh. He
Speaker 1: was academically ineligible in two thousand and nineteen, came back
Speaker 1: this past year, only had a handful of carries. I
Speaker 1: think it was under twenty carries of the football. I
Speaker 1: thin get twenty five touches on the season, um, but
Speaker 1: eleven to sixteen. Uh. He had phenomenal testing numbers at
Speaker 1: the Michigan Pro Day. UH every test like plus forty
Speaker 1: inches in the vert Uh. He was in the four
Speaker 1: fours for his forty yard dash time he was four
Speaker 1: four four. His agilities he ran like a six eight
Speaker 1: three condre, so like for a bigger back. He checked
Speaker 1: a lot of athletic boxes. And he's got low tread
Speaker 1: on the tires because he was ineligible in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: and he played a very brievity role this past year.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of the shot in the dark Day
Speaker 1: three back that I like, and Flow spoke glowingly about
Speaker 1: him at the Senior Bowl as well too. So some
Speaker 1: good company there. I'll let you go ahead and kick
Speaker 1: us off at receiver. Thanks Travis. I appreciate that opportunity
Speaker 1: to give a little love to my guy Emir Smith
Speaker 1: March set from the University of Iowa six six former
Speaker 1: track background, And I'll tell you what, man, he won
Speaker 1: a lot more than he got the football at Iowa.
Speaker 1: That the quarterback play and there at Iowa. If you
Speaker 1: get the all twenty two, you're biting your tongue of times.
Speaker 1: Man like man put the ball on him. He had
Speaker 1: opportunities down the field game in and game out. He had.
Speaker 1: He did have a d u i uh this past
Speaker 1: fall and his season ended. He did a front flip
Speaker 1: into the end zone to celebrate and injured. Had a
Speaker 1: lower body injury that stemmed from that, and it unfortunately
Speaker 1: ended his season prematurely. So there's some things there that
Speaker 1: I think are going to contribute to him probably being
Speaker 1: available on day three. It's just a question if if
Speaker 1: Miami doesn't get any additional picks, does he get all
Speaker 1: the way there? To you, I think that pick is
Speaker 1: at one six, that's the question. I'm gonna go ahead
Speaker 1: and take a guy who you know first of all
Speaker 1: your Iowa passing game Comma as evergreen by the way,
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna go ahead and take two too. At well,
Speaker 1: even though he came in at or whatever it was.
Speaker 1: And the reason I'm doing that is part A because
Speaker 1: I want to say that I'm heavier than an NFL
Speaker 1: wide receiver, and part two, I just love this guy's
Speaker 1: competitive toughness at the catchpoint. Obviously, he can blow by
Speaker 1: people with a straight line speed and the game speed
Speaker 1: more so than the testing speed. But I was so
Speaker 1: impressed by the way he was able to track and
Speaker 1: catch the football down the field even with that small frame,
Speaker 1: and the way he competed with that small frame at
Speaker 1: tight end. I don't have much of a little explanation
Speaker 1: for you here, but I'm going with Tommy Tremble out
Speaker 1: of another dame. Who's your tight end pick? I think
Speaker 1: Tommy's going on day two. To be honest with you,
Speaker 1: I think he can do enough. Uh. I like John
Speaker 1: Bates from Boise State. He was another guy that that
Speaker 1: ended up going down to the Senior Bowl. He's not
Speaker 1: really a standout player in in his receiving skills or
Speaker 1: his blocking skills, but he does everything very well. Um,
Speaker 1: he's probably gonna be that fifth sixth round tight end
Speaker 1: that's gonna have to cut his teeth on and special
Speaker 1: teams a little bit. But I think he's got soft hands.
Speaker 1: He found voids in the middle of the field. John
Speaker 1: Bates from Boise State would be my Day three tight
Speaker 1: end and go ahead and kick us off on the
Speaker 1: offensive line. Oh man, tell me to go first. No,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. Trey Hill from the University of Georgia
Speaker 1: center h six three pounds at his pro day. Uh.
Speaker 1: You had a chance to watch him play alongside Solomon
Speaker 1: Kinley in two thousand and nineteen, so you know that
Speaker 1: there's a fit there. As far as if the Dolphins
Speaker 1: like Solomon Kinley, they're probably gonna like some of what
Speaker 1: Trey Hill brings to the table. Uh, power center. I
Speaker 1: think he has the ability to to reset the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage pretty consistently, and he's got a good reach.
Speaker 1: You know, for a center. He was over thirty I
Speaker 1: think thirty three and a half inches in his arm length.
Speaker 1: So it's those people will ask why his arm length
Speaker 1: matter would but that ability to create that first punch,
Speaker 1: especially as a center when you're in closed quarters and
Speaker 1: everybody's so close together, though, that extra inch or two
Speaker 1: inches can really be the difference in you being able
Speaker 1: to consistently dictate first contact. So Trey hop from George's
Speaker 1: a Day three offensive lineman that I like a bit.
Speaker 1: We've seen length as a priority for the staff on
Speaker 1: the offensive line. I mean I talked about it all
Speaker 1: the time. Jared Jones Smith the a F signing at
Speaker 1: training camp. I stood next to that human being and
Speaker 1: I was like, we are not the same species. This
Speaker 1: is unreal to be next to this person. My pick
Speaker 1: is gonna be from B y U Brady Christiansen. Maybe
Speaker 1: he's not, maybe he's earlier than this, maybe he's later.
Speaker 1: You can tell me. But I just like the way
Speaker 1: he plays from a technique standpoint and a competitive toughness standpoint.
Speaker 1: I think that he checks a lot of the boxes
Speaker 1: of Dolphins like in that regard on day three as
Speaker 1: a developmental offensive line, I'll go ahead and keep it
Speaker 1: for the defensive line and go ahead and go with
Speaker 1: Cam sample kind of a squatty body, explosive first step.
Speaker 1: I think he can give you some stuff off the
Speaker 1: edge of this defense. What say you, I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: you at a cumbo Ogundiji from Notre Dame. Look, I've
Speaker 1: been working on that one a long time, So I
Speaker 1: actually did that one. A locked on doll Fins had
Speaker 1: a couple of Notre Dame fans say, hey, this is
Speaker 1: how it's pronounced. Make sure you get it right. Put
Speaker 1: some respect on my guy's name. You talk about length
Speaker 1: up front, he's got like thirty five inch arms, and
Speaker 1: he's got really surprising hand utilization to be able to understand, Okay,
Speaker 1: I gotta attack this guy at his risk and his
Speaker 1: hands off my frame. Uh bend explosiveness aren't hallmarks of
Speaker 1: his game. But he's got long arms, he can win
Speaker 1: at the point of attack, and he understands how to
Speaker 1: deconstruct blocks. Those things, combined with his stature at six
Speaker 1: fifty six, make him a pretty attractive Day three prospect
Speaker 1: for Miami in my eyes. And go ahead and kick
Speaker 1: us off at linebacker as well. It's a name that
Speaker 1: we haven't mentioned yet. I'm not sure where the league's
Speaker 1: gonna end up settling on him, but Pete Warner from
Speaker 1: Ohio State six three, two forty two, so he's a
Speaker 1: bigger linebacker. I'm watching him against Clemson and like Clemson's
Speaker 1: motioning away from him and they end up rotating him
Speaker 1: and playing him high post and so playing all the
Speaker 1: way back at two footy two, playing like free safety
Speaker 1: against Clemson. So there's some really nice versatility there. And
Speaker 1: you watched him in the box and he's really physical,
Speaker 1: and I like the way he hits, and I like
Speaker 1: the way he gets it gets down into challenging offensive lineman.
Speaker 1: So I don't hear a lot of buzz for Pete Warner.
Speaker 1: I have a really hard time getting a feel on
Speaker 1: where the league stands on Pete Warner. But I'm higher
Speaker 1: on him than day three. But if he's there on
Speaker 1: day three, like you need to need a linebacker, you
Speaker 1: need some insurance for Bernardrick McKinney, who's looking to bounce
Speaker 1: back from an injury that ended his two thousand and
Speaker 1: twenties season, Pete Warner will be a good way to go.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay right there with you. I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say Pete Warren myself on day three and take
Speaker 1: the easy out and finish us off here in the
Speaker 1: secondary with Damar Hamlin out of Pittsburgh. Of course, another
Speaker 1: guy at the Senior Bowl with the Miami Dolphins playing
Speaker 1: that safety position got himself a pick and Brian Flores
Speaker 1: loved it on the sideline when he got that pick
Speaker 1: in the game frowned us out here. Kyle's safety, defensive back, cornerback,
Speaker 1: whatever it might be, who you like, and Cameron buying
Speaker 1: him from feels like such a lazy one because he
Speaker 1: was at the Senior Bowl, the cow Connection coach Alexander
Speaker 1: there in the secondary. But as a guy, you're looking
Speaker 1: for those later picks who might be there and be
Speaker 1: available and plays tough. I think he can be a
Speaker 1: special team's guy. Cameron buying him, I think has enough
Speaker 1: connections to Miami that I think he's one to watch there.
Speaker 1: At the end of day three, I'm gonna throw it
Speaker 1: right back to you here and put you on the spot,
Speaker 1: and I'll go ahead and wrap it up afterwards and
Speaker 1: maybe critique it a a little bit. Have you got one yet?
Speaker 1: Have you put that around mock draft together? Is it
Speaker 1: gonna be where you gonna publish that thing? And and
Speaker 1: go ahead and throw it at us. All right? So
Speaker 1: I did this one especially for you guys here on
Speaker 1: the show. So at at six, I do have the
Speaker 1: Dolphins drafting my preferred choice of the Alabama wide receivers,
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle at eighteen. Of course, I'm using the Draft
Speaker 1: network dot Com draft simulator so I was kind of
Speaker 1: at the mercy of some of who the players were
Speaker 1: and weren't that available. So that's always the tough challenge
Speaker 1: that this puts you in. It's a lot of the
Speaker 1: names that I would typically associate. Sometimes they're they're sometimes
Speaker 1: they're not. I went with Quitty pay at eighteen, overall
Speaker 1: defensive end from University of Michigan. At thirty six, I
Speaker 1: did land Javonte Williams, the running back from North Carolina
Speaker 1: that we talked about at fifty. Travis Quinn Miners is
Speaker 1: the pick there at fifties, So I know that'll make
Speaker 1: you happy, hopefully get an a grade out of you. Uh.
Speaker 1: Eighty one is the actually where I did land Pete Warner,
Speaker 1: the linebacker from Ohio State, so tail in middle of
Speaker 1: round three. Um, I didn't get a chance to really
Speaker 1: Baron Browning was gone. Uh, I needed to get the
Speaker 1: running back I felt like at thirty six, so I
Speaker 1: just Baron Brownie or Pete Warner sitting there at eighty
Speaker 1: one was an attractive fit for me. Another senior Bowl
Speaker 1: guy we did not mention Joshua Bledsoe from Missouri in
Speaker 1: the fifth round. He's a safety who plays primarily in
Speaker 1: the slot, a lot of man the man coverage. He's
Speaker 1: super scrappy. I think he'll play really good on special
Speaker 1: teams for you. I like his demeanor quite a bit.
Speaker 1: And then the two seventh round picks, I picked William
Speaker 1: Bradley King, a defensive end from Baylor formerly of Arkansas State. Uh.
Speaker 1: Prototypical Bill. He's got the length, of the density, the
Speaker 1: size that the Dolphins like at their defensive end position.
Speaker 1: And then another defensive back, Avery Williams from Boise State. Uh. This,
Speaker 1: this dude has the best special team's cut I have
Speaker 1: seen in the last few years as far as blocked punts,
Speaker 1: punt returns for touchdowns, himself blocked punts that teammates are
Speaker 1: returning for touchdowns. Uh. He's showing up on defense. He's
Speaker 1: not overly big. But Avery Williams from Boise State. Uh.
Speaker 1: He had said in his pre draft process, some things
Speaker 1: we're talking aboutbout potentially spending some time as a third
Speaker 1: down running back and catching the ball out of the
Speaker 1: bat like he You want to talk about versatility, and
Speaker 1: the Dolphins love guys. The more you can do, right.
Speaker 1: Avery Williams from Boise State was a guy saw him there.
Speaker 1: At the end of the simulation, I said, I got
Speaker 1: a draft. As it during to my guest to say
Speaker 1: it's an a draft. I mean you got the playmaker,
Speaker 1: the explosive playmaker, the explosive separator of four down player,
Speaker 1: and Jalen Waddle, who I think just fits right into
Speaker 1: this defense and gives you instant production and changes the
Speaker 1: way the defense has to play against you from day
Speaker 1: number one. So home run pick there. Quitty pay at
Speaker 1: number eighteen. We talked about the fit, the lateral agility,
Speaker 1: that first step get off, give him some runway, let
Speaker 1: him use those loose hips and kind of run those
Speaker 1: games and move about the defensive line. You just put
Speaker 1: another dynamic piece to your front seven. Javonte Williams at
Speaker 1: thirty six. The running back position to me is now
Speaker 1: solved to me, the best running back in this entire class,
Speaker 1: and I just love what he brings to the game.
Speaker 1: Quinn Minors to me, could step in a day one
Speaker 1: in play center for you. Maybe maybe he's a year
Speaker 1: two guy after we see what happens with Matt screw
Speaker 1: of this season, So I love that pick. We both
Speaker 1: talked about Pete Warner and the value he provides at
Speaker 1: that spot to give you another piece in that front seven.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna go ahead and admit to you, I'm
Speaker 1: not familiar with Bradley King's games, so I can't give
Speaker 1: you grade on that seventh round draft pick, which I know,
Speaker 1: terrible of me. But the special teams of all you
Speaker 1: added there and Bloods and then Williams at the end,
Speaker 1: that's right up my alley, right up the Dolphins alley.
Speaker 1: A plus draft, my friend. I do what I can.
Speaker 1: I'd like to think I know the team a little bit.
Speaker 1: It works. The whole draft and Dolphins thing is that
Speaker 1: it's not a bad avenue for you, Kyle. You're doing
Speaker 1: pretty good at it. With that in mine. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for spending two hours with me today recording
Speaker 1: these two podcasts. I think we gave the fans everything
Speaker 1: they could hope for. A reminder for you guys, the
Speaker 1: draft party at hard Rock Stadium, myself, John Ken, Jemmy Channing,
Speaker 1: Crowder with you guys on night one. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: different guest Dolphins alumni people coming up to the stage.
Speaker 1: Tons of fun. You can stream now on YouTube as
Speaker 1: well as well as the Dolphins social channels. Plenty of
Speaker 1: coverage coming your way from the Miami Dolphins. One of
Speaker 1: things on Draft night, we'll go ahead and close it
Speaker 1: up here Kyle with what you're working on, what Draft
Speaker 1: week looks like at t d N, promote the stuff man,
Speaker 1: and so while you're at the Dolphins draft party, if
Speaker 1: you wanna you know, hear what what my reaction is
Speaker 1: to the pics. We do have live coverage nights one, two,
Speaker 1: and three or for the NFL Draft, will be lie
Speaker 1: streaming a couple of different places, the Draft Network, social channels, UH,
Speaker 1: the Lockdown Podcast Networks YouTube channel. Brinks dot tv is
Speaker 1: another place we're partnering with with them to provide coverage
Speaker 1: as well. So we'll have streaming all throughout the build
Speaker 1: up to the draft this week, uh like wired to
Speaker 1: wire throughout the day. It's gonna be a busy week,
Speaker 1: but that's this is our super Bowl, right, so we
Speaker 1: we gotta bring it. Uh. And then obviously the streaming
Speaker 1: on the first three days, and then we'll be doing
Speaker 1: some draft class recaps in the immediate aftermath of the
Speaker 1: draft over the next couple of days after that to
Speaker 1: make sure fans of all thirty two teams and yours
Speaker 1: truly is right in the Dolphins one recapping the draft class,
Speaker 1: the prospects, how they fit, the pieces of the puzzle,
Speaker 1: why they made the decisions that they made. So it's
Speaker 1: gonna be really great. And you can find me Almo
Speaker 1: social at Grinding the tape. You said it all, Kyle,
Speaker 1: here we are. Draft week is here, the good time,
Speaker 1: the best time of year in the off season before
Speaker 1: the game start, and you're gonna earn yourself a nice
Speaker 1: long vacation after this is all wrapped up, and and
Speaker 1: in August come back down for training camp. We'll do
Speaker 1: with Miami, right, sound good? That sounds great. I appreciate me,
Speaker 1: you have me, Travis, Thanks a lot. That was fantastic.
Speaker 1: All right, how about that for a lengthy couple of
Speaker 1: podcasts recorded that both those episodes all in one shot.
Speaker 1: One last reminder, Draft party at hard Rock Stadium. You
Speaker 1: heard Kyle talking about the tv N party as well.
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