Drive Time: Holistic Dolphins 2026 Draft Recap and Themes

Meanwhile, Proctor has size that is an anomaly at the position, at any position, and he moves better than just about all the guys that play around the league average of right around 320 pounds. Again, it reminds me of the lime on Patrick Paul. Even when his technique wasn't right at Houston, he still scored a ton of wins because he was just bigger and faster than everybody he saw. And that works at the NFL level when you're 350 and you move like that. Hey, what is up, doll fans and welcome to the Draftime podcast. On today's show, the draft dust has settled. And we're going to take a bird's eye view of the entire thing. We'll talk about the themes from the class as a whole and go pick by pick and rattle off some extra thoughts I have after 48 hours to sleep on it. Let's go. Make it garbage first. Yeah. Sometimes I think about doing some more like personal content on TikTok or Instagram, sort of like a behind the scenes look at my job. As I imagine a lot of fans out there would find that interesting the day to day of a Miami Dolphins analyst slash media member slash podcaster. I just haven't taken the step to do it, but I do like sharing those things here with fans of the podcast and just to take you behind the pod. Draft weekend is the craziest of the year by far. It hasn't been, you know, it hasn't been a couple of times in 2022 and 2023. Those were pretty light on picks and that afforded me more time to get through everything. But when you've got 13 picks and there's like two picks and a three picks ban or three picks and a nine picks ban, I would say the biggest part of my job is urgency and the ability to work effectively under a fast deadline. Now, there are some days where it's more relaxed and I can take a five minute break here there, but not on draft weekend, 2026, not even close. I knew six of our four of our 13 picks very well as far as prospects go. So those were a bit easier in terms of pulling up old reports and then collecting further data. But the ones that I didn't getting through cut ups, I tried to watch at least two games of each guy. Then it was checking on broodlers, the beast on some other people whose opinions I really value across the draft sphere and then getting those write ups down, recording them for the podcast, putting in sound bites from the assistant coaches or rather the personnel decision makers around the building and then obviously John Eric Sullivan at the end of the end of the night and then turning around a written story on each guy as well. In total, both Thursday and Friday night, I was in the facility until the early morning hours as was our entire team. And it's so cool to watch that process of the content come together, whether it's social, whether it's a quick video hit or it's my stuff that we do. Working with the same urgency man, it is this controlled chaos teamwork in the best way possible Saturday. Gosh, I'm so thankful for Saturday noon starts for the draft because with seven picks that day and most of them unknown to me in terms of their profile. Who buddy and we were getting different, you know, personnel people after each pick. So it's make the pick, start working the player up, run to the press conference room to take in the media veil, run right back, get back to work. And then another pick comes in, rinse and repeat and you kind of get caught up for the few picks in a row. But I think I left here around nine PM on Saturday. So you're basically working a whole week's worth of hours in three days, but dammit, I love it. I absolutely love it, man. When I left, I went straight to down university to the dairy queen off pines and celebrated it with a medium chocolate brown, the extreme blizzard, which is my vice at age 38 ice cream. I know. I'm a pretty crazy guy. And a hero is welcome from my kids who didn't get to see much of daddy as they normally do. But we pay that off with a pool day Sunday. So what I'm saying is I'm still a little bit on cloud nine from all the work and just how exciting it is to get all this stuff done. But now a chance to sort of step back and be more holistic. So that's what we'll do here on this show. Go through each pick a little bit from a big picture view. But I just want to start here with a few of the themes that emerged from the draft to me for the Miami dolphins. Number one is the award winners. I don't remember a dolphins class with this much hardware coming out of college. Five of the picks were all Americans at one point. Trey Moore wasn't one of them, but he was one of two players that won a defensive player of the year in his conference in the AAC in 2023. Jacob Rodriguez won this year in the big 12 speaking of Rodriguez. He was one of two consensus all Americans, Kate and proctor the other and Rodriguez collected the butt kiss. Lambertie, Beneric and Bronco Nugersky award Johnson, the other first round pick Kyle Lewis and Michael Taff were all all Americans as well. And frankly, I think Chris Bell was headed for all American honors before his injury. You also have to a man notes about the dedication to the craft of the entire class, the tape watching prowess preparation, the leadership skills. That was a theme to get a certain type of person in the building, a big man on campus focused if you will. But the big man on campus who was also carrying a humble hunger to him. Like think about Jordan Brooks. That was to me, that was like the archetype of the player dolphins went after this weekend. People that look like and think like and walk and talk like Jordan Brooks. We want to run the hell out of the football and I change the word there for you guys to make it more family friendly. Now, there are bread crumbs that were leading to this throughout the off season, right? Fast gets slow. Big doesn't get small. It's a big man's game, Devon H.H.A.N.S. not available. Sturgeonly stated by John Eric Sullivan. And he's the best player in the team. I don't think there's any doubting that. Brooks and Brewer are great, great players. But H.H.A.N.S. production three years in is like all time good. And if, you know, and he gets the fanfare because he touches the football. Shoot, we heard John Eric Sullivan talk about that at the league meetings when discussing the Jalen Wattel trade. H.H.A.N.T.S.T.S. the ball 20 plus times a game. A great receiver is going to touch it six to 10 times, give or take in a football game. So why not build this thing around H.H.A.N.? I mean, we heard Sully talk about providing Malik Willis with the things that he needs. And that's obviously awesome. We've heard the conviction around Malik Willis. I don't think I have to tell you guys about the conviction in Malik from the front office. They have done that for us. But you know what really helps the quarterback? Good running game, right? We saw the Seahawks run that to the Super Bowl on top of being good at everything else too, but the run game was really unstoppable down the stretch. And H.H.A.N. does so much to take pressure off of your quarterback. And sidebar, hey, you know what a 437 quarterback can do on zone read or on shotgun running plays in general? I mean, the threat of the quarterback around the edge, just like Malik did on a 20 yard touchdown scamper against the Ravens last December, it takes a hat out of the run fit equation. And if you don't honor that, then you get a watch Malik Willis as tail lights roll into the in zone. Then you think about what these players are capable of. Patrick Paul, Jonas, invite, Yenaya Austin Jackson, Kate and Proctor, Aaron Brewer. These are premier athletes at the position. These are guys that have played in multiple schemes, including the one that we've run here in Miami for a couple of years. Sans Proctor, who just got here, obviously, but watch this tape at Bama and their similar stuff in there of him getting out in space and doing those things too. Then with Proctor, he talked to his press conference about being the pin man on pin pull concepts. And he did by remember on HQ, we broke down the dolphins pin pull run game and how it produced three long touchdowns for Devon H.A.N. last year. It's a man blocking scheme, a variant of what we were our bread and butter was in the zone blocking scheme. You go out and you add Wilkaz Merrick, who his best tape, in my opinion in college, was decleating 300 pound guys in Ann Arbor with snow on the ground at Michigan. DJ Campbell, he didn't test through the roof, but go watch his feet in the width and the base and the length 34 inch arms, all that power. That all describes Jamari cellular too. But I think both of these guys are at minimum good depth for the offensive line. Then you add Chris Bell and Caleb Douglas, Douglass, who are nasty blockers on the perimeter and so was Jalen Tolbert. I asked Jeff Halfley about the diversification of the running game at the end of the press conference. He said, I think the guys that we have can run outside zone can run inside zone can run gap scheme. And that was from an answer about defensive versatility. The great part about our conversations is if you find a really good football player, quoting Halfley here, and I mean smart guy, tough guy, a productive player that jumps out on tape, I think it's our job as coaches to have a vision for him. Then I think it's our job schematically to figure out how to make it work for him. I think sometimes coaches look at we're playing three four, we're playing four three. He doesn't fit in the scheme. I don't agree with that. Halfley says, I mean, let's get the best football players we can. And let's figure out what they can do now. And it's going to be fun trying to figure out these guys as we watch them do individual. And then we watch them play football to figure out how to make it work. That excites me as a coach. And I said that before, I think we've got a lot of pieces now to do that end quote. I wanted to share a couple more quotes here from half this one. We need to build it around the quarterback and you need to surround the quarterback with weapons, the offensive line, the wide outs, the backs. So it's not all him because do I like being under center and I do like running the football because the play action pass off of that. You create separation between the second and third level from a defensive standpoint. That's really hard. The screen game, the keepers, everything looking the same, hunting explosives. That's Jeff Halfley back on January 22nd. And this one from Dolphins OC Bobby Slowick, I believe in running the football, believe strongly in running the ball. I think most of the successful teams in the NFL these days run the ball really well at a high clip and really build it from there. You got to win in the trenches. I like the defenses. I like keeping defenses off balance. It's probably my number one thing as far as what I look for as a play collar again, Bobby Slowick in February of this year. So that's the big theme there, the ability to run the ball even when the defense knows it's coming. Number three is positional flexibility. I covered this a lot in the previous section, but just to kind of bring it back to defense, here is Jeff Halfley at the scouting combined saying, I think having variation is so important. You might say we're going to run four three defense, which will base out of four three, but I like to get in the four three structures and three four structures all out of the same personnel grouping. So I'm not subbing and you're saying now, no, now he's a three four, subbing back. Now they're in a three four three. I think I think front variation is huge in having the ability to be multiple. And this quote from Halfley, "When you look at an off-ball linebacker, how does he play in space? How does he react to the run?" But then is he a guy that can match up one-on-one with Bax? Jeff Halfley, again, at the scouting combine. And he said this on Saturday, when asked about drafting DBs, Kyle Lewis, who's got the versatility, I know he's listening to a linebacker, but I think you're gonna see him move around and do some things back there as well. And then on Kyle Smith said this on Kyle Lewis, "We see third down value in coverage, a very athletic guy can run, can play a man coverage, can align as a big nickel, dimebacker, as he keeps developing and stack alignments, which he's done at Pittsburgh. Both are tackling machines. He's talking about Lewis and Traymore, and they attack you in different ways." So yeah, I mean, they're pretty much following suit from what they've said, but just to kind of breeze through this. I mean, Caden Proctor, four position ability, right? Chris Johnson, can play all five defensive back positions, quite honestly. They talked about him as a safety, your solely did. Said he wasn't gonna probably start there or play there, but that he could if he needed to. Jacob Rodriguez, I think he can play any of the three linebacker spots. So always said he'd be a green dog guy, I think he can be a sub-backage guy as well. The receivers, I think there's flexibility individually with Bell the most, but across the three, you literally have a guy that played a different spot, the majority of their college career. Douglas was a Z, Bell wasn't X, and Kevin Coleman, Jr. was a slot. Wheel Caz Merrick, I mean, in line, unbalanced on the same side of the line as garbage, 12 personnel, H-back, fullback, wrap motion, Trey Moore literally became Texas's Dante high tower this year on and off ball splits down near, damn near even down the middle. Kyle Lewis talked about him in depth. He's gonna be a sub-packaged demon, if not more than that, which I think more than that is very likely for him. Michael Taft, he's a free safety all day, but he's absolutely got core special team guy from day one type of traits to me. And then say you try, or he's still developing right now, but has the, you know, has the goods as an F, we talked about his work on jet motion and space and getting some blocks on smaller DBs out there. I think there's a lot more on the bone for his development too. And then with DJ Campbell, the length suggests he could play tackle, but we heard John Robinson say they'll probably start by seeing what he can do at center on top of the interior, or on top of the guard spots for a three IOL spot flex. And then Max Luelin watched his tape and he has as many wins as a nine technique as he does a four I. So position versatility, obviously key here for the Miami Dolphins. How about offensive upside? Unique and rare, right? Proctor's upside is unlike many in this class. Bell at 94 was such a steal. That was a first round player when healthy. And it's one knee injury, right? Not a pattern of injuries that have cost him time over the course of his career. He played 36 straight games prior to the ACL injury. I think that's a wise calculated risk to scoop up a guy that fell because of an injury. I mean, the risk being coming back from the ACL, but guys do that. It's kind of, you know, uniform at this point in football. I think Kaz Merex receiving upside has been pretty much untapped. Try already started playing football five years ago and within three years became a productive SEC pass catcher. So there's all kinds of upside on the offense aside of the ball with this draft. And then finally, the collaboration between coaching staff and scouting staff. I loved what Jeff Hathley said about Chris Johnson quote, "I think he can win on all three levels and he can take the ball away. He tackles and he's aggressive. This was one of my favorite guys in the draft." End quote. That's to me listening to your coach with multiple decades coaching defensive backs being around guys like D'Areal Revis, utilizing his expertise, which sounds like it was a common theme across the draft. This was Kyle Smith on the Trey Moore selection quote, "You always value the coach's opinion on what they're doing going to do with the player, the vision we call it with Trey. We need a little bit more. This is where the vision came in from the coaches and Jeff Hathley. This is where the vision came in for Trey Moore. How are we going to use these guys? Where are we going to align them? Once you get that vision and the clarity from them, it really paints a picture of, okay, we can pull this here. This is how we're going to use them. How are we going to get everybody on the field? And how are they going to affect the other side of the ball?" End quote. So that's the themes I had. The collaboration between coaching staff and scouting staff, offensive upside through the roof, position flexibility being a huge focus. Just as was captains and award winners and we want to run the hell out of the football. Let's pause for a break right there. Come back and go over each pick with a bit more of a bird's eye view. That's next Drive Time podcast brought to you by automation. All right, we're back. And I wanted to spend some time going through each pick and what was there kind of parsed me the consensus big board a little bit, at least for the early picks. And then quite frankly, how little I care about that. But we'll get back to that here in just one second. And not to make this about me, but I'm sure you've guys have noticed how different my rankings were this year than what consensus would tell you. Like I had Denzel Boston's receiver 10 for my personal rankings. He's the six receiver taken. I'm fine with that. I have conviction in what you believe. And for me, that's just the tape. And soling in his staff, have the resources and connections to really find out what a guy is about. And look, I'm not saying that the Dolphins draft was about reaches. I think you can nitpick any teams draft and find a couple of spots where a player went earlier than their perception. But like, if every team is doing that, then what the hell is the point of the discussion? I think there's value in the consensus, but it sure is hell, better not be how you operate entirely. I saw one tweet from a Browns blogger who showed that the Browns are actually the one team that have taken players. And this goes back five plus years. No team takes players closest to the top of the ESPN big board, which I guess is Mel Kiper, the best available for Mel Kiper, then the Cleveland Browns. And I think the Browns had a great draft, but how many games has that won them? You know what I'm saying? And this sort of bleeds into our first pick with Cade and Proctor. I said this to some friends like me and Seth from Fish Tank had a nice call on Friday night. We talked about Nick Sabin's comments on Proctor. And I just kept saying, you know, and now with the benefit of hindsight for the entire draft, just to let it find this point further, I feel even better about it. But I just couldn't envision a world where John Erick Sullivan starts off his draft 10 year for the Miami Dolphins by taking a guy that he has character and discipline flags on. I mean, the rest of the draft was by the board that way, right? In fact, he talked about his resources, Alabama, after the Proctor selection quote, "We did our due diligence with our resources. "We feel really good about where he's at with that. "We brought him in on a 30 visit. "I could feel his conviction and desire "to be a good football player and do the things "that he needs to do to be the best pro he can be. "All I can tell you is that there wasn't another one "in the draft like him." Period. And quote. And to go back to my point about Denzel Boston and conviction of what you're doing, he addressed that. I think Proctor is very much an accelerated version of Patrick Paul. Patrick Paul is a unicorn. And I'm gonna go over some drafts here and tell you about offensive tackles that were selected because I've made the point a million times. Now Patrick Paul's in the second round are rare. Finding a hit, I like that in the second round, is super rare. In fact, you know what I did? I put together a list of 28 players for you. Here are tackles. I removed last year because it's too early to get a feel on guys one year in. I looked at tackles that were drafted from 20 to 70, from 2020 to 2024. You ready for the list? Jordan Morgan, Tyler Geiton, Patrick Paul. There's two pretty good players in the right now. Morgan's gonna be a start of this year for the Packers. Blake Fisher, Ryan Rosengarten, Kingsley, Suea Matia. Rosengarten's the one lockdown starter. Fisher's kicked inside a little bit. Suea Matia has had some ups and downs. Brandon Coleman, Anton Harrison, Tyler Steen. That's not been a good run for those three players. Tyler Smith, he moved inside the guard so take him out of the equation. Luke Gidecki, I would argue, is the one massive home run hit in this entire group so far, Paul and Geiton on their way. But this goes back to 22 and in 23 and 22, there were only four taken in this range, which kind of makes the point itself. Christian Derrassal, another huge hit, but he was the 23rd pick right there right on the cusp of our range. Liam Eichenberg, he moved inside. Walker Little, Jackson Carmen, Sam Cosme, Dylan Raidens, Jalen Mayfield, Isaiah Wilson, Ezra Cleveland, Andre Dillard. That's a list of players that has not been long term as far as anywhere at this point of their career. Titus Howard, very good player. He's a different one in this list. Caleb McGarry was good, but he just retired. Joanne Taylor has been all over the place and played up and down at different spots. Greg Little, Cody Ford, Dalton Ryzener, like Dalton Ryzener, and then Max Sharping. I mean, I was gonna use Pro Bulls as a qualifier, but that's, there's not a lot in there. The guys I mentioned are the only ones that had Pro Bulls. There's genuinely no good way to do it outside of giving you like a film run down, but I'm not gonna do that. But you can just look at who is actually playing. Of those 28 players, 17 of those guys were not full-time starters last year. That's a whole bunch of swing tackles that you're taking with the top 70 pick in the draft. There's a whole bunch of other disparaging notes. Guys out of the league, guys that have been on multiple teams in the last couple of years, but you get the point. Tackle is second to quarterback in terms of the toughest to find, because if you look at free agency, go back to 2022. The big ticket tackles over that time were, to Ron Armstead, the best of that range by far, but what was the knock on him, the availability? He wasn't playing for the Saints at all the last couple of years, and we saw that kind of carry over here to Miami. Really great player when he's out there, though. Lyle Collins cut a year after he could sign, Deweyne Brown, a year later gone. Mike McGlinchee had a really rough first year in Denver, but played a lot better since then, but no one's putting him the top 10 tackles conversation. And that was a market setting deal. Jawan Taylor, the chief just moved on from him, Orlando Brown also was a chief that got moved. Andre Dillard signed for a three year, 29 million dollar contract that year, and he had never started a game for the Eagles, or was never an entrenched starter for the Eagles, when he signed that deal. Go Cougs, but it didn't work for Andre Dillard. Then Jonah Williams, George Fant, Jermaine Luminor, last year Dan Moore gets four for 82, Jalen Moore, who was a backup, like Dillard was, signed two for 30. And now you're starting to see the impact of that, because the biggest tackle on this market this year, Rashid Walker, he got one year four million. Brain Smith, he got two for 20. The NFL has wised up to the free agent tackle market, and teams just are not letting the good ones get out of the. So while yes, I did have bane and downs on my board. And Sully said, those guys are going to be marvelous players. I totally get the thinking of yes, those are two very good players. But what was the talk on both of those players the entire time? Potential limitations of short arms or an athletic, a limited athletic safety who plays a position that traditionally does not go that high in the draft. Meanwhile, Proctor has size that is an anomaly at the position, at any position. And he moves better than just about all the guys that play around the league average of right around 320 pounds. Again, it reminds me of the line on Patrick Paul, even when his technique wasn't right at Houston, he still scored a ton of wins because he was just bigger and faster than everybody he saw. And then we saw Paul come here, remake his body from year one to year two. And assert himself as in my opinion, a top 10 left tackle in the league. And he's only going to get better. I think that's well within the realm for Proctor two. And if he's the right tackle, then freaking Yachtsy, man, talk about an absolute knockout of two critical positions that you could have here in Miami. And if it's a right guard or you put him at left guard and play him alongside Pat, two, then that sounds like a lot of fun to run Devon H. Hand behind both of those guys. I mean, my tapes, Teddy said that I thought he was the, you know, had the potential to be the best guard in the entire class if you convert him there. And that positional flex. I mean, if Paul Jackson and Proctor wind up being the tackles and then with Jonah, brew Proctor, Sawyer, Campbell, Meyer, it's a pretty deep offensive line. And Sawyer has played, you know, four positions. Campbell probably a little bit more of an interior three guy. They said they want to try my center first, same with Meyer, Austin's played three spots in this league. I don't know, man. I go back to the unique and rare comment. Is there maybe more risk with Proctor than Bane or Downs? I think you can argue that. But if they all hit their ceiling, then Proctor's lapping the field. And given the landscape of the tackle position, I completely understand the thinking. And I'm here for it. If you consider that it carries risk, the reward is massive and you mitigate that risk with the ability to kick him inside the guard. If Downs doesn't hit, there's nowhere for him to go. So while I think your upside is the astronomical advantage here, there's actually a lot more of a security blanket because the positional flexibility and had you gone, you want a, there's no positional flex net there either. He's going to play guard, never tackle. Shoot, even the tenth pick in the draft, the giants already said they're going to play Maui Noah inside. So I think it's fascinating stuff. Let's go ahead and move to our second pick of the draft in quarterback, Chris Johnson. I don't know if anybody would have seen this, but former Seahawks quarterback Brock Heward. He hosted Brock and Sock show morning AM radio up there in Seattle, one of my biggest influences coming into the industry. He was distraught when we took Chris five picks ahead of the Hawks. And I think we can keep this one short. You heard halfly talk about him. They talked about his inside outside flexibility. We're doing a breakdown on him and Proctor this week for HQ and man. San Diego State would leave him out there all alone to the field with zero coverage, basically having to cover half the field from far hash over to zero yards up to all the way back to the end zone, 20, 30, 60 yards. I also think this was the start of a trend with a dolphin sort of kicked off runs on positions. He was the second corner back off the board. We jumped in front of Buffalo. I don't know if they are primatek Johnson or not. I don't have that information, but looking at their corner room and overall roster, corner back is a huge need for them or was going into the draft. So what it made some sense. But after 26 picks, one corner, we saw five come off the board over the course of the next 26 picks. I thought other names that made sense in that spot would have been Omar Cooper, Kendrick Falk, TJ Parker, gay backus, but none of them were as close to CJ on my board who was number 18 overall. One more break right there. Come back and talk about the rest of the class. That's next. Draft time podcast brought to you by auto nation. We talked about the corner back run to close segment to there. The same exact thing happened with Jacob Rodriguez again, one linebacker in the top 42 picks of the draft number seven overall and then one or four rather in the span of 11 picks. I liked this linebacker class. I heck of a lot. And J Rob was one of the guys in that group. I was trying to sort through who would stack up in the early second round back into the first round. And even though it wasn't really considered a need, I think for the dolphins, I thought it was, but some folks didn't. I thought this draft was a great opportunity to solidify such an important position for a long time because we've heard so we talk about wanting to get a deal struck with Jordan Brooks. Perfect way to compliment that is a stud on a rookie contract for four years. Now you've got depth and two of the best workers in the entire building in JB and T dot and I'll add Willie Gator as well. And you get to take him Jacob Rodriguez under their wing. Sign me out for that. Caleb Douglas, his teammate was up next. And once again, we saw receivers go in four of the next nine picks that were nine picks at receiver in that third round. Something I talked about on the on the preview shows was that third round seemed like the spot for receivers and it wound up going that way. The thing that I came away with after having some time to digest this was the role. I think Caleb can fulfill first, you know, far be it for me to pigeonhole him and make him any definitive declarations here in April after he just got drafted. But if you go back to Solace time in Green Bay, they brought in a ton of players like this guy and they were spamming the roster with these tall, fast receivers. It kind of reminds me of the Kaden Proctor line, you know, rare, unique because six foot four guys that run sub four fours. It's not common and not even all the guys on this list. I'm going to talk about are that fast as Caleb Douglas is, but Marquez Valdez scantling. I'm sure you guys saw the athletic testing comp damn near identical metrics to what Caleb Douglas was in his combine test this year. And he was a 65 target per year guy, 17 yards per catch guy. It's not just the 35 catches that he made a year that impact the game. They certainly do, but it's the critical element of hold defenders and lifting coverage because those 35 catches at 18 yards a pop. That is a good way to say you better take care of me and notice me because otherwise we're going to show the tail lights and get these big play strikes. They did it with Savion Williams last year after taking Matthew Gold in the first. They took Grant debos in 23 who wasn't as fast as those guys with the height and size was there with wicks and read being other players in that class. So another triple dip at receiver that season. They took Romeo dobs and Samari Torrey in 2022. Two more big bodies who both could run. Jamon Moore in 2018 was six four and could run. Then equanimous St Brown was taken 30 picks after M.V.S. and he was tall and could run. Clearly that role is important to the program and as something solely took with Caleb Douglas. Next up was Will Kazmerich, Brugler, Peter Warzog of film watchers. Are you guys watching film watchers? That guy is great. He's an outstanding presenter of information and he has a lot of knowledge. Check him out if you have not seen his YouTube channel or his Twitter yet. And solely himself on top of Peter and Brugler have all said something to the effect of day one plus in line blocking skill set for Kazmerich. And you guys remember in 2024 how adamant I was that the guard play was the invoked talk when I couldn't insist bigger enough that tied in run blocking was the key to unlocking Devon H.Anne and it got a lot better in 25 and sure enough H.Anne goes from 907 yards on the ground on 24 to 1350 last year. I love the tape of Kazmerich and Michigan where there's snow on the ground and he is dumping ends and defensive tackles like their toddlers like taking it to them and horrible weather. That's a mindset player man and he has the technique and pop to really impact the outside run game for us. I love how he pairs with Dolsich and then ideally the development of say do Troyora the draft pick in the sixth round here. We already went over Kyle Lewis and Trey more a bit in the first segment just the defensive versatility man and it's so important to a mass players like this because guys like them expand your roster in a way that allows you to withstand the attrition of an NFL season. They'll cover kicks. They'll be all over your sub package menu, which it sounds like Jeff Hathley is going to be vast in that their smarts and flexibility helps you disguise what you're doing. And then you obviously hope they develop into full time roles. We had Michael Taft on his media veil today and he talked about Trey Moore playing off-ball linebacker and wearing the green dot when Anthony Hill got hurt back in the Arkansas game and more who had never done that don the green dot kicks back into that Mike backer position and ends the game with six quarterback pressures on 10 pass rush snaps while call on the defense and speaking of Taft my goodness the humble intelligence just jumps off the screen. You talk to him. You guys are going to love Michael Taft and he fits the mold of a Swiss army knife. And then you have a lot of special teams contribute your guys like these guys that play like these guys do that have that mindset they do to me they at least provide you special teams core guys and they around out your depth on your roster. And if you get that on day three it allows you to be more aggressive in the earlier parts of the draft and then for agency to because now you've got day three contracts that are rounding out the back end of your roster allows you to pump up the front part of the roster even more. Just across the board on these get three guys that quote from from Jacob Rodriguez earlier they just want to find a way to be on the grass and that mindset can become infectious talked about Trey already the tie down I talked about offensive upside earlier as well I think this dude personifies that and I love how we did it with Proctor where we already have two good starting tackles that doesn't put him in a position where he has to be that guy day one he can he's into it and get to a level where he's ready where if he doesn't do it impacts the team. So it's the same deal here with with Dolce and tow right. You don't need a guy right away to play especially with Kaz Merrick kind of being that why so with Dolce it's kind of playing some of the F roll is there as well like Dory can develop I think it's a good competition for him and Jalen conures who was on I R last year but solely in Colbe and company brought him back because he was a kind of a high upside player last year. But just go watch Trey already move and you'll see the upside man big hand strong kids still in ascending player at this point of his career and then with DJ Campbell I'm kind of surprised that he lasted this long and how about the savvy trade with the Panthers to get this pick from 227 up 27 spots 200 because maybe he goes before 227 and we miss out on him 34 inch arms at guard tons of power inside zone his tape. He has traits, but he also started 43 consecutive games, kind of a perfect six-round pick to be honest with you. Then you close it up with Max Luellen, another guy that I felt Miami just basically took two guys that to close up shop that should not have been on the board at that point. Really, really good pass rush plan. The spend move you've seen by now, some things to iron out in the running game, but I think he can, he can compete for playing time right away. So longer podcast, not really 31 minutes give or take, but I had this idea for 48 hours and this is the result. So Wednesday, I'm going to do a sound bite round up from the rookies. We heard from a lot of them on Monday. We'll hear from more on Tuesday. I'll go back and pull up the archives of the guys earlier as well. So keep an eye out for that as we start to geared towards mini camps. I'll try to lock down some guests in the show. We'll have our annual UDFA podcast with Emory Hunt at some point. The content does not sleep. We need the do I in the meantime, you all please be sure to subscribe to the podcast. Leave us a rating. 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