How Many Miami Dolphins Made ESPN’s Top 10?!

How Many Miami Dolphins Made ESPN’s Top 10?!

[Music] Happy Friday everybody. We are going to be checking the ESPN scouts executive ranking of each position and to see how many Miami Dolphins made it in the top 10 and honorable mentions and possibly got a vote. We’ll take anything at this point. [Music] What is up Finn fans? I hope you’re having a fantastic Friday so far. It is early morning, 7 o’clock. This is when I’m releasing this video. Enjoy your coffee, whatever you’re doing to get ready for your day. And if you’re watching this later in the day, how was your day? I want to say something real quick and then we’ll jump right into this. You all are amazing. Uh, so far this t-shirt, um, 11 have been sold. And I know people are probably like, “11? That’s not a lot.” To me, that is a lot. I expected to sell about five of them and 11 have been sold. Thank you. 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Like throughout the season, I’m going to think of fun things for different shirts. So, link below if you would like to grab it. I appreciate you. DM me whether on Twitter, Instagram, or email me if you want to get a shout out. appreciate you so oh so oh so oh so oh so oh so oh so oh so oh so oh so oh so oh so oh so oh so oh so oh so oh so oh so oh so oh so oh so oh so oh so oh so oh so oh so oh so oh so oh so oh so oh so so very much so ESPN they do this every year and in 2025 so essentially what they did as a reminder of the rankings process votes go uh gave up voters gave up their best 10 players at a position then we compiled the results and ranked candidates based on the number of top 10 votes composite average and a dozen of interviews uh with research and film study helped from ESPN analyst Matt Bowen. In total, more than 70 voters submitted a ballot on all at least on at least one position and in many cases all positions, additional voting and following calls with some. So essentially this is um ESPN league executive, coaches and scouts. So, this is executive leagues, uh, executives, coaches, and scouts. So, let me move myself over here. Got a little bit more room over here. We’re going to start with running backs because that’s how they did it. As you can see here, uh, the seventh was running backs. They did defensive tackles, edges, safeties, tight ends, interior offensive linemen, offensive tackles, quarterbacks, offensive ball, offball linebackers, wide receivers, and corners. We’re going to go through them all quickly and just kind of see uh who, if any, Dolphins made the list. So, Saquon was one, obviously, Derrick Henry 2. Uh Jamar Gibbs or Jamari Gibbs, BJ Robinson, CMC, interesting, even though um barely, you know, got really hurt last year. Josh Jacobs, Jonathan Taylor. Again, I expected James Cook to be higher, but that’s that. Joe Mixon, Alvin Kamara. Devon Aane gets an honorable mention from an AFC executive. He said Elite Speed and Explosion could wear down because he’s smaller similar to Gibbs. Uh he just got banged up, run or runs very hard for small he is as for how small he is and should get out on the perimeter more as a pass catcher. So Devon Aan. So, there’s the first Dolphin who gets an honorable mention. Doesn’t make it into the top 10, but I kind of I’m looking for anything at this point with the Dolphins. And then you see also receive votes. So, these guys did receive votes, but obviously not enough to make it into the honorable mentions or top 10s. You have uh David Montgomery with Detroit. Uh you have Brian Robinson Jr., uh Chubba Hubard, uh DeAndre Swift, Kenneth Walker III. So, there can I just scroll down? No, that’s the most recent one. So, there’s that. So, so far we’re on the board with uh an honorable mention. So, now we’re going to defensive tackles. Let’s see who we got here. Dexter Lawrence is one. Chris Jones is two. I thought they’d be switched here. Interesting. Jaylen Carter, young guy. Uh Jeffrey Simmons. He was a available free agent, but he went back to Tennessee. I would have loved the Dolphins to get him. Uh Quinnon Williams, bless you. Thank you to himself, Leonard Williams. Uh, Marabuk, I’m not even Nam Namdi. Matabuk, another free agent I would have loved the Dolphins to get, but obviously goes back to Baltimore DeForest Buckner. Uh, Veto, I think, should be higher than this. Vay has always been just a monster of a man. Uh, and Cameron Hayward. Now, here’s your honorable mentions. Zack Caler makes the honorable mentions and this is from an NFL coordinator. He’s probably he pro he’s probably getting more credit for his 2024 performance because Christian Wilkins wasn’t there. He worked himself into an allprocaliber player. Tough, smart, dependable ultimate team guy. So, so far we got two guys on the list in honorable mentions, but hey, I will take that again. I’ll take anything at this point. And here are some uh also received votes. Kenneth Clark, Ed Oliver, Darren Payne, Keny, not even going to try to pronounce his name. So, so far, two honorable mentions. Not upset about that. Let’s go to edge rushers. Do the Dolphins get an edge rusher in the top 10? I doubt it, but let’s see. Uh Miles Garrett obviously number one. TJ Watt number two. She’s got a fat contract. Holy crap. Um, Micah Parsons. Okay. Max Crosby, I’m not seeing. Nick Bosa. Uh, Trey Hendrickson. Still waiting to get signed. Aiden Hutchkins. Uh, Hutchinson. Uh, Will Anderson Jr. Dell Hunter. Flipping onetw combo there. Jared Verse. Okay. I am not I have no problem with this top 10. Actually, totally agree with it. Let’s see some honorable mentions. Unfortunately, no Miami Dolphins. There you got Brian Burns, Nick uh Bonito, uh Jonathan Grineyard, and um George Carus. Do we get an honor? Oh, we got one vote. Chop Robinson did get a vote, but not enough to make honorable mentions or the top 10. So, no edge rushers for the Dolphins. I honestly think if uh Chub or uh Phillips didn’t get hurt, I think they would have made at least honorable mentions. Now we’re going to safeties. That two is up there. Uh here we go with safeties. Number one, Kyle Hamilton. Yes. Uh Brian Branch for Detroit. Xavier McKini with Green Bay. Jesse Bates with Atlanta. Kirby Joseph with Detroit. Derwin James Jr. with Los Angeles. Antonio Winfield with Tampa. Buddha Baker. I think Buddha Baker should have been a little higher. Uh Mika Fitzpatrick. Now here’s the thing. He wasn’t a Dolphin, but I think they’re going off of like what they’re seeing going to 20 or 25. So, I will take this. So far, we have one Dolphin on the top 10. We’ve penciled in uh Fitzpatrick as a Steelers safety until Pittsburgh and Miami splash trade on June 30th. Uh forced a quick edit. Now, he’s back with the team that drafted him 11th overall in 2018. Uh the move is welcome change for Fitzpatrick whose ball production production dipped the past two seasons after recording 17 interceptions and 38 pass breakups from 2019 to 2022. He managed uh one and seven respectively from 2023 to 2024. He was the best in the NFL for years but slowed down an AFC executive said Fitzpatrick has fallen from 1 to four to nine in the rankings over the past three years. He still has a lot to offer. incredible hard worker, tone setter, uh super solid running uh things on the back end and preventing big play uh plays, things uh that go unnoticed. An NFL corner said, “I’m expecting a bounceback year from him.” I’m expecting a bounceback year from him as well, especially because of what Weaver’s going to do with him in uh the defense and he’s going to be essentially the quarterback back there. And then Julian uh Love get rounds it out. So, we have Javon Holland is your first honorable mention. I love the skill set, but he drastically regressed last year, uh, which was shocking to see from a younger player in a contract year. I agree. Again, myself, I don’t know how many think that I think he took, um, business decisions on his own. So, there’s that. Um, and that’s about it. I don’t expect any Dolphins really to get a nod there. But you know, Mika number nine, I expect him to have a bounceback year as well. Tight ends, I expect Janu to be in the top 10, but obviously I don’t expect any Dolphin to be in the top 10 because we don’t really have anyone. So, you got Brock Bower of uh Ba Bowser Bowers. I thought it was just Bower. Uh, number one, KD, uh, Sam Leaporta, uh, Trey McBride, Travis Kelce, he fell down. Where was he? Four, uh, last year’s ranked one. Mark Andrews, um, TJ Hawin Socks. I know it’s Hawinson. Uh, Isaiah Likely, Dallas God, and David and Jooku. So, Janu is an honorable mention. Best in the NFL after the catch, can really run. not an elite blocker at this stage, an AFC personnel executive said. Again, I think uh his production a lot came from where this offense put him in. Um but we will see here interior offensive line where so some people have a PFF has um Brewer I think he ranks seventh. So I wonder where these executives might have Aaron Brewer ranked. So, Creed Humphrey is one, uh, Tyler Smith is two, Quinnon Nelson is three, Trey Smith, who got a big, uh, extension, uh, is four, Landon Dickerson, Joe Thoon with the Chicago Burst, uh, Chris Lindstöm, Quinn Miners. You know what drives me nuts? I’m just going to I’m going to vent a little bit right here. Creed Humphrey. The Miami Dolphins could have drafted Creed Humphrey if they stay Pat and didn’t trade up to take Leam Mikenberg. They could have had Creed Humphrey. Also, Quinn Miners, they had an an opportunity to take him as well, I think, in the same draft, if not obviously another draft, and they didn’t. Could have both of them. Tyler Linderbomb. Let’s see. Let’s see. No Dolphin here. Robert Hunt, but again, he’s not a Dolphin. Do we have a Dolphin down here? An honorable mention. Steve Ailla. Nope. No. Interesting. Interesting that Aaron Brewer doesn’t get any love from the executives, coaches, and whoever else votes. Uh, offensive tackles. Uh, if, um, Tro Armstead didn’t retire, I think he’d be on this list. Warps, Su, Lane Johnson, Trent Williams. He’s another man. 36. I don’t know how much longer he’s going to play. Uh Rashan Slater, Larry Tonsel, Deion Dawkins, uh Christian Derisaw, Andrew Thomas. Interesting. Andrew Thomas, he he was having an off year. Uh then you got your honorable mentions here. Jake Matthews, Joe Alt, Ron Staley, Colton Miller. Yeah, definitely no Dolphins. One of them was injured for most of the year and the other one just retired. So you’re going to get no. So again, the offensive line is hot garbage. hot doo garbage. So, quarterbacks, here’s the big question. Where does Tua land up? Land up? Where does Tua land? So, what is their ranking for quarterbacks? One, Patrick Mahomes. Uh, two, Josh Allen. Three, Joe Burrow. Interesting. They have Joe Burrow over Lamar Jackson. Jaden Daniels number five. I don’t know if I put Jaden Daniels five yet. Matthew Stafford six. Justin Herbert seven. I think for me is a little too high. Um, he’s always been a top five to eight quarterback, accurate to all levels, athletic and sound decision-m. It’s almost like he underr he’s underrated now in my opinion. He’s taken for granted. Win a playoff game. Same thing I say about Dolphin. Uh, Tua, you got to win a playoff game. That’s why I don’t have him in the top 10. He can’t win a playoff game. Jr. Goff eight. Jaylen Herz. Jaylen Herz being nine is disrespectful in my opinion. And I get on Jaylen Herz, right? I get on him because he’s part of an all Madden team, but still, he has done some things on his own to help that team win. For me, I would put Jaylen Herz, probably at five. Uh, but I’m going to do my own list of quarterback rankings. Um, Penn is Baker Mayfield. I’m okay with that one. Then you got your honorable mentions with CJ Strad and Jordan Love. So, only two quarterbacks get the honorable mention. Tua does get a vote. He did receive a vote. from who? We don’t know. But Kyler Murray, Brock Party, Dak Prescott, Aaron Rogers, Bo Knicks, and Tua all received a vote but couldn’t make it into the top 10. Um, yeah, I’m not upset with Tua being uh receiving a vote but not being in the top 10 or honorable mentions. He got hurt. He played seven game. He missed seven games. It’s in 2023 he was in the top 10 or he was honorable mention. I honestly don’t remember. Um or 2024. I think they do it going into the next year. Uh, but you got to play a full year and maybe he would have made it, but he didn’t. So, I’m I’m fine with that. Next on the list is offball linebackers. I don’t expect the Dolphin to be on here. I really don’t. Um, Warner should be number one, of course. This man is ridiculous. Uh, Rocoin Smith, Dolphin should have could have got him, but they traded for Bradley Chub instead. would a could have, should have. Zack Baughn, uh Nick Bolton, Frankie Louvu, Tmaine Edmmonds, Levante David. Good for him still making this list at the age of 35. Good for him. Overshawn. Um Greenlaw. Dolphins tried to get Drew Greenlaw, but I don’t know why they didn’t pull the trigger. Quincy Williams. Uh, honorable mentions goes to Jeremiah Corora Cororam. I got I got good enough. Bobby Wagner gets an honorable mention. Patrick Queen, uh, Deario Davis, Matt Milano. Look at all these honor mentions. Holy crap. There was two for the quarterbacks. Uh, Logan Wilson, Jack Campbell. I wish the Dolphins could have drafted him, but he went way too high. Um, any Dolphin. Oh, Jordan Brooks gets a vote. Good for Jordan Brooks. Doesn’t really mean much because he’s not top 10 nor honorable mention, but good for Jordan Brooks for getting a vote. Hey, we’re getting votes. We’re just not making the top 10. I don’t think we’ve seen a Dolphin make the top 10 besides Mika Fitzpatrick. Interesting. Interesting. Interesting. Now we go to wide receivers and I fully expect Tyreek Hill to be in the top 10. Let’s see where he ranks. Jamar Chase is number one. Justin Sarferson’s number two. And there is Tyreek Hill number three. The Dolphins can save $14.9 million on the 2025 cap if they trade Hill, which would be a surprise, but the notion that the Miami Dolphins can hear uh that first line and not blink says a lot about Hill’s turbulent 2024 campaign, objectively his worst full season since becoming the NFL star in 2017. He struggled mighty without Tua in the lineup, appeared to quit on his team in week 18, and has been saying all the right things since. He’s averaged 1,57 yards per season between 2020 and 2023. Uh the number fell to 959 in 17 in 17 games last season. Yet Hill fell just one spot of the ranking. The reason is simple. Attention. He commands it from the defense. Uh his mere presence changes the math on the field. Since joining Miami in 2020, Hill Hills four receiving touchdowns on throws of 20 plus yards down the field is tied for the most in the league with AJ Brown. He still impacts how you prepare uh for the team so much due to his speed. An NFL executive says he dictates so much. His speed hasn’t fallen off despite the down year. Added a veteran AFC scout. Even if he lost a half a step, he’s still more explosive than everyone everyone. Power with raw speed. I don’t think defenses have made some adjustments to that Miami offense. Let him run around with window dressing and limited big plays. Yeah, the Miami Dolphins can very easily save money right now. They also very easily can save money next year with moving on from him, which I expect. I think he’ll be a Dolphin this year unless the wheels fall off like I’ve said before and they start cleaning house. I think he’ll be one of the guys the Miami Dolphins trade. Um, but yeah, so Tyreek Hill number three, you got CD AJ Brown, Amar St. Brown, Malik Neighbors, cool for the secondyear guy. Uh, Nico Collins, Mike Evans, interesting for the aged vet. Garrett Wilson, who just got a big fat contract as well. Honorable mentions, Terry Mcccluren wants a trade. Puka Nua, uh, Brian Thomas Jr., DK Metaf, T. Higgins, and Devonte Adams did. Oh, there he is. Jaylen Wadd did get a vote, but not enough. Same with Lad Mcconi. Um DJ Moore, Calvin Ridley, Courtland Sutland, George Pickkins, uh Jameson Williams, Devonte Smith, you know, the the starters made it, but the second string guys or the you know, the one B’s uh didn’t make it. So, there’s that. So, yeah, we got one in here and another with a uh vote. And now we got corners. I don’t expect any of the Dolphins corners to be here. I expect a pass corner to be on here, but I don’t expect any Miami Dolphin corner to be on this list at all. Patrick Certain, Derek Stingley Jr., Denzel Ward, Trent McDuffy, Sauce Garner got a fat contract as well, Christian Gonzalez, JC Horn, Jaylen Johnson, Quinnon Mitchell, and Devon Witherspoon. So, Jaylen Ramsay did not make the top 10. I guarantee you he’s an honorable mention, though. There he is. I I was about to say, is he the only one? No, but he’s the only one who got a big old paragraph. Still a good starter, but is uh but is in a physical decline. An AFC executive said, you could make the argument he’s still a top 10, but he’s just outside of it for me. Another AFC evaluator said, “In my opinion, he’s better in the nickel or with specialty roles at this stage.” So, guess the Dolphins made the right move on moving on from him uh when they did. And he got honorable mentions as well. Sneeed, uh, Terrell, Murphy, Diggs, um, and Humphrey. I don’t know why I’m looking here. There’s going to be no Dolphins because the only Dolphin we had that was worth anything just got an honorable mention. So, that is essentially who made um the the list, the roster, the all you want to say. But here’s the thing. He said, “Now that the final survey results are in for Fowlers’s annual position rankings, we could see how leagu’s p uh league personnel evaluates the Miami’s roster has a bit of a decay over the last three years, particularly on defense. This data did exhibit a point a plus. 43 correlation to the following year when uh win totals in 2023 and 2024. I’m going to make it really big so you can see the chart down there. So, as you could see, uh, in 2023, we had total we had 10 names on the list that, you know, ranked about five. We got about this many points on defense, six names on offense, we had four names, and then 2024, we had 11 names. Again, this was after the 2023 season, we had six on offense, uh, six on defense, five on offense, and now this past year, uh, eight total names, four and four. Again, these are guys that got voted or honorable mention or whatever. Huge drop. Average rank is 22nd. Offense and defense in their 20s. So, not good. Not good at all. And it shows how far the Dolphins have come from the start of Mike McDaniel’s tenure with the team to where we’re at now with everyone kind of looking around at each other like what is the identity of this team? Um, so yeah, we didn’t got what two in the top 10 in Ma and Tyreek Hill. We got Hchan, Caler in honorable mentions and we got a few that got votes with Wadd, Tua, Brooks, and I think that’s it. So, you know, we got some names up there, but again, the team has to do something to warrant uh any of this respect. And again, like I said, there’s a lot of talk and Jaylen Wright was on the NFL Network and he said some really good things and I’m not going to pick on Jaylen Wright because I love what he said and I think Jaylen Wright’s gonna have a fantastic year. But we’re at the point now where we keep hearing these things about, you know, oh, we’re we’re turning this tone and we we don’t like hearing this anymore. And we don’t either. But you got to show us, you know, show us on the field, especially week one, especially even in training camp. Go hard. I I don’t want to see these guys have vet days off. No more vet days off. Like that’s my biggest thing is go hard and then week one go out and and blow the Colts out. win like 24-7. I’ll take that. And then face the AFC East and win. You beat Buffalo in week three. You showed us. We’re ready. We bought in. Let’s move forward. But if we start one and three, we’re all going to sit here and be like, “This is it.” And maybe some moves and decisions will be made. But we’ll see. Training camp hasn’t even started. So, let’s not think that way again. I think tomorrow I’m going to do a film breakdown and give you a Saturday video. Then next week we get ready for training camp. Uh vets report Tuesday. You’ll have a preview video on Monday. Then uh they hit the field Wednesday. I’ll give you some notes and information hopefully for those three days from our beat writers. And then the 26th is open to the media. Not the media, the the fans. So we get a little bit more and even some film and yada yada. So going to be interesting. But I will see you maybe tomorrow. I don’t know. depending on how I feel to sit down and break down film of Zach Wilson. I thought of it and I thought it would be a good idea, but like we’ll see. I might do it. I’m like 80% sure I’m going to do it. But comment below. Let me know what you guys think about who made the top 10, who made honorable mentions, all that stuff. And I might see you tomorrow. But like usual, stay classy and fins

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