LSU cornerback Mansoor Delane is a name picking up steam for the Miami Dolphins.

The Sun Sentinel’s Chris Perkins chose him as the Dolphins’ first-round pick at No. 11 after the Senior Bowl, and NFL Network’s Daniel Jeremiah also tabbed him as Miami’s selection in his second mock draft, released this week ahead of next week’s NFL scouting combine.

Jeremiah explained his pick and why Delane would be a fit for general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan and coach Jeff Hafley in a Thursday afternoon web conference with reporters from across the country.

“I think they’ll appreciate the fact that he’s scheme-diverse,” Jeremiah said. “He’s someone that, if you want to play him in press (coverage), he’s really, really smooth. He can flip and open up real easy. You want to play him in off (coverage), he’s a fluid mover. He can really see things top-down, drop, make plays on the football.”

Delane would be a natural choice as a potential lock-down cornerback for a team whose starters at the position last season, Rasul Douglas and Jack Jones, are veteran free agents.

Delane, a Maryland native, spent his first three college seasons at Virginia Tech and transferred to LSU for his senior year. He had two of his eight interceptions and 11 of his 27 pass deflections with the Tigers in 2025. And that’s that opposing offenses often stayed away from him.

“He got a little bored when I was watching him because teams just stop throwing in his direction,” Jeremiah continued. “But I thought he’s someone that’s a loose, fluid, smooth athlete, with toughness, that’s scheme-diverse.

“The only true question on him is, do you really see him get really challenged and have to recover and show big-time top speed? … We’ll see how he runs in Indianapolis, but that’ll be the only real question there.”

If the Dolphins don’t go with Delane or one of the other projected first-round prospects at the position, Jeremiah named cornerback as one of the deeper positions in the draft. He also deemed the defensive line class, especially with edge rushers, wide receivers and linebackers as such.

The Miami Hurricanes are certainly contributing to the edge-rusher depth in this draft class, with Rueben Bain a likely first-round pick and Akheem Mesidor also possibly a selection among the first 32 players chosen.

“Bain is just more kind of an identity pick who just plays so hard and so physical,” Jeremiah said. “The dimensions aren’t going to be ideal, in terms of the length, but there’s more that he brings than just what shows up on the stat sheet. Just the overall physicality and toughness that he plays with.”

Jeremiah deems Bain the third-best edge defender of the draft class, with Texas Tech’s David Bailey and Ohio State’s Arvell Reese ahead of him, although he has Bain selected before Reese, at No. 4 to the Tennessee Titans. Remember: They selected UM quarterback Cam Ward with the No. 1 pick last year.

“A lot of debate there with those top-two guys,” he said. “It comes down to the potential of Arvell Reese versus what you’ve already seen, and you know that you’ve got an elite, elite fastball rusher in David Bailey.”

Jeremiah said of Mesidor: “One of my favorite players in the whole draft. He plays outside. He plays inside. It’s just not fair with him against college guards. He just kills them in there. Violent club moves. He’s got knock-back power. He can widen and bull-(rush) on the edge. You’ll see push-pull moves.

“I just wrote, this guy never stops. There’s never a breath you can take when you’re trying to block Akheem Mesidor. He’s an absolute warrior. He’s older. That’s another conversation teams will have to have.”

He added that this draft has plenty of players who are 24 or 25, and teams may look beyond age when making selections.