Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a>Fit for Miami<\/p>\nThe Dolphins already have an outstanding linebacker in Jordyn Brooks, who earned First-Team All-Pro honors after leading the league in tackles. Adding Styles at his side could make the middle of the Miami defense a formidable spot.<\/p>\n
The No. 11 slot may be a bit early for an off-ball linebacker, but the skill set of Styles could be tailor-made for Hafley and his staff. His athleticism would provide the Dolphins with the versatility to disguise coverages and blitzes, making life difficult for opposing offenses.<\/p>\n
Bottom line<\/p>\n
The Dolphins have needs at several positions with a reset of the roster and team identity already underway. Styles has the range, versatility, athleticism, and smarts to be a safe pick to kick off new general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan’s tenure.<\/p>\n
Should the Dolphins make him the No. 11 pick, it would be a solid way for Sullivan and Hafley to begin their build of a new look Miami team, as Styles has plenty of potential to be a star in the NFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 9, 2026, 6:47 a.m. ET Sonny Styles began his career at Ohio State as a safety before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2049],"tags":[95878,217,7,216,251,2087,6,95947,95948,95882,95930,96027,96126,95955,95951,96758,95895,97666,95906,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-740242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-dolphins","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-dolphins","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-miami","12":"tag-miami-dolphins","13":"tag-miamidolphins","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnfldolphins","16":"tag-sstsndolphins","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagbig-ten-conference-football","19":"tag-tagcollege-sports","20":"tag-tagfred-warner","21":"tag-tagjordyn-brooks","22":"tag-tagmiami-dolphins","23":"tag-tagncaa-big-ten-conference","24":"tag-tagnfl-hub","25":"tag-tagohio-state-buckeyes","26":"tag-tagoverall-positive","27":"tag-tagsports-news","28":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116040735707235344","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}