My 3-Round Miami Dolphins Mock Draft<\/p>\n
For the first time in five years, Dolphins\u2019 fans have something to really look forward to when it comes to the NFL Draft.<\/p>\n
Miami has 11 picks in this draft, which include two in the first round and seven picks total among the top-94 selections.<\/p>\n
The Dolphins have not had that kind of capital since 2021, when they had four picks in the first two rounds.<\/p>\n
With that in mind, I decided to dip my toe in the mock draft space and take a look at what Miami might try to do with the first seven picks of the draft.<\/p>\n
Also, to make it more straightforward, I decided not to make any trades and instead just stick and pick with the 11th, 30th, 43rd, 75th, 87th, 90th, and 94th picks.<\/p>\n
At pick 11, I decided to address the offensive line and select Francis Mauigoa<\/a> out of Miami and play him immediately at right guard with the intent of having him kick out to right tackle in 2027.<\/p>\n In this mock, the only other players worth considering on the board were Mansoor Delane<\/a>, Jeremiyah Love<\/a> and Monroe Freeling<\/a>, but I felt Freeling was best suited for left tackle where Patrick Paul<\/a> currently is, Love would be too much of a luxury pick unless there was a Devon Achane<\/a> trade and lastly, I thought while Delane is great, the potential of Mauigoa was too great to pass up.<\/p>\n With the 30th pick, I added another edge rusher in Zion Young<\/a> to continue beefing up my front.<\/p>\n Among the other possibilities at the pick were Avieon Terrell<\/a>, Denzel Boston<\/a>, and Blake Miller<\/a>.<\/p>\n At pick 43, I went for a high-risk\/high-reward player in Florida defensive tackle Caleb Banks<\/a>.<\/p>\n I understand Banks\u2019 injury history, but if he can stay healthy, he could make the interior defensive line one of the best in the NFL alongside Kenneth Grant<\/a> and Jordan Phillips<\/a>.<\/p>\n Max Iheanachor<\/a>, D\u2019Angelo Ponds<\/a>, and Germie Bernard<\/a> were other players that I considered here.<\/p>\n With my first pick in the third round, I added to the receiver room with Ted Hurst<\/a>, while just 12 picks later, I grabbed Genesis Smith<\/a>, the safety out of Arizona, to help out the back end of my defense.<\/p>\n To finish out my three-round mock draft, I continued my defensive overhaul with the selection of Malik Muhammad<\/a> at pick 90, while I infused some competition into the quarterback room with Garrett Nussmeier<\/a> out of LSU at pick 94.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My 3-Round Miami Dolphins Mock Draft For the first time in five years, Dolphins\u2019 fans have something to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2049],"tags":[217,7,216,251,2087,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-871281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-dolphins","8":"tag-dolphins","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-miami","11":"tag-miami-dolphins","12":"tag-miamidolphins","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116443545787514664","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871281","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=871281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}