B-
Miami Dolphins
Stowers should have been long gone. The Dolphins pounced, and earned a B-.
by Hutchens84 ·
2026 NFL Draft
· 11 picks
· 7 steals
· 1 reaches
The value of the weekend has a name and a slot: Eli Stowers, No. 94, roughly 41 picks past where he belonged.
The cost of the Beck reach is exactly the players who went right after him. If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through interior defensive lineman.
Spending an early pick on safety with interior defensive lineman and linebacker open is the decision the grade keeps circling back to.
Good work on the whole, with interior defensive lineman the one box left unchecked.
Pick-by-Pick
In pick 11 they get a building block for the line at fair value.
In the 30th pick they get a potential shutdown corner, and a steal at that. Need was not the driver here.
Dillon Thieneman at pick No. 43 is money in the bank, a safety taken below his worth. A minor itch, scratched.
Jake Golday at the 87th overall pick is a first-round grade at a bargain-bin price, no notes. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
This one needs a full-page explanation: Carson Beck in Round 3, Pick 26, miles early. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
They barely believed it either: Eli Stowers still on the board at the Round 3 slot. It patches a soft spot without any drama.
A want over a need in No. 130: Bishop Fitzgerald adds a safety while interior defensive lineman and linebacker keeps waiting.
A offensive lineman of that caliber at slot 151 is the definition of value, full stop. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
Quietly one of the better values of the day, Chase Roberts at the 220th pick. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
A straight-up fair deal on Terion Stewart at Round 7, Pick 11, value and slot in agreement. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
Kaden Wetjen in pick No. 238 is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.