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Miami Dolphins
A costly weekend of dealing drags the Dolphins to a D.
by bobbo ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 16 picks
· 5 steals
· 2 reaches
You can fall in love with a player. You are not supposed to marry him in the wrong round. The Dolphins did exactly that with Solomon Byrd in Round 6, Pick 41.
They lost the exchange badly enough to drag the whole class down. The Melton pick alone nudges the whole weekend up a notch.
Bottom line, they will need several of these picks to beat their grades just to break even.
Pick-by-Pick
A market-rate edge rusher, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Chop Robinson. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
Adonai Mitchell in pick No. 33 is exactly on the number, no argument either way. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
By-the-book stuff, Darius Robinson at pick 38 squarely in line with his ranking. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
Jordan Morgan at the 39th overall pick is right where the board had him, plain and simple. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
No edge and no loss on Cooper Beebe in the Round 2 slot; it is a wash and a sensible one. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
Value with a capital V on Chris Braswell in slot 56, a genuine coup. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
They paid sticker price for Cade Stover in No. 68, and that is fine. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
Max Melton at pick 101 is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. A minor need, but a need all the same.
Trey Benson slipping to slot 104 is the kind of luck good rooms make for themselves. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
A straight-up fair deal on Ainias Smith at the 136th overall pick, value and slot in agreement. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
No drama and no debate, Jordan Travis went about where he belonged in Round 5, Pick 38. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
They took Jordan Jefferson at par in the 184th pick, which is nothing to complain about. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Javontae Jean-Baptiste at the Round 6 slot is a steep price for a hunch, hard to square with any board. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
A wild overpay on Solomon Byrd in pick No. 216, the sort that defines a class for the wrong reasons. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
A top-tier offensive lineman at a bargain, Garret Greenfield in the Round 7 slot, plain and simple. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
The board fumbled JD Bertrand all the way to pick 241, and they scooped it up. It patches a soft spot without any drama.