{"id":2412,"date":"2013-04-25T11:44:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T16:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gridironstuds.com\/blog\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2013-04-25T12:12:08","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T17:12:08","slug":"dolphins-draft-day-to-do-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/dolphins-draft-day-to-do-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins 2013 Draft to Do List:"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I spoke about this on The Gridiron Studs Show<\/a><\/strong> yesterday. \u00a0Shame on you if you didn’t listen but I forgive. \u00a0Here’s what I think the Dolphins should do in the draft this weekend:<\/p>\n

1. Trade out of of the #12 spot. \u00a0Move to the lower 3rd of the 1st round and pick up an additional mid round pick.<\/p>\n

2. With that late first round pick DRAFT: Jonathan Banks CB out of Mississippi St. Banks brings to the table what the Dolphins need in their secondary and that is playmaking. \u00a0Dee Milliner and Xavier Rhodes are solid cover guys but Banks shows up on the stat sheet. \u00a015 Career interceptions with 3 or more every season for four seasons (4 as a freshman). Double digit passes defensed his last three seasons. 321 career interception return yards with 3 for TDs and 5 forced fumbles. Milliner and Rhodes don’t come anywhere close to those numbers. \u00a0Dolphins need turnovers and playmaking in the secondary ASAP.<\/p>\n

3. With the 42nd pick in the 2nd round, go after the top offensive lineman still left on the board if you have not secured what you need through a trade at that position. \u00a0Get a guy you can mold into what you want. \u00a0He has other good guys around him.<\/p>\n

4. With the 54th pick in the 2nd round draft either RB Stepf Taylor (Stanford) or RB Andre Ellington (Clemson). Running backs who have displayed a resume of production in college are the way to go. \u00a0Three years or more of getting it done is the recipe. Maybe they get old fast for your organization because they had too many carries in college but they got the ball because they produced. \u00a0When their end comes in the NFL, you have to go find another one. \u00a0Taylor had over 1,000 yards rushing for three straight years. \u00a0Had over 25 catches for three straight years and had over 1,400 yards from scrimmage three straight years. That’s a proven product. \u00a0Ellington’s numbers not as impressive as Taylors but he had production as well. \u00a0600 yards as a sophomore and then back to back 1,000 yard seasons as a junior and senior. \u00a0 These two backs compliment Lamar Miller’s skill set quite nicely.<\/p>\n

5. With the 77th pick in the 3rd round DRAFT: Kawann Short DT Purdue. Yep, you’ve never heard of him but I can guarantee you opposing coaches in the Big 10 knew who he was before and after they played the Boilermakers. \u00a0Dolphins don’t need another pass rushing end more than they need some pressure from the interior of their defensive line. \u00a0Short lived in opponent’s backfields while at Purdue. \u00a0His resume displays this. \u00a0Three straight years of six sacks or more. Three straight years of double digit tackles for loss including 49 for his career. On top of that, he batted down 17 career passes, intercepted two and forced two fumbles. \u00a0You can work on getting a superstar edge rusher opposite Cam Wake next year not many in this year’s draft.<\/p>\n

6. With the 6 to 7 remaining picks (considering the extra they should get for trading down in the first round), the Dolphins should go after the best players on the board. \u00a0Their picks are scattered from rounds 3 through 7. \u00a0 They should also consider drafting a QB in that 4th or 5th round where they have three picks. \u00a0Getting a Landry Jones (if available) or a Zac Dysert, guys who showed a history of production but lost favor because of their senior year could be a gold find. \u00a0Dolphins don’t know what Tannehill will do. \u00a0Never know what one of these guys may be able to pull out if put in position. \u00a0They have shown that they can put up numbers and lead a team. \u00a0Outside of that, the mid to late rounds are about picking up good football players and not so much about filling some need. \u00a0Players are like collateral. \u00a0If you have good ones you can leverage them later to fill your needs. \u00a0The goal should be getting good football players at this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spoke about this on The Gridiron Studs Show yesterday. \u00a0Shame on you if you didn’t listen but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}