It wasn’t the guy I expected us to draft, but it was the position I wanted without question. The O-line is a joke, we have 2 players on that line that are solid in LT Patrick Paul and C Aaron Brewer. That’s it! Jon-Eric Sullivan’s first move in the 2026 NFL Draft was trading back from #11 to #12, one spot with the Dallas Cowboys. We acquired two 5th RD picks, #177 and #180 to move back one spot, and break the hearts of quite a few fans here who wanted S Caleb Downs. One guy who probably was thrilled with the pick was RB De’Von Achane, and another guy was certainly QB Malik Willis. I’m looking forward to having these massive bookends on our O-line, it’s been way too long since this O-line was a strength, and not coincidentally, way too long since this team was a legit contender. Patrick Paul at 6’7 326 and Kadyn Proctor 6’7 352.
Jon-Eric Sullivan’s next trade in the draft was a trade up, as the Dolphins moved from RD1 Pick #30 to Pick #27 by trading Pick #30 and Pick #90 (RD 3) for the #27 Pick and and a 4th RD pick #138. The Dolphins at #27 selected San Diego St. Cornerback Chris Johnson. The 6’0 193lb CB will undoubtedly be pushed to start at the very important CB position. I had hoped we never traded up in this draft, I want more picks, but we really didn’t lose any picks, we just moved back from RD 3 to RD 4. Listen, it’s way too early to judge picks, but I would say the majority of us figured we’d go O-line and CB, and that’s precisely what we did. If/when S Caleb Downs is a perennial All Pro, and Kadyn Proctor is 6’7 380 and the fattest turnstile in Dolphins history, go ahead, pound your chest because you were right. On the other hand, if OT Kadyn Proctor is a motivated player here, and is mauling defenders at the LOS and downfield with regularity and provides solid protection for our QB, I won’t have a care in the world what Caleb Downs is doing.
Day 2 coming up tonight at 7:30 will have the Dolphins waiting 11 spots at Pick #43 and then we’ll have three selections in RD 3, #75, 87 and 94. I won’t be shocked (or disappointed) if we tap a guy for the O-line again in RD 3. LT Patrick Paul, LG Jonah Savaiinaea, C Aaron Brewer, RG Kadyn Proctor, RT Austin Jackson (if healthy). 2 gaping holes bigger than the space between Michael Strahan’s two front teeth that needed to be filled. I personally do not want to hand Big Jonah that job, and I also didn’t want to see OG Jamaree Salyer start at RG. I’m aware we could have selected an OG later and we still might do that. How many times have we been failed by the O-line? How many times have we had to watch an injury torpedo the success of that unit? Two injuries? If not injuries, just out and out subpar play? It’s been a nightmare, and we took one step in attempting to fix that. You all saw the run on the O-line, it was real, and it will probably continue.
I think we’ll probably grab a WR and possibly a TE as well, but where, who knows? I’m curious to see if we move back again in RD 2, that wouldn’t surprise me. We definitely need EDGE help so RD 2 would be a good place to grab one. Players still available at the EDGE position are Zion Young, Cashius Howell, T.J. Parker, Gabe Jacas, Derrick Moore and R. Mason Thomas. We’ll see if we nab one of those guys in RD 2, and then maybe find a WR and another O-lineman. I know some of you love Penn St. EDGE Dani Dennis-Sutton. Maybe we take him. Maybe he would help you guys recover from us not taking Caleb Downs. I know you guys liked him, I respect that, but how did he all of a sudden become a Hall of Famer? I’ll wait for your responses later!
What do you guys think we do in RD 2? Move up? Move back? What position do we target in RD 2? Then what do you think we do in RD 3? Let me know, I want to hear . . .
GO DOLPHINS!!!
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way too long since this team was a legit contender. Patrick Paul at 6’7 326 and Kadyn Proctor 6’7 352.
Proctor played at 400lbs while at Alabama. The dude has discipline issues.
That’s my last negative post about the poor showing last night. (Until he becomes a problem)
The picks really did shake my confidence in this regime right off the bat.
I know you guys liked him, I respect that, but how did he all of a sudden become a Hall of Famer? I’ll wait for your responses later!
Him and Rueben Bain. We will watch them for the next 5 years as those two become probowlers.
Who all the sudden became a HOFer?
Don’t know what you are talking about. YOU and MIKE are the only ones talking HOF. I said RIGHT ABOVE we will be watching the next 5 years.
would love to have a player named Jackass on this team instead of athe jackass former coach and gm
Only 1 CB was taken before we took Johnson despite quite a few teams with a critical need at CB. There is going to be a huge run at CB today.
Yeah, there were several CB’s ranked by the consensus higher than Johnson. Obviously, Johnson was their #2 CB ahead of them. I guess they didn’t want to lose out on him.
I didn’t care for the trade up, but we didn’t lose a pick for it.
It is what it is and we got a really good CB.
On NFL.com there were 3 guys ahead of CJ, and one of them was Jermod McCoy who appears to have an injury issue
Here is this list of player remaining. I have no clue what Sully is going to do moving forward.
https://www.nfl.com/draft/tracker/2026/prospects/all_all?page=1&collegeClass=all&status=undrafted
BBMike – Caleb Downs Future HOF
Weird! I can reply, but I can’t do a new post? Test again.
Seems as if you can!
Rock – I wanted to put my usual “NEW BLOG UP” comment this morning and when I put up the new article, the comments were closed on the previous article. WordPress has been doing weird shit
Ahahahahahahahahaha, so true!
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Dolphins: We are going to build from the inside out. Dolphins: Speed gets slow. Big doesn’t change. Dolphins: With the 12th pick, we select Kadyn Proctor, T, Alabama. Fans: WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
LMAO!!!!! So true!
Ok, it seems the issue was sporadic? Let’s try again with what the site would not let me post 3 times. (Spinning wheel, no progression to the posting)
I like Chris Johnson as a player. Shit! I mocked him to us in most of our drafts at 30. (but more often after trading down) why waste the draft capital to move up unnecessarily?
I hate trading up, but they clearly felt like Johnson would go early before they picked at #30. Now I know that’s a very Grier-like move, but they were certainly right about the O-line run
OR they started the O line run by REACHING for a OT that would have been there with a trade up from 30.
They didn’t start it, it started with Fano and Mauigoa, but they read it for sure!
and Chris Grief was SURE that NE was going to trade up above them to take fat Jonah. How did that work out?
PFSN’s mock draft of tonight’s picks.
Round 2, Pick #43: Denzel Boston, WR, Washington
Round 3, Pick #75: Derrick Moore, EDGE, Michigan
Round 3, Pick #87: Genesis Smith, S, Arizona
Round 3, Pick #94: Deion Burks, WR, Oklahoma
I prefer Elijah Sarratt to either of those two WRs. Also not a fan of the double down on WR in the 3rd.
We don’t have #94, we used it in the Chris Johnson trade up
No, we traded #90
Ah yes, correcto!
Rock – Sully isn’t Grier, you have to see what happens here. It’s craziness. They’re two different people, and Sully makes his plan clear, and he’s following it. Did Grier really ever have a plan?
Different people, but from evidence so far same results…
Throw away picks to move up for guys that will still be there. Reach for players.
realistically, we cannot say there is any evidence of the results of Sullys drafts
we are guessing on the results
I think judging now is more bout being jaded (which we all are) as a fan than it is evidence
I see the similar pattern in this sense: we are second guessing the picks, and then hearing people defend the picks
but bc we don’t have the results yet, it’s not really logical to draw a comparison.
the final component of Grier stinking it up, was that the picks actually failed on the field. And that’s the most important part
so we can’t really say “same results” right after the draft. The big result we will judge on may or may not happen
That is not “evidence” that is your opinion.
https://x.com/DolphinsMuse/status/2047492960695025767?s=20
one of the more interesting slides for me was Jermod McCoy especially since we passed on him for a Chris Johnson
I would have thought going into the draft McCoy being available at 30 was a dream and he was in play at 11 based on his pro day
but it turns out he fell out of the first
of course there are injury concerns but it seems like he put questions about his readiness to play away at his pro day. He’s quite a talent
but the thing is: he could have played in his final season at Tennessee – and I think the perception about him making a business decision not to play may have hurt his draft stock