The 2023 NFL Draft can be held in Kansas Metropolis from April 27-29. Whereas the Miami Dolphins have had some strong acquisitions in free company, their greatest connection got here through a commerce with the Los Angeles Rams. Listed below are the most effective and worst offseason strikes the Dolphins have made.
Finest | Buying and selling for CB Jalen Ramsey
The Dolphins added a six-time Professional Bowl and three-time All-Professional cornerback in the midst of his prime. It price them only a third-round choose — which that they had acquired from the Patriots — and a backup tight finish.
Ramsey ought to assist bolster a Dolphins go protection that ranked twenty seventh  in yards allowed (234.8 yards per sport) and recorded the fourth-fewest interceptions (eight) final season. Pairing Ramsey with Xavien Howard offers Miami probably the greatest cornerback tandems within the NFL. The duo had a mixed 28 compelled incompletions, 23 go breakups and 6 interceptions in 2022.
Finest | Signing LB David Lengthy Jr.
Overshadowed by Zach Cunningham and Rashaan Evans, Lengthy Jr. was drastically underappreciated for the whole lot he achieved in Tennessee. He constantly dropped into protection and held his personal in doing so, he had 75 or extra tackles every of the final two seasons and he was constantly among the many Titans prime tacklers in run protection.
Miami misplaced main tackler Elandon Roberts (107) to the Pittsburgh Steelers and pairing Lengthy Jr. with Jerome Baker, who totaled 100 tackles and 6 tackles for loss in 2022, permits the Dolphins preserve a strong run-defending duo in the midst of their protection.
Worst | Not enhancing the RB room
Whereas the Dolphins re-signed Raheem Mostert, Jeff Wilson Jr. and Myles Gaskin, who mixed for simply 1,309 dashing yards and 6 touchdowns final season, not one of the above three are a real No. 1 operating again.
David Montgomery, Miles Sanders and Jamaal Williams all signed for comparatively low cost and Ezekiel Elliott, Leonard Fournette and Kareem Hunt stay out there, but the Dolphins didn’t kick the tires on any of them. The workforce wants a real bell cow again able to 20 or extra carries per sport, if solely to assist take among the strain off quarterback Tua Tagovailoa. If Miami goes into the season with the identical RB trio it did final season, it’s doing a terrific disservice to its quarterback.
Worst | Dropping each Mike Gesicki and Hunter Lengthy
Miami managed simply 47 receptions, 491 yards and 6 touchdowns from its tight ends in 2022 and now Durham Smythe and Eric Saubert are the one gamers on the place underneath contract for 2023.
Letting Gesicki hit the open market wouldn’t have been a nasty transfer had Lengthy — who totaled 89 receptions, 1,297 yards and 9 touchdowns at Boston School — transitioned to the beginning job within the fall. Miami solely has 4 draft picks for later in April and the workforce will both have to make use of one on a good finish or head to a meager free agent market to fill the beginning place.
