The Miami Dolphins don’t have a first-round choice within the 2023 NFL Draft, making mock draft season pretty boring. Most projections of the league’s annual school prospect allocation course of solely cowl the primary spherical, leaving the Dolphins and not using a choice. On Tuesday, ESPN’s Mel Kiper, Jr., launched his newest 2023 NFL mock draft, and he made a two-round projection, giving us an opportunity to see the Dolphins make a choose.
The 2023 NFL Draft is a three-day course of, with the primary spherical being held on Thursday, April 27. The second and third rounds then happen on Friday, April 28 with the fourth by seventh rounds approaching Saturday, April 29.
That is the fourth mock draft of the yr for Kiper, however this time he goes for 63 picks. This draft projection begins with a run on quarterbacks, with the Carolina Panthers choosing Alabama’s Bryce Younger first, the Houston Texans including Ohio State’s C.J. Stroud, the Tennessee Titans making a commerce to select Florida’s Anthony Richardson third, and the Indianapolis Colts including Kentucky’s Will Levis fourth. The Seattle Seahawks make the fifth, and first non-quarterback, choose of the draft, including Georgia defensive sort out Jalen Carter.
Miami comes on the clock with the 51st total choose, the twentieth choose within the second spherical. The Dolphins use the choose, in response to Kiper, to bolster their offensive line, including TCU’s Steve Avila. Kiper defined the selection, writing:
The Dolphins have simply 4 picks on this draft, two on Day 2 and two on Day 3. I might see them buying and selling all the way down to attempt to add extra. I might see Avila being a great match due to his versatility. He performed each O-line place aside from left sort out in school, seeing most of his time at heart and left guard. Guard is probably going the place he would play for Miami. He’s a powerful run blocker however he had some inconsistent reps in go safety.
Kiper’s thought that Miami might commerce again so as to add further picks would make plenty of sense for the crew. If they don’t make a deal, including an offensive lineman may very well be their transfer right here, probably establishing a contest between Avila and incumbent left guard Liam Eichenberg. Different choices for the Dolphins with this choose may very well be a good finish or a operating again.
The subsequent tight finish to come back off the board in response to Kiper could be Penn State’s Brenton Unusual, going 54th total to the Los Angeles Chargers. The Cincinnati Bengals use the sixtieth choose on this mock so as to add operating again Zach Charbonnet from UCLA, the following operating again to be chosen after Miami’s choose.
Avila is listed because the third guard on Kiper’s “huge board,” his positional rankings of the school prospects accessible within the draft. Unusual is the fifth tight finish, whereas Charbonnet is the fourth-ranked operating again.
Which place makes probably the most sense for the Dolphins to focus on with their first choose within the 2023 NFL Draft? Ought to they be trying towards the offensive line? Do they should attempt to discover the tight finish that completes head coach Mike McDaniel’s offensive scheme? Does a operating again take advantage of sense to take stress off quarterback Tua Tagovailoa? Ought to they be trying elsewhere on the roster?
