April 27, 2025 • 26 mins
Travis is back for a review of the Dolphins fifth round pick, Maryland safety Dante Trader Jr., and sixth round pick, running back Ollie Gordon from Oklahoma State. Plus, we’ll explore the themes of the draft and how the Dolphins fortified the trenches with the 2025 draft class.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
What is up Dolphins, and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and on today's show
a couple of more prospect profiles to get to. We're
going to break down two more players the Dolphins drafted
this past weekend, Dante Trader, junior from Maryland and Olie Gordon,
the running back from Oklahoma State. Plus UDFA news coming
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off the wire here, hot and heavy, fast and furious.
Here on a Saturday night. As I record this podcast
from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
This is the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Somebody in the content room just asked me, like it's
over right, they all got to go home, Like, oh,
you have no idea. It is time to get on
the phone for all the udfas and that's what happening
right now for the Dolphins and the entire National Football League.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I'm gonna go ahead and just go over some of.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
The reported signs we've talked to, we've heard about already
on social media, and it happens fast man. UCF cornerback
b J Adams was a guy that's on a thirty
visit down here in Miami. We talked about his tape
a little bit really good man cover skills, finds the football.
He is one of the reported ten names to come
down to Miami. Alabama long snapper Neiland Hibbert on the
list as well. I don't know much about his game.
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Running Back Nate Nole, a Appalachian State and Missouri product,
comes up here for a UDFA to be a UDFA
for the Miami Dolphins. Not familiar with his name and
his game either, to be quite honest. Northwestern's Aj Henning
a wide receiver. Plenty of receivers on this list from Northwestern,
He's part of the group there, and they also get
Missouri's Theo Weez the receiver from Missouri. He was a
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big target for a lot of teams in UDFA, per
Barry Jackson saying that there was a bunch of teams
out for him and the Dolphins won that bidding. Baylor
wide receiver Mona Ray bald Win another big time target there.
And Arkansas wide receiver Andrew Armstrong, who Kyle Krabs text
me right away, Hey, go check out Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
He can flat out play.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
So that's the udfas as of now, and we'll update
this as we go on throughout the week and get
these signings officially confirmed. And again we'll have the great
Emery Hunt on the show to take us through this
and tell you who's going to make the team from
the UDFA list, like he does every single year for
us on the podcast. Maybe I'll come back at the
end of the show here and kind of update you
guys on the rest of the udfas if they get
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more and more announced here ooh, and then here comes
one across the wire that I thought would be a
draft pick sometime on Day three and possibly for the
Miami Dolphins. In fact, I think I think Kyle and
I mocked him to the Dolphins at one point in
the process. Jalen Conyers, the Texas Tech tight end Simon Clancy,
threw up his scouting report a double transfer. Golf loving
Kanyer spent three years at Arizona State before going to
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Oklahoma and settling in a West Texas for the Red Raiders.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
He had some serious talent.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Naturally gifted athlete with small man movement skills, showing the
ability to be a demon after the catch and anything
Tyler Warren can do in terms of ball production. Conyers
is a match chunky as a runner. He plays quarterback
from the wildcat position. Rushed twenty two times from ninety
two yards in a touchdown and threw for a score
against Baylor in twenty twenty three. Had nine point six
yards after the catch. Brock Bowers had eight point seven
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at Georgia in twenty twenty three. Right Simon Clancy from
his draft guide here. Not necessarily a speedy vertical threat,
lacking some snap at the top of his stem, he
still manages to get open consistently against man and displays
soft hands, great ball skills, and short area quicks. Shows
enthusiasm as a pass protector or run blocker in space. So, yeah,
that's a tight end that I thought would get drafted,
and he's a UDFA that apparently will come down here
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to Miami PI reports six foot four, two hundred and
sixty seven pound tight end who's played five years of
college football. Big fan of his game. Let's go ahead
and get into the main meat of the episode.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Here.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Dante Trader Junior, the safety out of Maryland. So on
the film, really good process and anticipation, which you guys
know is the first thing that I always watch for
with any player.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
He moves all.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Over the formation, he carries guys down the scene into
helping coverage. He can peel off and go jump somebody
else's man. You watch him against orgon this last season,
a team that really specializes in their spacing, and then
once they stretched the back end, they wind up running
the ball right down your throat and just take advantage
of all that space when they do space you out.
I thought he looked really composed and in his element
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in that game tape with regards to bouncing around, finding
landmarks and finding his assignments and going through his checklist
on a snap by snap basis. I don't think he
jumps off the tape from a movement standpoint. Here's what
Dane Brugler wrote. His long speed isn't as impressive as
his short area burst, which can lead to coverage lapses
if his reads are not on point, And that tracks
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from what I've seen both on tape and the testing metrics.
Will get to that here in just a second. But
you see his aggression and his preparation aid him and
making those plays. It's like in any sport, the best
players are gifted and hard workers. They're both gifted and
hard workers, but a lot of guys are great at
one of the two, and for Trader, if he wants
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to get there, he probably has to do it through
continuing to excel with his ability to process.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
The Maryland staff praised him for being one of the
hardest workers on the team, which there you go. So
it sounds like, you know, desire and will won't be
a problem. And that tracks across his tape too. He
gets on his horse, he pursues plays with full effort,
even if it's probably going to end before he arrives.
I'm always a big fan of just putting effort on tape,
even if you're pretty sure it's not going to have
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an impact, because there's gonna be one play in a
season where you get there and maybe the ball finds
you and you get to take away and you can
turn that game and turn your season around because of
that constant effort. It's always about running to the football man.
That's how you make plays, got to make things happen.
He does that stuff. He just looks like a pro
to me in the way he preps and plays. As
a result of that prep. Brugler wrote that one scout
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told him he's already a pro. The type of dude
that has motivational quotes on post it notes on his
mirrors in his crib. Now, while he's maybe not the
best track star in the world, I do think that
he's very efficient with his movement in terms of not
having false steps and not taking himself out of the
play by poor reeds that get himself over extend. We
talk about false steps all the time on the show.
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I don't see a lot of false steps in his game.
His clicking clothes is sharp, like he's fundamentally sound, and
he has functional range from the post. Even if I
think he does play better in the box, I think
that he plays a lot faster than he tested his
fit here in Miami. I think his ticket is going
to be through special teams right away, and I'd be
surprised if he doesn't excel with that relatively quickly. I
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think he could be a third safety type, someone you
insert down in the box, ask him to run the alley,
and if he puts it all together and matures into
his game, he could be a signal caller on the
back end for you. But I think that his ability
to see the field in multiple coverage structures, perhaps as
a robber type there's roles within this defense that will
benefit a well studied player like Dante Trader Junior. Now,
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while the desire to do it is great, you still
have to execute that a pro because I think one
of the things that we kind of fall into a
trap as fans or draft analyst or anything in between,
is like, oh, well, he's got talent and he works hard,
therefore he's going to work out.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
But it's not always. That's not always how it works.
I mean, I'll never.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Forget being head over heels about John Beck because there
was a story about him and his wife going grocery
shopping and she had all the plays on flash cards
and would quiz him in test and it's like that
sounds great, but like it didn't matter because he wasn't
able to play the position at a high enough level.
So like, it all sounds great and it's all good,
and you have to have it. It's a requisite to
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be in this position, but it doesn't always guarantee success.
That's probably one of the biggest things I've learned in
the whole like process, I've tried to learn how to
be a scout. Statistics and advanced metrics. He played twenty
two hundred and fifteen snaps over four years. Another guy
that started and finished at the same school. That's a
rarity these days. He played a ton of snaps on
special teams as a freshman and a lot less after
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that after he became a starter eight hundred and thirteen
snaps total as a sophomore on defense seven hundred and
twenty twenty three, and then he missed some time last
year and played five hundred and seventy eight stats. But
he wasn't every downplayer when he was healthy. He still
played eighty six total snaps on special teams last year
and five hundred and twenty three across his college career,
and I think he'll find a calling card in that
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role in the National Football League. He wasn't called upon
to blitz very much, just twenty four times over four years,
producing nine QB pressures. He made one hundred and fifty
eight total tackles, thirty nine stops. That's when you get
a stop that is a win for the defense, less
than forty percent of the yards on first down, less
than fifty percent of the yards on second down, and
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a not a first down on third and fourth down.
So thirty nine stops and he held opposing receivers to
a fifty six percent completion rate. PFF charged him with
seven touchdowns allowed, but five career picks and twenty total
passes defense. His passer rating allowed was eighty one point six,
and he surrendered just six hundred and ninety four receiving
yards on twelve one hundred coverage snaps. And that's not
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the same thing as the cornerback stat I gave you
guys on Jason Marshall the other day, but it's a
pretty good number there for him. He's five eleven one
ninety six thirty one inch vertical, nine to nine broad jump,
four three two shuttle, and seven to nine to three cone.
All of that is like average to below average. The
sizes is below average, the vertical is below average, the
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shuttle and three corner right around average.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
But he's just not a big time tester.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I do think his tape shows a better athlete than
his testing did, even though it's not the calling card
of his game background. He's a son of a football
player and track star at Wittier Winner University. I think
I got that right, and a football coach later on
after he played who introduced his son to the game
at a young age. His mother was a teacher who
inspired Trader to create backpack drives and other initiatives to
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help kids with their education. He played football, basketball, and lacrosse.
In fact, he played lacrosse in college. He was a
freshman starter at quarterback and played wide out in dB
In high school. He played only football his freshman year
at Maryland, but joined the lacrosse team as a sophomore,
scoring five goals that year, enforcing fourteen turnovers. I don't
know what that means. Is that good lacrosse players? You
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can tell me. I assume it is. He was twice
an academic All Big Ten member and he played at
the Senior Bowl this past February.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
That is Dante Trader, junior fifth round draft pick for
your Miami Dolphins. Let's go ahead and pause for a
quick commercial break. Come back on the other side. Going
to be a quicker podcast for you guys today and
talk about running back Ollie Gordon from Oklahoma State. That's
next Draft time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to
you by Autoation. Now this one might be the one
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that I'm most fired up to break down from this
third day beyond Jordan Phillips and it's running back Alli
Gordon from Oklahoma State. Because I think that there is
really high end potential with this player. So the film,
to me, it starts in pass protection, which you know,
if you're a running back, and that's where you start.
It says a lot about your game and your mindset.
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I guess with how you play the football, how you play,
how you play the football, how you play the game.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
It's late, man, it's been a long weekend.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
That's where he jumps off the screen to me, and
it's like, there's this great you know, there's great natural
reps where he absorbs contact, sinks the hips into the
ground and puts his cleats in the turf and regenerates
force back into the rusher. But there are also clips
where I'm trying to think of the best way to
describe this. Have you guys seen that video where the
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dude has this cat and he like puts him in
front of a hockey net and then like flicks balls
towards him and the cat like makes these these diving saves,
like full extension laying out saves.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
That's what Allie Gordon's pass protection reminds me.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Of like he can dive back across the formation and
get a piece of a shoulder pad and declete a
rusher like it's it's kind of it's kind of crazy.
It's a highlight reel of hits where he can lay
them out and do it in the last second and
not have his feet underneath him and just find a
way to get the job done, or just straight up
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stay in there with good technique and fundamentals as everything
plays out the way it's supposed to and drawn up
and just get under a guy's chinch trap and jack
him up that way and put him on his butt
and he runs that way too. There's a ton of wiggle.
There's not a ton of wiggle. I should say to
his running style, you know, like, you know what you're getting.
It's downhill business decision in the gap. Meet me their
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Oklahoma drill style.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Mono E mono.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Let's see what you got, big dog, and we'll get
into all the stats with the yards off for contact.
But physical, physical nature, that's the name of his game.
I think that he and Alexander Madison have similar play
styles and could compete for reps in what's all of
a sudden a pretty deep running back room that has
multiple skill sets, but man, the best part of his
game is his forward lean. I know you guys remember
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Layah linear yardage accumulation, Mike McDaniel's phraseology for Raheem Moster.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
That's what Alli Gordon does.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
He can attack half the man as a runner and
find a way to basically not have to go through
their entire like core structure of their body, and get
behind a super powerful leg drive and push you backwards.
Best of all, I really like the way he makes
poorly blocked plays turn into something positive when we talked
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about that in the podcast this offseason, Like Dolphins had
way too many negative runs last year was a big
reason why we thought they got behind the chains and
had some offensive drive stall out. But a player like this,
when it's not blocked well, and I think it'll be
blocked a lot better in twenty twenty five based upon
what you had on the person on the offensive line.
But when it's not blocked well, sometimes you need it
running back to save you. And I think that Ali
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Gordon is very capable of doing that, much like Alexander
Madison's tape, where it's something that's essential to his game.
Essential trait to what makes him, you know, a viable
option with that forward lean. So I think that that's that,
and then also it's an essential part of like the
screen game as well. Like the thing I like most
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is when he does get through that initial line with
his surge, he really gets up to to high speed
or top speed and can destroy angles from that position.
And when you can do that at his size and
his strength, like good luck to any dB trying to
catch him and get him to the ground. You might
catch him, but then you gotta tackle him too. And
I love the idea of finding a way to get
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him on the field for short yardage. And then he
breaks one tackle and all of a sudden, it's like, oh,
this isn't just a you know, Brandon Jacobs type that's
gonna get ten yards because he sprung one, he could
go for seventy yards in a touchdown, not just a
first down, but a touchdown. As far as the fit,
I think he's versed enough as a zone runner. He's
patient to stretch things out and builds to speed. I
don't think he's gonna be the guy that finds that
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deep windback laying the way like Devon eh Chan does,
But who is Devon Hchan besides Devon h Chan. But
he sets up his blocks, he reads them well, and
then makes a quick decision to get through. The twenty
twenty three tape is a lot better and I think
a better example of what he does. And there was
a great question his Zoom press conference about how a
scout had said not a scout a Pundit was like,
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don't even watch twenty twenty four tape. He was kind
of putting some bad So if you're doing the same thing,
go back to twenty twenty three and based on that tape,
like you're probably talking about a Day two pick if
you're going off of that tape. So tons of potential
upside here. For me, I think that he's you know,
he's got the patience to make the good decisions, to
create good angles, tons of potential and upsides. It's hard
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to say what he is as a receiver because he
was mostly asked to just do stuff within the screen game.
But he didn't drop a single pass last season. For
what that's worth, I would venture to guess that because
of his play style and body type, he's not likely.
I try to do this, you know, carefully, because like
you don't want a pigeonhole guy, but just persona based
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or like you know, perception based. I don't think he's
likely to flex out and run routes like Devon h Chan,
but he can catch the ball on the flat and
then inflict punishment on cornerbacks around the edge. The fit
here he kind of already covered that. I feel like
he's competition for Alexander Madison in a lot of ways.
He's different than what we have on the roster in
terms of his build, his history of skis and system
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and overall play style. But I think that's a good thing.
And brother, when you can pass pro like that and
you're effective in short yardage, that's a great way to
get yourself on the field for third downs. I also
think he can be a special teams contributor for a
lot of the same reasons we just talked about, namely
the effort and desire and will to play the game.
His stats in advanced Metrics he had six hundred and
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fourteen yards after initial contact last year. That was twentieth
most among college backs. He had eighty six runs in
zone one on one in gap scheme, and that was
a pretty similar split across his whole college career, so
more man scheme than zone scheme. Twenty nine hundred twenty
rushing yards, twenty nine hundred twenty rushing yards at a
career average of four point five a pop. Checked that
five point four a pop dyslexic moment. There. He averaged
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three point four to seven yards after initial contact, with
one hundred and twenty five miss tackles forced over his
career at Oklahoma State. Seventy three runs of ten plus
yards in his career, forty four runs of fifteen plus yards,
and he ran for one hundred and forty two first downs.
He also gained six hundred and seventeen yards through the
air and scored forty total touchdowns thirty six rushing for receiving.
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He had sixty eight misstackles forced in that crazy twenty
three season, with one thousand and fifty six yards after
initial contact. My goodness, pretty impressive. His measurable six foot two,
two hundred and twenty five pounds. Those are ninety six
and ninetieth percent tile of running backs. He is a
large human being for six to one forty yard dash,
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fifty third percent tile, thirty four and a half inch
vertical sixty second percent tile, and then he had a
ten flat broad jump that was seventy second percent tile.
So he's big and he's explosive.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Man.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
He averaged nine this is his background. Averaged nine point
nine yards per carry as a senior in high school.
Senior high school football stats are hilarious to me. He
was the Doke Walker Winner award winner in twenty twenty
two as a as a.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Freshman red shirt freshman.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Then he piled up over two thousand yards from scrimmage
as a junior in twenty twenty three and or a sophomore.
He grew up idolizing Derek Henry even though he was
a middle school quarterback, but he saw himself as a
Cam Newton type. He went to Trinity High School in Texas.
That's the same high school as Cater Kohu. I think
the best part is that he was a prime candidate
for the transfer portal after twenty twenty three, but returned
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to Oklahoma State despite some changes on the coaching staff
and a role changed there a little bit. He also
finished out that season playing in the bowl game, where
so many players opted out from doing that. Down the stretch,
he said, quote my mama always taught me that you
finish what you start. Who would I be to give
up on my team because our season is not going
the way I wanted it to. I could have gave
up last year, but our season was going good. Just
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because our season is not going good how it's supposed
to go, I'm supposed to give up now.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
End quote.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
So another player that finished his college career where it began.
So let's go ahead and take a break right there,
come back on the other side and recap this with
the entire draft and talk about what the initial thoughts
are from this draft. That's next podcast, your host, Travis Wingfield,
brought to you by AUNT Nation once again to recap
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the Miami Dolphins twenty twenty five NFL Draft Class number
thirteen defensive tackle Kenneth Grant from Michigan, number two thirty
seven overall offensive lineman Jonah Savoya, and Aya.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
We're gonna get that down pat here soon. I promise
you guys.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
That fifth round, third pick for the Miami Dolphins, one
hundred and forty three overall defensive tackle Jordan Phillips out
of Maryland. Fifth round, one fifty overall cornerback Jason Marshall
junior from Florida. Fifth round again one fifty five overall
safety Dante Trader Junior from Maryland. In the sixth round,
one seventy nine overall running back all The Gordon from
Oklahoma State, and then the two guys will break down
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on the show tomorrow. Two seventh round draft picks quarterback
Quinn you Were from Texas picked two to thirty one
overall and two fifty three overall defensive tackle Zeke Biggers
from Georgia Tech. And you come away with that with
an extra third round pick for next year, the Dolphins
could be potentially looking at all kinds of additional picks,
with a possible fourth round compensatory pick coming from the
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result of this year's free agency class. With Javon Holland's departure.
There's some debate about whether or not they're qualifying for that,
but that's a debate for down the road. But it's
a possibility Mimi gets a compensitory pick back for Javon Holland.
And if Anthony Weaver does get plucked on the hiring
cycle this time around, which I would I think he
will because he deserves it and he's ready for it,
that would also kick back two third rounders to the
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Miami Dolphins in twenty twenty six and twenty twenty seven.
But man, what was our theme on the show here
all draft season and all off season. This is a
meat and potatoes class. The Dolphins have the pieces on
the perimeter and in the premium positions at quarterback, receiver,
edge tackle. Obviously, corner was a need, and we heard
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Chris Greer say several times they've been in touch with
some of the free agents. They're confident about getting a
deal done with those guys here, whether it's sooner or later.
But the needs were down the middle right. They signed
a bunch of linebackers and safeties, They signed annuals. They
draft Grant seven, Jonah as well as Jordan Phillips the
top three picks. They do get some, They do get
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two defensive backs. They get an absolute hammer at running
back who completes every imaginable style of running back. Now
in that room, Man, I just for a team that
has this narrative about them down the stretch late in
the season, for a team that is criticized for their
lack of investment in the trenches, and for a team
that has identified issues at the end of previous seasons
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and attacked them and talked about, you know, sustaining drives
last year, and they got much better at that. To me,
this draft and this offseason exemplifies a team that wasn't
too rigid in their original beliefs. We're not going to
be stubborn and go down with the ship that way,
they were able to self assess and come back with
this altered approach. My buddy Brett Coleman from the Bootleg
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Football podcast, the NFL Film Room, the stuff for NFL
Network and NFL Media and the Chargers and all kinds
of stuff. Last year he picked us to miss the
play and I was like, Hey, what gives like this
is a pretty good football team.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Why do you predict that?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
And he said it was lack of depth in the
trenches and I said, well, yeah, I mean the reason
we did miss was because our quarterback missed six and
a half games.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
But I digress.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Now. The reason I bring this up is because Brett
came back this year and said that he thinks we
killed the draft. And it's not like we lost any
of the sizzle, right, any of the dazzle on offense.
You still have that those two receivers. You still have
Devon ah Chan, still have that quarterback back there, you
still have John OUs Smith, you add Nick Westbrook Akine,
you add the offensive line, like, look, I'm not gonna
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sit here and guarantee you they're gonna win thirteen games.
But they've given themselves a chance, right, They've afforded themselves
an opportunity to change that narrative. But could they get
that power run game going that makes them, you know,
feared in multiple ways. It makes teams play on their
back foot. You have the same weapons, you have again
the same quarterback. So if you add this power element
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and you get teams on their back foot, and you
forced safeties to come down, and you get teams out
of those umbrella coverages, maybe this is you know, the
off season that allows you to marry that vertical game
with a balanced run game and open up short spaces
to truly make the defense defend every blade of grass.
And now we've got to worry about how do I
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set my edge against this this power run game. How
do I contend with the speed of Devon a Channon space?
How do I you know, contend with that? And then
the vertical passing game of tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle
and then concern myself with the screen game to John
hus Smith, you know, like or Jalen Conyers, if he
finds himself in that role, I just I can't get over.
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I can't get over three hundred and twenty seven pound
James Daniels, three hundred and thirty pound Larry Borum, which
are two guys that were would have been the biggest
interior guys in the offensive line last year. And of
course Borham can play tackle as well, that's actually probably
his primary position. But and by the way, if it
is Daniels and and Jonah wins the job at guard's well,
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Borim and eichenbergers potential backups, it's pretty good. I like
Liam as a seventh three eighth offensive liman. I like
borhim as a swing tackle and a swing interior guy.
But then you know two hundred and twenty pound free
agent back, two hundred and twenty five pound rookie running back,
two hundred and seventy pound blocking tight end, a two
hundred and fifteen pound receiver that wants to bury you
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in the running game in the red zone, a three
hundred and forty pound nose tackle that has the quicks
to play three technique, a three hundred and twenty pound
three technique that has the chops to play nose tackle.
kJ Britt As an enforcer, Willie Gay is not like
a big time power player, but his electricity off the
line of scrimmage. That'll that'll pair. That'll do right with
those those bigger guys. The way, if I Mela fam
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who plays the game one hundred miles an hour, I
am here for this seemingly obvious philosophical shift they made
this offseason and the part that gets me just pumped
up for camp. And look, if you can't get excited
about a new football season, maybe it's time to find
a new hobby. I don't know, because I see people
saying I'm not excited about training camp and all that,
But like, man, I want the whole part about football
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is how they envision their issues, how they go about
fixing them, and how they play it out on Sundays,
and how they put together in training camp. Like that's
what gets me fired up. I just can't wait to
see how this new concept or you know, the perception
of this new vision of how to build the football
team of twenty twenty five how that marries up with
old concepts. And I'm not telling you at all, by
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any stretch that I want to ditch the old concepts,
because everything that we do or used to do, led
to the number one scoring offense in the NFL just
one year ago.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
But I want to see how you can.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Marry that with the brute physicality you've added to your
personnel on both sides of the ball. And I want
to see what that makes us look like on the
road in bad weather, when we're notin in five and
playing an important game the week before Christmas. That's the
ten thousand foot view. We're going to do a roster reset.
I think on Thursday or Friday. We'll see what it
looks like. I am undecided, but tomorrow the final two picks,
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the seventh round draft picks, Zeke Biggers and Quinn Yours
will do that and do a heavy SoundBite round up
and get you guys some clips from the players press
conferences over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
All of that and a heck of a lot more.
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What is up Dolphins, and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and on today's show
a couple of more prospect profiles to get to. We're
going to break down two more players the Dolphins drafted
this past weekend, Dante Trader, junior from Maryland and Olie Gordon,
the running back from Oklahoma State. Plus UDFA news coming
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off the wire here, hot and heavy, fast and furious.
Here on a Saturday night. As I record this podcast
from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
This is the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Somebody in the content room just asked me, like it's
over right, they all got to go home, Like, oh,
you have no idea. It is time to get on
the phone for all the udfas and that's what happening
right now for the Dolphins and the entire National Football League.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I'm gonna go ahead and just go over some of.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
The reported signs we've talked to, we've heard about already
on social media, and it happens fast man. UCF cornerback
b J Adams was a guy that's on a thirty
visit down here in Miami. We talked about his tape
a little bit really good man cover skills, finds the football.
He is one of the reported ten names to come
down to Miami. Alabama long snapper Neiland Hibbert on the
list as well. I don't know much about his game.
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Running Back Nate Nole, a Appalachian State and Missouri product,
comes up here for a UDFA to be a UDFA
for the Miami Dolphins. Not familiar with his name and
his game either, to be quite honest. Northwestern's Aj Henning
a wide receiver. Plenty of receivers on this list from Northwestern,
He's part of the group there, and they also get
Missouri's Theo Weez the receiver from Missouri. He was a
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big target for a lot of teams in UDFA, per
Barry Jackson saying that there was a bunch of teams
out for him and the Dolphins won that bidding. Baylor
wide receiver Mona Ray bald Win another big time target there.
And Arkansas wide receiver Andrew Armstrong, who Kyle Krabs text
me right away, Hey, go check out Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
He can flat out play.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
So that's the udfas as of now, and we'll update
this as we go on throughout the week and get
these signings officially confirmed. And again we'll have the great
Emery Hunt on the show to take us through this
and tell you who's going to make the team from
the UDFA list, like he does every single year for
us on the podcast. Maybe I'll come back at the
end of the show here and kind of update you
guys on the rest of the udfas if they get
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more and more announced here ooh, and then here comes
one across the wire that I thought would be a
draft pick sometime on Day three and possibly for the
Miami Dolphins. In fact, I think I think Kyle and
I mocked him to the Dolphins at one point in
the process. Jalen Conyers, the Texas Tech tight end Simon Clancy,
threw up his scouting report a double transfer. Golf loving
Kanyer spent three years at Arizona State before going to
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Oklahoma and settling in a West Texas for the Red Raiders.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
He had some serious talent.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Naturally gifted athlete with small man movement skills, showing the
ability to be a demon after the catch and anything
Tyler Warren can do in terms of ball production. Conyers
is a match chunky as a runner. He plays quarterback
from the wildcat position. Rushed twenty two times from ninety
two yards in a touchdown and threw for a score
against Baylor in twenty twenty three. Had nine point six
yards after the catch. Brock Bowers had eight point seven
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at Georgia in twenty twenty three. Right Simon Clancy from
his draft guide here. Not necessarily a speedy vertical threat,
lacking some snap at the top of his stem, he
still manages to get open consistently against man and displays
soft hands, great ball skills, and short area quicks. Shows
enthusiasm as a pass protector or run blocker in space. So, yeah,
that's a tight end that I thought would get drafted,
and he's a UDFA that apparently will come down here
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to Miami PI reports six foot four, two hundred and
sixty seven pound tight end who's played five years of
college football. Big fan of his game. Let's go ahead
and get into the main meat of the episode.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Here.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Dante Trader Junior, the safety out of Maryland. So on
the film, really good process and anticipation, which you guys
know is the first thing that I always watch for
with any player.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
He moves all.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Over the formation, he carries guys down the scene into
helping coverage. He can peel off and go jump somebody
else's man. You watch him against orgon this last season,
a team that really specializes in their spacing, and then
once they stretched the back end, they wind up running
the ball right down your throat and just take advantage
of all that space when they do space you out.
I thought he looked really composed and in his element
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in that game tape with regards to bouncing around, finding
landmarks and finding his assignments and going through his checklist
on a snap by snap basis. I don't think he
jumps off the tape from a movement standpoint. Here's what
Dane Brugler wrote. His long speed isn't as impressive as
his short area burst, which can lead to coverage lapses
if his reads are not on point, And that tracks
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from what I've seen both on tape and the testing metrics.
Will get to that here in just a second. But
you see his aggression and his preparation aid him and
making those plays. It's like in any sport, the best
players are gifted and hard workers. They're both gifted and
hard workers, but a lot of guys are great at
one of the two, and for Trader, if he wants
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to get there, he probably has to do it through
continuing to excel with his ability to process.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
The Maryland staff praised him for being one of the
hardest workers on the team, which there you go. So
it sounds like, you know, desire and will won't be
a problem. And that tracks across his tape too. He
gets on his horse, he pursues plays with full effort,
even if it's probably going to end before he arrives.
I'm always a big fan of just putting effort on tape,
even if you're pretty sure it's not going to have
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an impact, because there's gonna be one play in a
season where you get there and maybe the ball finds
you and you get to take away and you can
turn that game and turn your season around because of
that constant effort. It's always about running to the football man.
That's how you make plays, got to make things happen.
He does that stuff. He just looks like a pro
to me in the way he preps and plays. As
a result of that prep. Brugler wrote that one scout
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told him he's already a pro. The type of dude
that has motivational quotes on post it notes on his
mirrors in his crib. Now, while he's maybe not the
best track star in the world, I do think that
he's very efficient with his movement in terms of not
having false steps and not taking himself out of the
play by poor reeds that get himself over extend. We
talk about false steps all the time on the show.
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I don't see a lot of false steps in his game.
His clicking clothes is sharp, like he's fundamentally sound, and
he has functional range from the post. Even if I
think he does play better in the box, I think
that he plays a lot faster than he tested his
fit here in Miami. I think his ticket is going
to be through special teams right away, and I'd be
surprised if he doesn't excel with that relatively quickly. I
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think he could be a third safety type, someone you
insert down in the box, ask him to run the alley,
and if he puts it all together and matures into
his game, he could be a signal caller on the
back end for you. But I think that his ability
to see the field in multiple coverage structures, perhaps as
a robber type there's roles within this defense that will
benefit a well studied player like Dante Trader Junior. Now,
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while the desire to do it is great, you still
have to execute that a pro because I think one
of the things that we kind of fall into a
trap as fans or draft analyst or anything in between,
is like, oh, well, he's got talent and he works hard,
therefore he's going to work out.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
But it's not always. That's not always how it works.
I mean, I'll never.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Forget being head over heels about John Beck because there
was a story about him and his wife going grocery
shopping and she had all the plays on flash cards
and would quiz him in test and it's like that
sounds great, but like it didn't matter because he wasn't
able to play the position at a high enough level.
So like, it all sounds great and it's all good,
and you have to have it. It's a requisite to
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be in this position, but it doesn't always guarantee success.
That's probably one of the biggest things I've learned in
the whole like process, I've tried to learn how to
be a scout. Statistics and advanced metrics. He played twenty
two hundred and fifteen snaps over four years. Another guy
that started and finished at the same school. That's a
rarity these days. He played a ton of snaps on
special teams as a freshman and a lot less after
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that after he became a starter eight hundred and thirteen
snaps total as a sophomore on defense seven hundred and
twenty twenty three, and then he missed some time last
year and played five hundred and seventy eight stats. But
he wasn't every downplayer when he was healthy. He still
played eighty six total snaps on special teams last year
and five hundred and twenty three across his college career,
and I think he'll find a calling card in that
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role in the National Football League. He wasn't called upon
to blitz very much, just twenty four times over four years,
producing nine QB pressures. He made one hundred and fifty
eight total tackles, thirty nine stops. That's when you get
a stop that is a win for the defense, less
than forty percent of the yards on first down, less
than fifty percent of the yards on second down, and
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a not a first down on third and fourth down.
So thirty nine stops and he held opposing receivers to
a fifty six percent completion rate. PFF charged him with
seven touchdowns allowed, but five career picks and twenty total
passes defense. His passer rating allowed was eighty one point six,
and he surrendered just six hundred and ninety four receiving
yards on twelve one hundred coverage snaps. And that's not
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the same thing as the cornerback stat I gave you
guys on Jason Marshall the other day, but it's a
pretty good number there for him. He's five eleven one
ninety six thirty one inch vertical, nine to nine broad jump,
four three two shuttle, and seven to nine to three cone.
All of that is like average to below average. The
sizes is below average, the vertical is below average, the
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shuttle and three corner right around average.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
But he's just not a big time tester.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I do think his tape shows a better athlete than
his testing did, even though it's not the calling card
of his game background. He's a son of a football
player and track star at Wittier Winner University. I think
I got that right, and a football coach later on
after he played who introduced his son to the game
at a young age. His mother was a teacher who
inspired Trader to create backpack drives and other initiatives to
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help kids with their education. He played football, basketball, and lacrosse.
In fact, he played lacrosse in college. He was a
freshman starter at quarterback and played wide out in dB
In high school. He played only football his freshman year
at Maryland, but joined the lacrosse team as a sophomore,
scoring five goals that year, enforcing fourteen turnovers. I don't
know what that means. Is that good lacrosse players? You
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can tell me. I assume it is. He was twice
an academic All Big Ten member and he played at
the Senior Bowl this past February.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
That is Dante Trader, junior fifth round draft pick for
your Miami Dolphins. Let's go ahead and pause for a
quick commercial break. Come back on the other side. Going
to be a quicker podcast for you guys today and
talk about running back Ollie Gordon from Oklahoma State. That's
next Draft time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to
you by Autoation. Now this one might be the one
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that I'm most fired up to break down from this
third day beyond Jordan Phillips and it's running back Alli
Gordon from Oklahoma State. Because I think that there is
really high end potential with this player. So the film,
to me, it starts in pass protection, which you know,
if you're a running back, and that's where you start.
It says a lot about your game and your mindset.
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I guess with how you play the football, how you play,
how you play the football, how you play the game.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
It's late, man, it's been a long weekend.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
That's where he jumps off the screen to me, and
it's like, there's this great you know, there's great natural
reps where he absorbs contact, sinks the hips into the
ground and puts his cleats in the turf and regenerates
force back into the rusher. But there are also clips
where I'm trying to think of the best way to
describe this. Have you guys seen that video where the
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dude has this cat and he like puts him in
front of a hockey net and then like flicks balls
towards him and the cat like makes these these diving saves,
like full extension laying out saves.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
That's what Allie Gordon's pass protection reminds me.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Of like he can dive back across the formation and
get a piece of a shoulder pad and declete a
rusher like it's it's kind of it's kind of crazy.
It's a highlight reel of hits where he can lay
them out and do it in the last second and
not have his feet underneath him and just find a
way to get the job done, or just straight up
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stay in there with good technique and fundamentals as everything
plays out the way it's supposed to and drawn up
and just get under a guy's chinch trap and jack
him up that way and put him on his butt
and he runs that way too. There's a ton of wiggle.
There's not a ton of wiggle. I should say to
his running style, you know, like, you know what you're getting.
It's downhill business decision in the gap. Meet me their
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Oklahoma drill style.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Mono E mono.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Let's see what you got, big dog, and we'll get
into all the stats with the yards off for contact.
But physical, physical nature, that's the name of his game.
I think that he and Alexander Madison have similar play
styles and could compete for reps in what's all of
a sudden a pretty deep running back room that has
multiple skill sets, but man, the best part of his
game is his forward lean. I know you guys remember
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Layah linear yardage accumulation, Mike McDaniel's phraseology for Raheem Moster.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
That's what Alli Gordon does.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
He can attack half the man as a runner and
find a way to basically not have to go through
their entire like core structure of their body, and get
behind a super powerful leg drive and push you backwards.
Best of all, I really like the way he makes
poorly blocked plays turn into something positive when we talked
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about that in the podcast this offseason, Like Dolphins had
way too many negative runs last year was a big
reason why we thought they got behind the chains and
had some offensive drive stall out. But a player like this,
when it's not blocked well, and I think it'll be
blocked a lot better in twenty twenty five based upon
what you had on the person on the offensive line.
But when it's not blocked well, sometimes you need it
running back to save you. And I think that Ali
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Gordon is very capable of doing that, much like Alexander
Madison's tape, where it's something that's essential to his game.
Essential trait to what makes him, you know, a viable
option with that forward lean. So I think that that's that,
and then also it's an essential part of like the
screen game as well. Like the thing I like most
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is when he does get through that initial line with
his surge, he really gets up to to high speed
or top speed and can destroy angles from that position.
And when you can do that at his size and
his strength, like good luck to any dB trying to
catch him and get him to the ground. You might
catch him, but then you gotta tackle him too. And
I love the idea of finding a way to get
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him on the field for short yardage. And then he
breaks one tackle and all of a sudden, it's like, oh,
this isn't just a you know, Brandon Jacobs type that's
gonna get ten yards because he sprung one, he could
go for seventy yards in a touchdown, not just a
first down, but a touchdown. As far as the fit,
I think he's versed enough as a zone runner. He's
patient to stretch things out and builds to speed. I
don't think he's gonna be the guy that finds that
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deep windback laying the way like Devon eh Chan does,
But who is Devon Hchan besides Devon h Chan. But
he sets up his blocks, he reads them well, and
then makes a quick decision to get through. The twenty
twenty three tape is a lot better and I think
a better example of what he does. And there was
a great question his Zoom press conference about how a
scout had said not a scout a Pundit was like,
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don't even watch twenty twenty four tape. He was kind
of putting some bad So if you're doing the same thing,
go back to twenty twenty three and based on that tape,
like you're probably talking about a Day two pick if
you're going off of that tape. So tons of potential
upside here. For me, I think that he's you know,
he's got the patience to make the good decisions, to
create good angles, tons of potential and upsides. It's hard
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to say what he is as a receiver because he
was mostly asked to just do stuff within the screen game.
But he didn't drop a single pass last season. For
what that's worth, I would venture to guess that because
of his play style and body type, he's not likely.
I try to do this, you know, carefully, because like
you don't want a pigeonhole guy, but just persona based
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or like you know, perception based. I don't think he's
likely to flex out and run routes like Devon h Chan,
but he can catch the ball on the flat and
then inflict punishment on cornerbacks around the edge. The fit
here he kind of already covered that. I feel like
he's competition for Alexander Madison in a lot of ways.
He's different than what we have on the roster in
terms of his build, his history of skis and system
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and overall play style. But I think that's a good thing.
And brother, when you can pass pro like that and
you're effective in short yardage, that's a great way to
get yourself on the field for third downs. I also
think he can be a special teams contributor for a
lot of the same reasons we just talked about, namely
the effort and desire and will to play the game.
His stats in advanced Metrics he had six hundred and
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fourteen yards after initial contact last year. That was twentieth
most among college backs. He had eighty six runs in
zone one on one in gap scheme, and that was
a pretty similar split across his whole college career, so
more man scheme than zone scheme. Twenty nine hundred twenty
rushing yards, twenty nine hundred twenty rushing yards at a
career average of four point five a pop. Checked that
five point four a pop dyslexic moment. There. He averaged
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three point four to seven yards after initial contact, with
one hundred and twenty five miss tackles forced over his
career at Oklahoma State. Seventy three runs of ten plus
yards in his career, forty four runs of fifteen plus yards,
and he ran for one hundred and forty two first downs.
He also gained six hundred and seventeen yards through the
air and scored forty total touchdowns thirty six rushing for receiving.
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He had sixty eight misstackles forced in that crazy twenty
three season, with one thousand and fifty six yards after
initial contact. My goodness, pretty impressive. His measurable six foot two,
two hundred and twenty five pounds. Those are ninety six
and ninetieth percent tile of running backs. He is a
large human being for six to one forty yard dash,
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fifty third percent tile, thirty four and a half inch
vertical sixty second percent tile, and then he had a
ten flat broad jump that was seventy second percent tile.
So he's big and he's explosive.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Man.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
He averaged nine this is his background. Averaged nine point
nine yards per carry as a senior in high school.
Senior high school football stats are hilarious to me. He
was the Doke Walker Winner award winner in twenty twenty
two as a as a.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Freshman red shirt freshman.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Then he piled up over two thousand yards from scrimmage
as a junior in twenty twenty three and or a sophomore.
He grew up idolizing Derek Henry even though he was
a middle school quarterback, but he saw himself as a
Cam Newton type. He went to Trinity High School in Texas.
That's the same high school as Cater Kohu. I think
the best part is that he was a prime candidate
for the transfer portal after twenty twenty three, but returned
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to Oklahoma State despite some changes on the coaching staff
and a role changed there a little bit. He also
finished out that season playing in the bowl game, where
so many players opted out from doing that. Down the stretch,
he said, quote my mama always taught me that you
finish what you start. Who would I be to give
up on my team because our season is not going
the way I wanted it to. I could have gave
up last year, but our season was going good. Just
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because our season is not going good how it's supposed
to go, I'm supposed to give up now.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
End quote.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
So another player that finished his college career where it began.
So let's go ahead and take a break right there,
come back on the other side and recap this with
the entire draft and talk about what the initial thoughts
are from this draft. That's next podcast, your host, Travis Wingfield,
brought to you by AUNT Nation once again to recap
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the Miami Dolphins twenty twenty five NFL Draft Class number
thirteen defensive tackle Kenneth Grant from Michigan, number two thirty
seven overall offensive lineman Jonah Savoya, and Aya.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
We're gonna get that down pat here soon. I promise
you guys.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
That fifth round, third pick for the Miami Dolphins, one
hundred and forty three overall defensive tackle Jordan Phillips out
of Maryland. Fifth round, one fifty overall cornerback Jason Marshall
junior from Florida. Fifth round again one fifty five overall
safety Dante Trader Junior from Maryland. In the sixth round,
one seventy nine overall running back all The Gordon from
Oklahoma State, and then the two guys will break down
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on the show tomorrow. Two seventh round draft picks quarterback
Quinn you Were from Texas picked two to thirty one
overall and two fifty three overall defensive tackle Zeke Biggers
from Georgia Tech. And you come away with that with
an extra third round pick for next year, the Dolphins
could be potentially looking at all kinds of additional picks,
with a possible fourth round compensatory pick coming from the
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result of this year's free agency class. With Javon Holland's departure.
There's some debate about whether or not they're qualifying for that,
but that's a debate for down the road. But it's
a possibility Mimi gets a compensitory pick back for Javon Holland.
And if Anthony Weaver does get plucked on the hiring
cycle this time around, which I would I think he
will because he deserves it and he's ready for it,
that would also kick back two third rounders to the
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Miami Dolphins in twenty twenty six and twenty twenty seven.
But man, what was our theme on the show here
all draft season and all off season. This is a
meat and potatoes class. The Dolphins have the pieces on
the perimeter and in the premium positions at quarterback, receiver,
edge tackle. Obviously, corner was a need, and we heard
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Chris Greer say several times they've been in touch with
some of the free agents. They're confident about getting a
deal done with those guys here, whether it's sooner or later.
But the needs were down the middle right. They signed
a bunch of linebackers and safeties, They signed annuals. They
draft Grant seven, Jonah as well as Jordan Phillips the
top three picks. They do get some, They do get
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two defensive backs. They get an absolute hammer at running
back who completes every imaginable style of running back. Now
in that room, Man, I just for a team that
has this narrative about them down the stretch late in
the season, for a team that is criticized for their
lack of investment in the trenches, and for a team
that has identified issues at the end of previous seasons
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and attacked them and talked about, you know, sustaining drives
last year, and they got much better at that. To me,
this draft and this offseason exemplifies a team that wasn't
too rigid in their original beliefs. We're not going to
be stubborn and go down with the ship that way,
they were able to self assess and come back with
this altered approach. My buddy Brett Coleman from the Bootleg
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Football podcast, the NFL Film Room, the stuff for NFL
Network and NFL Media and the Chargers and all kinds
of stuff. Last year he picked us to miss the
play and I was like, Hey, what gives like this
is a pretty good football team.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Why do you predict that?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
And he said it was lack of depth in the
trenches and I said, well, yeah, I mean the reason
we did miss was because our quarterback missed six and
a half games.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
But I digress.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Now. The reason I bring this up is because Brett
came back this year and said that he thinks we
killed the draft. And it's not like we lost any
of the sizzle, right, any of the dazzle on offense.
You still have that those two receivers. You still have
Devon ah Chan, still have that quarterback back there, you
still have John OUs Smith, you add Nick Westbrook Akine,
you add the offensive line, like, look, I'm not gonna
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sit here and guarantee you they're gonna win thirteen games.
But they've given themselves a chance, right, They've afforded themselves
an opportunity to change that narrative. But could they get
that power run game going that makes them, you know,
feared in multiple ways. It makes teams play on their
back foot. You have the same weapons, you have again
the same quarterback. So if you add this power element
(22:58):
and you get teams on their back foot, and you
forced safeties to come down, and you get teams out
of those umbrella coverages, maybe this is you know, the
off season that allows you to marry that vertical game
with a balanced run game and open up short spaces
to truly make the defense defend every blade of grass.
And now we've got to worry about how do I
(23:19):
set my edge against this this power run game. How
do I contend with the speed of Devon a Channon space?
How do I you know, contend with that? And then
the vertical passing game of tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle
and then concern myself with the screen game to John
hus Smith, you know, like or Jalen Conyers, if he
finds himself in that role, I just I can't get over.
(23:40):
I can't get over three hundred and twenty seven pound
James Daniels, three hundred and thirty pound Larry Borum, which
are two guys that were would have been the biggest
interior guys in the offensive line last year. And of
course Borham can play tackle as well, that's actually probably
his primary position. But and by the way, if it
is Daniels and and Jonah wins the job at guard's well,
(24:01):
Borim and eichenbergers potential backups, it's pretty good. I like
Liam as a seventh three eighth offensive liman. I like
borhim as a swing tackle and a swing interior guy.
But then you know two hundred and twenty pound free
agent back, two hundred and twenty five pound rookie running back,
two hundred and seventy pound blocking tight end, a two
hundred and fifteen pound receiver that wants to bury you
(24:21):
in the running game in the red zone, a three
hundred and forty pound nose tackle that has the quicks
to play three technique, a three hundred and twenty pound
three technique that has the chops to play nose tackle.
kJ Britt As an enforcer, Willie Gay is not like
a big time power player, but his electricity off the
line of scrimmage. That'll that'll pair. That'll do right with
those those bigger guys. The way, if I Mela fam
(24:43):
who plays the game one hundred miles an hour, I
am here for this seemingly obvious philosophical shift they made
this offseason and the part that gets me just pumped
up for camp. And look, if you can't get excited
about a new football season, maybe it's time to find
a new hobby. I don't know, because I see people
saying I'm not excited about training camp and all that,
But like, man, I want the whole part about football
(25:06):
is how they envision their issues, how they go about
fixing them, and how they play it out on Sundays,
and how they put together in training camp. Like that's
what gets me fired up. I just can't wait to
see how this new concept or you know, the perception
of this new vision of how to build the football
team of twenty twenty five how that marries up with
old concepts. And I'm not telling you at all, by
(25:28):
any stretch that I want to ditch the old concepts,
because everything that we do or used to do, led
to the number one scoring offense in the NFL just
one year ago.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
But I want to see how you can.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Marry that with the brute physicality you've added to your
personnel on both sides of the ball. And I want
to see what that makes us look like on the
road in bad weather, when we're notin in five and
playing an important game the week before Christmas. That's the
ten thousand foot view. We're going to do a roster reset.
I think on Thursday or Friday. We'll see what it
looks like. I am undecided, but tomorrow the final two picks,
(26:03):
the seventh round draft picks, Zeke Biggers and Quinn Yours
will do that and do a heavy SoundBite round up
and get you guys some clips from the players press
conferences over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
All of that and a heck of a lot more.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
But until then, you all please be sure to subscribe, rate,
review the show, follow me on social at me for NFL,
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dot com. Until next time, Bin's up. Alan catmeran Daddy
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