The Miami Dolphins’ busy Saturday afternoon continues. The Dolphins surprised with their conservative nature in the early portions of the 2020 NFL Draft, preserving their NFL Draft capital and standing firm to let the board come to them.
There is no “letting the board come” to the Dolphins on Day 3 of this NFL Draft. Miami has put the pedal down and has asserted themselves this afternoon, moving up on multiple occasions to target falling talents that the team clearly feels is a good fit for the team’s foundation.
The latest example comes as the Dolphins surrender picks No. 173 and No. 227 to move up to the 164th overall selection and stop the fall of Boise State pass rusher Curtis Weaver.
Weaver is one of the most productive pass rushers in this year’s NFL Draft class — he’s dominated the competition in the Mountain West Conference and offered respectable athletic testing at the 2020 NFL Combine. Weaver doesn’t have prototypical length, but he’s got a hot motor and some nifty rush counters. Weaver’s pass rush pallet is more developed than that of another 5th-round selection for Miami today in Jason Strowbridge, too.
The Dolphins have flipped the script today — and it is paying off with productive talent that the team has apparently deemed too good to ignore, even at the cost of multiple late-round picks.