Potential Dolphins WR target flexes muscle at House of Athlete Combine

Potential Dolphins WR target flexes muscle at House Of Athlete Combine

The Miami Dolphins, along with the rest of the league, are going to have to get a little unconventional with their approach to collecting information on 2021 NFL Draft prospects. Sure, you’ll have formal Pro Days, but the access to such events will be restricted due to the COVID-19 pandemic and as a result teams will need to be able to vet out potential targets from mostly afar.

For the Dolphins, what is transpiring this weekend in Weston, FL should certainly catch their eye and command their interest. Former Miami Dolphins receiver Brandon Marshall is helping to put on a pseudo-Combine of his own courtesy of his fitness and lifestyle brand, House of Athlete (HOA). The HOA Combine has welcomed a slew of NFL Draft prospects into their facilities and, this weekend, all of that is coming to a head with workouts taking place all throughout the day today.

No NFL personnel is able to attend in accordance with the league-wide guidelines for this unorthodox offseason, but never the less there will be opportunities from afar to make observations and add boxes of information to certain prospects’ profiles.

Consider Clemson Tigers wide receiver among them. If the Dolphins are looking for a player to fill the slot/gadgety role in their wide receiver room, you’d be hard pressed to find more than a handful of intriguing options than Rodgers, who repped out 24 reps of 225 pound in the weight room yesterday as a part of the opening salvo of events.

Rodgers has a build that isn’t dissimilar to current Miami Dolphins wide receiver Albert Wilson, so there’s a clear path for him to generate interest from the team. And Rodgers, who looked like a much more dynamic player in 2020 after an Achilles injury in 2019, is going to have the chance to put an exclamation point on his growing resume with athletic testing.

Rodgers had a big increase in production, he’s rebounded from injury and now he’s showing that he’s got the weight room strength to match his running back-esque build. Look alive Miami, this is a Day 2 option to keep an eye on — even if you can’t lay eyes on his HOA Combine workout in the flesh due to the league mandates.