The Ringer’s Todd McShay on Dolphins’ Many Draft Needs & WR Class Breakdown

Todd McShay walks Rich through what the Dolphins should actually do with a draft board that lists more holes than answers. Trade back, McShay says. Keep trading back. Miami already holds seven of the top 100 picks, including four in the third round and two in the second, and they need bodies who can play right away, not lottery tickets.

Rich pushes back. With that roster, isn't best player available the move? If a tackle like Josh Simmons is sitting there, you take him. McShay agrees on the tackle logic and starts unspooling the receiver class to make his case. The first round will go fast at tackle. The wideouts get sprinkled in around them. Day two is loaded. He rattles off Tre Stribling, Jaylin Bernard, Chris Bell coming back from injury at Louisville, Antonio Williams, Bryce Lance (Trey's younger brother out of North Dakota State), and Chris Brazell. Tall, fast, 4.3 guys you can find in rounds two and three.

From there the conversation pivots to the Rams at 26 and the Ty Simpson rumors. McShay keeps hearing there's a Ty Simpson team out there, and he won't be shocked if Simpson goes late round one. The Rams are his suspect: Stafford has maybe one more year, the front office has Thomas Dimitroff DNA from the Julio Jones trade-up era, and they've shown a willingness to mortgage picks for a swing.

McShay then maps the wide receiver dominoes. If Carnell Tate goes top ten and Simpson sneaks into the back end, Makai Lemon could slide to the Jets at 16. Omar Cooper Jr is a name McShay has higher than the national media. Denzel Boston, big and physical, isn't a great separator but tests off the charts in spatial awareness and intelligence. He thinks four receivers could land between picks 16 and 32.

Seattle's the other team to watch. McShay's been told they want to move back, grab Javian Price or another back, and add a pick rather than stay locked in. Rich asks the obvious question: why not just take Price and pick up the fifth-year option later? McShay shrugs. Teams talk to teams. That's what he's hearing.

The second round, McShay says, is where the interior defensive line run starts. Kaden McDonald goes early. Peter Woods from Clemson still has first-round grades on some boards. Nine to eleven interior linemen typically come off in the top 100, and this year that group is back-loaded. Giants need one. So do a handful of others picking early on day two. The board, McShay tells Rich, is going to look very different by the time it gets to Miami again.