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Miami Dolphins

G Max Jean-Gilles (S2, 31st)
CB Antonio Cromartie (S3, 22nd)
QB Sam Keller (S3, 26th)
TE Zach Miller (S4, 15th)
WR Kenny O'Neal (S5, 31th)
DE Calais Campbell (S6, 24th)
OLB DeAndre Levy (S6, 26th)
SS Antoine Bethea (S7, 29th)
CB Joe Haden (S8, 3rd)
DT Ndamukong Suh (S8, 10th)
CB Kareem Jackson (S8, 19th)
FS Tony Jefferson (S9, 32th)
WR A.J. Green (S10, 6th)
OT Morgan Moses (S11, 10th)
DT Kawann Short (S11, 19th)
OT Ju'Wuan James (S12, 7th)
WR Odell Beckham Jr. (S12, 8th)
G Laurent Duvernay-T (S12, 11th)
OLB T.J. Watt (S13, 25th)
MLB Jordan Tripp (S13, 32nd)
OLB Marcus Golden (S14, 30th)

While unlikely to be on the Hall of Fame ballot due to a lack of accolades and block totals (he averages 37 per 16 games), Gilles is one of the premier run-blocking Gs in the league and despite four seasons of double digit sacks allowed, he has seven seasons of allowing four or fewer, which has helped him record a block:sack ratio at roughly 6. Gilles started the first 164 games of his career before missing his first game due to injury. At 35 and one of two 99 Gs in the league, he still has several years left in his career that has included three SB rings.

In the earlier seasons, I actually traded for first round picks. Three picks in Day 2 and 3 were given up to acquire the pick that became Cromartie who was the slot corner behind Chris McAlister and Antoine Winfield for many seasons before ascending to the top spot in what was the Dolphins long-awaited SB title in S8. He eventually was knocked down to the #2 spot and back to the slot last season. In what will likely be his final season, there's a chance he won't see the field depending on rookie Marlon Humphrey's rating and subsequent preseason battle. Statistically, he doesn't stand out with one Pro Bowl, 2 sacks, 20 INTs, 5 FFs, and 9 FRs in 12 seasons, but given that the Dolphins pass D truly became a force starting with his ascent to the #1 job, it stands to reason he is excellent in coverage.

The first and only QB that I have drafted for my teams, Keller is a slam dunk Hall of Famer. Keller sat behind Trent Dilfer and Kerry Collins his first two seasons. I tried trading for Matt Hasselbeck in S5, only to be rebuffed. I wanted to trade with the Chiefs (I wanted DT Ostrowski) only to not go through with it out of ethical concerns since that was a season that I was in charge of five teams, and the Chiefs were among them. Keller proceeded to have an 88.2 passer rating throwing for over 3600 yards and 27 TDs on 63% completion. Keller has gone on to win multiple QB of the Year and MVP awards while leading the league several times in passer rating, yards, and TDs. His TD:INT ratio is above 2, and his career passer rating is above 90. He's had two seasons virtually wiped out due to injury, and despite that and the two seasons he was a backup, he is second among all active QBs in passing yards and TDs having just 8 seasons of work. When this project is finished, it would be a surprise if he's not the league's greatest QB.

Because I have people send me draft strategies, I generally do not trade up during the draft out of ethical concerns even though it should be pretty apparent to all that I operate in a vacuum and march to the beat of my own drum. I can recall trading up in the draft only twice. The second was in the 4th round round. The first was during the board-draft era. I held the 19th pick and I wanted TE Zach Miller. I was very worried that the AI Saints and Steelers, who picked at 17th and 18th, would grab him. I traded up with Kora, they selected WR Meachem, and took my guy. I will absolutely bang my hand on the table for him being in the Hall of Fame. Receiving-wise, he's been good but not elite. He has five Pro Bowls to his name and a TE of the Year award and has 737 rec for 6090 yards and 34 TDs in his career. At 33 years old, he could end up with the second-most receptions in B8NFLL history. He has never missed a game in his 11 year career, and what doesn't show up on the stat sheet is that he's the league's best pass-protecting TE and among the best run-blocking ones too. TEs arguably the least impactful position in the league, but that certainly doesn't apply to Zach.

I wanted one of the many DTs expected to go in the first, but three were taken within seven picks of mine, including me taking Charles Alexander for Fenny and the Jets who didn't send me any draft plans. I received an offer to trade down, and maybe I should have, but I stayed put and selected WR O'Neal. He was stuck beyond Kelly Campbell and Andre Johnson, but he was arguably the league's best slot receiver in the league. He was eventually traded to the Steelers and all things considered, he's been nice for them with a high YPC to go along with averaging 600-ish yards and 4-ish TDs in a low-volume passing attack.

I traded DE James Hall to the Panthers for DT Marcus Stroud and I uncharacteristically did not have an heir in place for Hall. Thus, I looked hard at Calais Campbell, Doug Worthington, and Raymond Henderson before taking Calais. Campbell has been a very consistent producer in his 9 seasons. Excluding an S11 where he lost all but one game due to injury, he has averaged 9 sacks a season (73 over 8 full seasons) with nearly 3 FFs+FRs a season. He has been to four Pro Bowls and at age 31, he's on his way to having a Hall of Fame career.

One of the reasons why I prefer trading for draft picks before prospects are revealed is because I feel uneasy about doing so while people are giving me their draft plans. I traded with the Jags acquiring the 26th pick for three Day 2 and 3 picks. I had 20-something OLBs Daryl Smith and D.J. Williams already entrenched on my team, but I still took Levy for depth and to be a spot starter, which turns out was just one game in his six seasons with the Dolphins. He was traded to the Bears where he's been very good.

The selection of Bethea marked the fifth of eight 1st round selections who were drafted to be backup to begin their career. After succeeding Shaun Williams among a mass exodus of DB retirements on the team, Bethea has been one of the best coverage SSs in the league and in the past few seasons, his playmaking has seen an uptick with more tackles, sacks, INTs, and FFs+FRs than he showed in the first few seasons of his career. The Dolphins have been a SS factory (Michael Huff, Bethea, Isa Abdul-Quudus, Jaquiski Tartt), but Bethea is the one who emerged as the long-term starter for the Dolphins.

While I expect nobody to shed a tear, this offseason began the vicious cycle I was stuck on for the remainder of my Dolphins career. I couldn't afford to give all of my RFAs the highest tender, so I was the primary target of other teams in RFA, losing my top backups and using some of the draft picks to repeat the cycle over and over and over. However, the first pick of to kick off this new "era" for my team was Haden, whom I drafted after losing DT Matt Kroul to the Seahawks. Kroul was taken in the same draft as O'Neal after losing out on the 1st round DTs as I previously mentioned, so it all worked out in a way. Haden, the top-rated CB in the league, has had an excellent start to his career, helping the Dolphins perennially field a Top 5 pass D and has two Pro Bowl trips to his name while starting 111 of a possible 112 games.

Suh backed up Darwin Walker and Marcus Stroud his rookie season before ascending to a starting spot in his second. He has been an uneven pass rusher having as many as 11 and as few as 2 sacks in a season as a full-time starter, but he's been great at being disruptive and in the run game. He signed with the Vikings as a free agent and possibly became the first player to win SBs in three consecutive seasons.
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