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in the way you're used to having

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the question be heard asked but nevertheless

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the Dolphins have two bonafide star wide

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receivers in Tyree kill and

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Jaylen Waddle, but They

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seemed to be looking for

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some stature in the

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wide receiver room Whether it was

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Eric as a comma who they drafted is a bit

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of a surprise with the mid-round pick seemed

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primed to have a nice customized role within

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the Dolphins offense and then

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trading for Chase Claypool when Eric as a comma

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goes down for the season and Cedric

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Wilson stepping into a prominent role the

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team talking about the evolution or

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alluding to to the broadcast

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teams later in the season about the

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evolution of the offense needing some

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some evolution from the tight end position stature

3:37

a little bit of

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a different pitch than what

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Miami has had and when you consider How

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Kansas City late in the season was able

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to really? dictate at the

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line of scrimmage terms to

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the Dolphins wide receivers having somebody you could

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put on the line of scrimmage and Feel

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like you had the confidence that they would defeat

3:58

press coverage certainly would go

4:00

a long way in combating one of the things

4:02

that really disrupted the timing of the Dolphins offense

4:05

late in the season. Three

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wide receivers we're going to look at here today on the

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show are Brian Thomas Jr. from

4:13

LSU, Xavier Leggett

4:15

from South Carolina, and

4:17

Keon Coleman from Florida State. If

4:20

you wanted the marquee size

4:22

receiver in this year's class,

4:24

it would be Marvin Harrison Jr. at

4:26

6'3", who's allegedly been tracked on GPS

4:28

timing on the field with the ball

4:30

in his hands over 22 miles per

4:32

hour. Special, special, special

4:35

talent. Not going to be

4:37

there for the Dolphins. Probably not going to make it outside

4:39

the top five. So

4:43

I did a assessment

4:46

of Marvin Harrison Jr. I'm not going to

4:48

dedicate the airtime to Marvin Harrison Jr. because

4:51

that feels like teasing

4:53

everybody, including myself, talking about how he would

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fit with Miami's offense given the Dolphins are

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not going to be in striking distance to

5:00

land the services of Marvin Harrison

5:02

Jr. one way or another. So instead, we

5:05

shift our focus. So let's

5:07

start with Brian Thomas Jr. from

5:09

LSU. Brian Thomas Jr. was

5:12

a junior declarant, or

5:15

I guess technically based off the

5:20

Junior declarant into the 2024 NFL

5:23

Draft. Big

5:25

breakout season this past season, 68

5:27

receptions for 1,177 yards, 17

5:29

touchdowns averaging 17.3 yards per catch in his role

5:31

helping the LSU Tigers bring

5:40

a Heisman Trophy back to Baton

5:43

Rouge courtesy, of

5:45

course, of quarterback

5:48

Jayden Daniels and his ascension into

5:50

being a presumed top five pick

5:52

himself. Thomas came

5:54

to the NFL Combine and weighed in at 209

5:56

pounds at 6'3", Uh,

6:00

very impressive wingspan 90th percentile

6:02

wingspan 79 and five eighths

6:05

inches amongst all nfl wider

6:07

severs to come through the nfl combine since like 2000

6:10

And then he ran a 4 3 3

6:12

and jumped 38 and a half inches in the vertical jump With

6:15

a one five second 10 yard split. That's

6:18

what the book is on this

6:20

football player 77th

6:23

77th percentile in height 67th percentile in weight 89th

6:29

percentile in wingspan 94th

6:31

percentile 40 yard dash 88th

6:33

percentile 10 yard split 82nd

6:36

percentile vertical jump height

6:38

weight speed this is the

6:41

definition of that kind

6:43

of football player as

6:46

a result brian thomas is

6:48

often mocked in the top 20 or

6:50

the top 25 and almost in everyone's

6:53

first round mock drafts because

6:55

he has all the things you can't coach an

6:58

nfl wide receiver i

7:00

do have some some questions about

7:03

his style of play i wish

7:05

a player of that stature brought

7:07

more physicality in the ancillary components

7:09

of playing the position you're

7:11

not drafting brian thomas to block but

7:15

this is an offense particularly that

7:17

i'm evaluating and blocking skills get

7:19

evaluated no block no rock we've

7:22

said it many times it's chase claypool couldn't get on the

7:24

field consistently when he first gained a Miami because he couldn't

7:26

hit a block to save his life and

7:29

i i wished a

7:32

player with this kind of stature had

7:34

a more impressive resume this season away

7:36

from the football and

7:39

then i also have some questions about the

7:41

routes that brian thomas runs the the versatility

7:43

of the route tree that he has and

7:46

the incubation period for

7:49

him to become a more

7:51

diverse player that can contribute

7:53

in more ways than just a handful

7:56

in the dolphin's offense i would hate

7:59

for maimi to take a marquee

8:01

investment opportunity and bringing

8:03

a player that can really only do a handful

8:05

of things. And

8:07

that's what I'm worried about with Brian Thomas. Now he's got

8:10

excellent ball tracking skills down the field.

8:13

He's got outstanding length, his catch

8:15

radius is supreme. You

8:17

know who he reminds me of? Davante Parker.

8:20

Now if you want to go back

8:22

to square one with Davante Parker before

8:25

Davante Parker became the low is me

8:27

hamstring issue player Davante Parker and

8:30

try it again. The

8:32

comparables between the two is pretty startling

8:34

as far as like the stature, the

8:37

weight. Brian

8:39

Thomas runs about a tenth of a second faster in

8:41

the 40 yard dash than Davante Parker did. But

8:44

they're both similar explosive players. I think they're

8:46

both similar in how

8:48

they stack vertically down the

8:51

field. I think they're both similar in

8:53

how they win at the catch point,

8:55

but sometimes frustratingly don't consistently win

8:57

at the catch point. You'll

9:00

see Brian Thomas go up against, I

9:02

believe Texas A&M on

9:04

a sideline go route and he

9:07

will use the full length of his wingspan

9:09

and he will open himself back up to

9:11

the quarterback and the ball and he will high point

9:13

it with his hands with an

9:15

excellent reception. And then

9:18

there's other times where he gets

9:20

a deep post shot and

9:22

he tries to run underneath a

9:24

ball that he's closely contested

9:26

with and allows the defender to play

9:28

around his frame because he tries to

9:30

catch the ball low instead

9:32

of understanding a ball that's marginally under

9:34

thrown. I need to high point this

9:36

football to protect the ball the

9:39

way that you would expect like a power forward or

9:41

so to box out in basketball. So

9:45

Thomas ran plenty from the

9:47

slot and I think that's a notable thing for

9:49

Miami and their offense, particularly with the

9:52

weaponry of Jaylen Waddle and Tyreek Hill and having

9:54

guys that can line up outside but can

9:56

also line up in the slot

9:58

and having some versatility. But it

10:00

was the production from the slot that

10:03

really opens your eyes with Brian Thomas Jr.

10:07

The overwhelming majority

10:10

of his production as a receiver

10:12

this year in the LSU offense came

10:14

from the slot on fade routes. He

10:18

ran fades, he ran hitches,

10:21

and a lot of his hitches were

10:23

free access playing off of Malik neighbors,

10:25

who were also not going to spend a lot of time

10:27

talking about on this program because that's

10:30

Jalen Waddell incarnate. He

10:33

is lightning in a bottle, as

10:35

electric as they come, just weighed

10:38

in at the pro day for

10:40

LSU at 199 pounds and

10:42

ran into low 4 threes, probably both

10:45

to 199. I

10:47

would bet runs in the four

10:49

threes at his playing weight

10:52

and has electric tackle breaking

10:54

ability and excellent leaping ability

10:56

and excellent ball skills. He

10:59

himself is going to continue to come into his own as a

11:01

route runner in the same way that Jalen Waddell has since he's

11:03

coming to league. Both

11:06

of those guys, neighbors

11:08

and Thomas, they really

11:10

pop for their athleticism. Brian

11:12

Thomas is not a quick twitch

11:14

wiggle player, but he

11:16

is loose for a player at 6'3". There's

11:19

this really fascinating blend. The question

11:21

is just, I didn't see a

11:23

lot of separation that didn't come

11:25

on the vertical plane where

11:28

he could really open up his

11:30

strides and stack you vertically, especially

11:32

from the slot where he has all that extra room

11:34

to run into, unless

11:37

he ran these kind of lazy hitches on

11:39

the perimeter where teams are playing quarters or

11:42

teams are playing cover three with bail technique

11:44

and they're playing soft on the perimeter and

11:46

it just turns into pitch and catch because

11:48

there's a void. We'll

11:51

talk about how I value him versus these other two

11:54

wide receivers and the other wide receivers that we have

11:56

talked about thus far on the show here

11:58

at the end of today's program. But we're

12:00

now going to shift gears for South Carolina's

12:03

Xavier Leggett, another

12:05

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12:07

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and it was he had 1900

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receiving yards and 24 touchdowns total

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and 1217 came this

14:33

past season for

14:36

LSU. Xavier

14:38

Leggett is an even more

14:41

extreme incidence of

14:43

this and this is a

14:45

fifth year senior. He's been with the South Carolina

14:47

program since 2019 and in 2019 he caught nine

14:49

passes for 80 yards and in 2020 in

14:55

six games he caught seven passes for 113 yards and then

14:57

in 2021 he caught eight passes for 63 yards

15:01

and then in 2022 he caught 18

15:04

passes nearly doubled his career total

15:06

for 167 yards and

15:09

three touchdowns more than doubled his touchdowns

15:12

and then this season 2023 he caught 71

15:16

balls for 1255 yards and seven touchdowns

15:18

averaging 17.7 yards per catch on the

15:20

season at

15:29

six foot one

15:32

and 225 pounds

15:35

came into the combine at

15:38

221 and he doesn't have Brian Thomas's

15:40

90th percentile wingspan but he does have a

15:43

62nd percentile wingspan in spite

15:45

being six foot one which is 48th percentile

15:47

for height so he's not as tall

15:49

he's two inches shorter than Brian Thomas. His

15:52

wingspan is is shorter but a

15:54

more impressive proportion for

15:57

being longer in the arms And

16:00

he's heavier by 12 pounds than

16:02

Brian Thomas. And I will not be surprised

16:04

if the playing weight of those two players

16:06

is an even more stark difference. And it

16:08

shows up on tape. And here's the

16:11

thing about Xavier Leggett. Xavier

16:13

Leggett, with the ball in his

16:15

hands multiple times in the 2023 season, was

16:19

tracked over 22 miles per hour in

16:21

the open field with the ball

16:23

in his hands. So this is another big

16:26

pass catcher. This is another big

16:28

bodied player. But

16:30

he also, like

16:33

Brian Thomas, has a gear

16:35

and explosiveness to him that

16:37

makes him a fascinating component to

16:39

get really down to the core

16:42

principles of what the dolphins want.

16:46

They want speed. They want explosiveness. They want

16:48

explosive plays. And

16:51

Sharp football, Lauren Sharp, put

16:53

out a statistic on March 24th at the beginning of

16:55

this week. Very

16:57

impressive numbers. He

17:00

had four yards per out

17:02

run against man

17:04

coverage on the

17:06

season. That

17:10

is the highest figure of eligible wider

17:12

receivers for the 2024 NFL Draft. And

17:14

to put that into perspective, Tyree Kill on the

17:16

season averaged

17:20

like three and a half yards per out

17:22

run in the NFL and was head and

17:24

shoulders above everybody else. Xavier

17:26

Leggett had four yards

17:28

per out run against a

17:30

man coverage in 2023. Killed

17:33

man coverage. And that was

17:36

what the dolphins were all about. And that's

17:39

the fascinating thing to me about

17:41

Xavier Leggett. For a late stage

17:44

breakout player, I was not expecting

17:46

this to be such a

17:48

refined route runner in several

17:50

areas. He works

17:52

the line of scrimmage well. He

17:55

works the top of the stem well.

17:58

He's more fluid than I ever did. would have guessed

18:00

for a 225 pound player. He's

18:03

got excellent leaping ability. You know, at the NFL

18:05

Combine, he jumped 40 inches, which

18:08

is an inch and a half higher

18:11

than what Brian Thomas did. And

18:14

he shows it, whether it's adjustments along

18:16

the sideline and then getting two feet

18:18

down. Here's, here's, I watched

18:20

Xavier Leggett's tape and

18:22

I came away higher than I

18:25

thought that I ever would be for his

18:27

film based on like his profile as a

18:29

one year breakout player. And you saw some

18:31

of the scheme touches that South Carolina gave

18:33

him. And if you

18:35

just watch the highlights, you'd say, okay, like vertical

18:37

down the field player, scheme touch player, but late

18:40

stage, what's the developmental curve going to

18:42

look like? This is a totally

18:45

different ballgame than that. So how

18:47

did South Carolina use Leggett? I think

18:49

that's an important part of this conversation.

18:51

You know, this conversation thus

18:53

far really illustrating the value within the

18:55

South Carolina offense and kind

18:58

of hinting at this, not just being a

19:01

one year wonder. And I know one of

19:03

the comparisons that people are making in draft

19:06

circles around Xavier Leggett is Jonathan

19:08

Mingo. And I don't think that comparison could be further

19:10

off the mark as far as the style of play.

19:13

You saw scheme touches for Xavier

19:15

Leggett. Yes. They ran them on jet sweeps.

19:18

They ran them on perimeter screens. They

19:20

got the ball quickly into his hands on

19:22

design touches to try to get him out

19:24

in space with his size and explosiveness. But

19:27

then they put them in the slot. And

19:29

he ran deep crossing routes.

19:31

He ran hard angled outbreaking routes and

19:33

snapped off for separation. He ran on

19:35

the perimeter against press coverage and

19:38

had success working hard angled routes

19:40

that work back down towards the

19:43

sideline. Comebacks. I thought

19:45

he had the best separation on

19:47

comeback routes of anybody in this trio

19:49

of water severs that we're talking about.

19:53

So you saw kind of a diversity of ways

19:55

in which he was used and

19:57

a surprising level

19:59

of. of route polish for

20:01

a player who had not been able to

20:03

put together any meaningful production before this season. And

20:06

then you pair that and you go back to 4.0

20:09

yards for route run. And

20:11

this dolphins offense through

20:14

the middle of December last

20:17

season killed teams

20:19

head and shoulders the

20:22

best team in the NFL against

20:24

man coverage. And

20:27

then Tyree kill that hurt. And

20:29

then Jim and Waddle got her. And

20:32

that element disappeared.

20:36

And the entire conversation that we're having about a

20:38

third option in the passing game is what

20:42

player can you find and add that

20:45

if somebody over commits the assets

20:48

to the other players on the

20:50

dolphins offense who can win a

20:52

one on one. This

20:55

is a guy who can do it.

20:59

And it's not

21:01

a conclusion that was mentally prepared to come to because

21:05

I knew he had a flashy flashy season. I

21:07

knew we had the height weight speed which

21:10

was leery about the late late year breakout guys.

21:13

I did not see a traditional

21:16

late year breakout unsustainable

21:19

style of creating

21:23

production. Now

21:26

we will shift gears and talk about

21:28

Keyon Coleman a

21:30

transfer to Florida State from

21:32

Michigan State from this past

21:34

season. Another big body pass catcher that's

21:37

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Coleman is a challenging

23:13

evaluation for me. And

23:17

here's some transparency. Not every player you watch

23:19

you come away with the

23:22

kind of conviction that you thought that you or you

23:24

hoped that you would. And sometimes

23:26

that makes the player not for you. I

23:29

don't believe Keon Coleman is going

23:32

to be for me, but it

23:34

doesn't really matter if he's quote unquote for me. It matters

23:36

if he's for the Dolphins. I

23:38

can see some ways in which

23:40

Keon Coleman is would be an appealing player for

23:42

the Dolphins. Six foot three and a

23:45

quarter. 213 pounds. He

23:48

runs a 461, but

23:51

very explosive in the jumps. He's

23:53

on par with Brian Thomas and

23:55

Xavier Leggett in the vertical jump and the broad jump. 38

23:59

inches in the vertical jump. 10 feet 7 inches

24:01

in the broad jump at 213 pounds

24:03

as a big bodied wide receiver

24:05

and I do think he is

24:07

lit from a linear perspective explosive

24:12

but you watch the tape and

24:15

he flashed big time at Michigan State and

24:17

you're like wow like Jaden Reed you're watching

24:19

Jaden Reed tape last year this

24:21

time last year before the draft you know like

24:23

wow Coleman's kind of a stud where is he going to end

24:25

up and then he goes to Florida State and

24:29

the season starts strong he scores three

24:31

touchdowns in the season opener against LSU

24:34

really impressive plays it highlights what he

24:37

does best he's a big body

24:39

guy with very

24:41

good ball skills and vertical tracking ability down

24:43

the field but he's the latest

24:45

poster child for this GPS versus

24:48

timed speed debate and

24:50

I think it brings some merit but I think

24:53

there's some context to it so

24:55

I wouldn't grade him too hardly on the 461 because

24:57

that's timed speed but

25:01

when he's out on the field his GPS

25:03

timing at maximum speed is

25:05

near the top of the class and I know that was a

25:07

big thing from the NFL combine for him too. The

25:12

issue I the

25:14

standoff I have with Coleman is

25:17

I do think he's a little bit of a build-up speed

25:19

player he

25:22

has a an average 10-yard split and

25:26

I do think he's a long strider at

25:28

six foot three that's 83rd percentile for

25:30

height for NFL wide receiver since 2000 in

25:32

the NFL combine so a

25:35

little bit of a long strider with a

25:37

little bit of build-up speed practically but then

25:39

you get him out on the field when

25:41

he's tracking the ball and he's really capable

25:43

of opening up those strides and really getting

25:45

out on the hook. He

25:48

tracks the ball well vertically down the field but

25:53

from a timed speed from a timed speed

25:55

perspective his ability to stack you or his

25:58

from a play speed perspective his ability

26:00

to stack you with consistency is

26:03

not there. He had the biggest issue separating

26:05

on the perimeter of any of

26:07

the three players that we've talked about here today. And

26:10

then you get these weird reps where they

26:12

put them in the back field against Florida

26:14

and they run swing boom. And

26:16

he's got a bunch of reps.

26:19

I know Josh Norris from underdog fantasy

26:21

just spotlighted this earlier today.

26:23

I think he had more perimeter, like four

26:25

times as many perimeter screens as any of

26:27

the other major players in the class. And

26:30

he's doing that at six foot three, 213 pounds.

26:34

He returns punts. There's all these

26:36

odd ways in which Florida state just tried to get

26:38

the ball in his hands, but

26:41

it didn't really click. It

26:43

felt like they were, they were forced touches

26:46

for the sake of touches as compared to

26:48

productive touches that put him in a position

26:50

to do what he does successfully and

26:54

how he wins separation underneath because he's

26:56

a long strider. Is he has to

26:58

be physical with guys at

27:00

the top of the stem. And I think he does

27:02

that quite well, but there's instances where I think

27:05

he gets called for pushoffs at the NFL level

27:08

at the top of the stem, well outside the

27:10

contact window, like really

27:12

egregious against Clemson extending

27:16

to create five yards of separation on an

27:18

out route. Because he's

27:21

a long strider. If you're

27:23

going to cut his route and he's working at the top

27:25

of the stem, his ability to kind of work around you

27:27

is kind of limited, and then he gets

27:29

kind of stuck on you and then

27:31

there's this extra time and he really

27:33

has issue working across your face, but

27:36

on the vertical plane stuff, he'll do a really good job of

27:38

working up to get up on top of your toes and then

27:41

try to break out of it, but he doesn't have the same

27:43

pop as the other guys, but

27:46

then his, his time speed or his GPS speed, when

27:48

the ball is in the air and it's time to

27:50

hunt it down and the ability to high point the

27:52

football is

27:55

probably as consistent as,

27:57

as Xavier Leggets and better than

27:59

Brian. to high point the football. And

28:02

he's got better hands, in my mind, than Brian Thomas

28:04

does at the contact window. So

28:07

there's like, there's some give and some take, but

28:10

he doesn't have the rare length

28:13

from a wingspan perspective and the height,

28:16

weight, speed element that Brian Thomas

28:18

does. So he's a

28:20

really conflicting player for

28:22

me, for the Dolphins. I'll say this though,

28:24

he blocks his butt off. And

28:27

I appreciate the heck out of that for Keon

28:29

Coleman. You

28:31

know, that offense

28:34

did not at times put him in a lot

28:36

of successful positions, whether they were

28:38

getting the ball in his hands or not. But

28:41

he's getting up on the perimeter on the backside of

28:43

plays, and he's pushing hard off the line of scrimmage

28:45

at the 10 yards, and he's getting his hands on

28:48

corners, and he's moving them around. The

28:52

analytics committee, and analytics

28:54

community hates Keon Coleman. Because

28:58

Keon Coleman tests very poorly in

29:00

every major yards versus

29:02

zone, yards versus man yards per

29:04

route run, all

29:06

that stuff. Some of that is usage. But

29:09

there is a separation issue for Keon

29:12

Coleman that I think exists in

29:15

all phases, because I think

29:17

he has to play overly physical to separate

29:19

in the short stuff, which is where he's

29:21

probably, he's

29:24

gonna be masked with his stride to

29:27

stack you vertically. But

29:30

I think the best part of his game is the

29:32

vertical elements of his game. It's just,

29:35

I don't think he has the initial gear in the

29:37

first 10 yards to stack you quickly the same way

29:39

the other guys do. So

29:42

there's some darned if you do and darned if

29:44

you don't, with Keon Coleman. That's

29:48

how I see him anyway. And then you put that within

29:50

the Dolphins' offenses the timing-based offense.

29:53

If you're a third option, and

29:55

they're gonna really mug you and try

29:57

to play physical, Can

30:00

he win at the line of scrimmage and

30:02

play through contact? Yes, but some of the

30:04

stickiness in trying to work through contact at

30:06

the top of route stems is

30:08

a little bit more concerning for me as far

30:10

as a timing-based offense with spot throws where you

30:13

got to get to your landmark with consistency. I

30:15

just don't know how well it fits. It

30:19

wouldn't be for me. So

30:23

how do they stack up? To this

30:25

point, the names that we've talked about. We

30:29

had the big three, the guys

30:31

that will be long gone before Miami comes

30:33

on the clock. I have those three Harrison,

30:35

neighbors and Adunze. If any of those are

30:37

on the board for Miami when they pick,

30:39

you run the card in, you don't think

30:41

twice. If any of them fall to 15,

30:43

you're probably getting on the phone trying to

30:46

figure out, hey, can we make

30:48

something happen? What do you need to get it done? Can

30:50

we get a player swap in here involved? Can we get

30:52

a 20-25 pick swap involved to come up a few spots

30:54

and get this guy? Where

30:56

that caliber of players, they'd be

30:58

quality starters, in my opinion, from

31:01

the jump on the Dolphins offense. Quality

31:05

starters with

31:08

ceiling to grow into being cornerstone

31:10

players. Xavier

31:13

Leggett's the next guy for

31:16

me. Out of

31:18

all the options we've covered, we of course

31:20

cover Brian Thomas, Xavier Leggett, Keon Coleman today.

31:23

We covered the Texas wide receivers and

31:26

the Washington wide receivers yesterday. We

31:29

acknowledge the existence of Malik neighbors and Marvin

31:31

Harrison Jr. Pretty

31:34

expansive list. Leggett's

31:36

the guy who I think has the most

31:38

obvious crossover between his

31:40

role in usage, affording

31:43

the Dolphins something they don't already have,

31:48

and a style of play that I think is

31:50

sustainable within Miami's offense. Behind

31:54

him, I would put Xavier worthy

31:56

for, again, the parallels to his

31:58

role in usage. The

32:02

speed element that he has that is an

32:04

obvious fit for Miami. I just

32:07

don't quite like him as much because it's a little bit too much

32:09

more of the same versus a new dynamic

32:11

in the room. Size does matter.

32:16

A.D. Mitchell would be next on my

32:18

list. And then Brian Thomas Key

32:20

on Coleman. And I would have both

32:22

of those guys in front of the Washington

32:24

duo of Jalen McMillan and Jolynn Polk. A

32:26

lot of names.

32:30

We've got a lot more

32:32

to get to. We've already mentioned the

32:34

Michigan wide receivers, Roman Wilson and

32:36

Cornelius Johnson. I think Roman Wilson is

32:38

a viable candidate for Miami in the second round if

32:40

they go with a different direction. As

32:43

far as where I would draft save your leg it, I think

32:45

that's an important point. After

32:51

getting out of the tape, I think there's a pretty

32:53

good chance this ends up being a late first round,

32:55

early second round pick. So

32:58

I think this would have to be a you strike out on

33:00

offensive line, defensive line. Marginal

33:03

trade back because again, then you get into you

33:05

get into Buffalo, you get into Detroit, you get

33:07

into Baltimore, you get into Kansas City. There's a lot

33:09

of landmines at the end. The San Francisco have to

33:11

trade Brandon Iook. If

33:14

they do there at 31,

33:17

Leggett would make sense for all of those teams. So

33:21

you don't get the Mormon fuzzies about him being there

33:23

at 55. I think that's a pipe tree. So

33:28

depending on what happens with your trench play, maybe

33:32

if you strike out, you can slide back

33:34

a little bit a few spots and grab

33:37

him. But don't expect him to

33:39

be there at 55. I

33:43

kind of have a hard time seeing him get out of the first

33:45

round. Thomas

33:48

and Coleman, I think Thomas

33:50

predictably will be wide receiver for just because

33:52

of the highway speed element. Teams

33:54

are going to think we can teach him a more

33:57

diverse route tree and they'll probably be right.

34:01

But I think the fit for Miami is not

34:04

I think what it was sold as When

34:07

he was a buzzy name for Miami and mock draft circles

34:09

I think there's a better chance that Xavier Leggett is

34:12

the tailor-made fit for this offense as

34:14

a big-bodied heightweight speed super explosive guy

34:18

and Then

34:20

Keon Coleman, I think he's probably

34:22

on the conversation in day two I don't think he goes

34:24

in the first round when it's all said and done

34:26

as a challenging evaluation But I

34:29

would have a hard time envisioning He'd be the player that you

34:31

would pick a 55 and say yeah,

34:33

this guy's gonna come in and be

34:35

a immediate Significant contributor

34:37

to our team in 2024 and beyond which

34:40

I think is what we're aspiring for with

34:42

these picks That is

34:44

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