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The Dolphins have to make decisions on resigning 4 players from the 2014 draft in the next few weeks

Ja'Waun James
Jarvis Landry (franchise tag)
Walt Aikens
Terrence Fede

I thought it would be interesting to go back the previous 10 years and see how the team fared and how many were resigned, traded and released. Below is the data that I complied.

We drafted 78 players from 2004 thru 2013
41 were released before reaching a second contract
21 went to other teams thru free agency
10 were resigned to second contracts by Dolphins
6 were traded to other teams (4th round best compensation)


Here is the list of 78 players and what happened after being drafted

Year Rnd Player Pick Pos College/Univ Result
2013 1 Dion Jordan 3 DE Oregon Released 2017
2013 2 Jamar Taylor 54 DB Boise St. Traded to Cleveland 2016
2013 3 Dallas Thomas 77 T Tennessee Released 2016
2013 3 Will Davis 93 DB Utah St. Traded to Baltimore 2015
2013 4 Jelani Jenkins 104 LB Florida Free Agent to Oakland
2013 4 Dion Sims 106 TE Michigan St. Free Agent to Chicago
2013 5 Mike Gillislee 164 RB Florida Released 2015
2013 5 Caleb Sturgis 166 K Florida Released 2015
2013 7 Don Jones 250 DB Arkansas St. Released 2014
2012 1 Ryan Tannehill 8 QB Texas A&M Resigned to 4 year $77M
2012 2 Jonathan Martin 42 T Stanford Traded to S.F. 2014
2012 3 Olivier Vernon 72 LB Miami (FL) Free Agent to Giants
2012 3 Michael Egnew 78 TE Missouri Released 2014
2012 4 Lamar Miller 97 RB Miami (FL) Free agent to Houston
2012 5 Josh Kaddu 155 LB Oregon Released 2013
2012 6 B.J. Cunningham 183 WR Michigan St. Released 2012
2012 7 Kheeston Randall 215 DT Texas Released 2012
2012 7 Rishard Matthews 227 WR Nevada Free Agent to Tennessee
2011 1 Mike Pouncey 15 G Florida Resigned to 5 year $44.7M
2011 2 Daniel Thomas 62 RB Kansas St. Released 2014
2011 4 Clyde Gates 111 WR Abilene Christian Released 2012
2011 6 Charles Clay 174 TE Tulsa Free Agent to Buffalo
2011 7 Frank Kearse 231 DT Alabama A&M Released 2011
2011 7 Jimmy Wilson 235 DB Montana Free Agent to S.D.
2010 1 Jared Odrick 28 DE Penn St. Free Agent to Jacksonville
2010 2 Koa Misi 40 LB Utah Resigned to 4 year $17M
2010 3 John Jerry 73 T Mississippi Free Agent to Giants
2010 4 A.J. Edds 119 LB Iowa Released 2011
2010 5 Nolan Carroll 145 DB Maryland Free Agent to Philadelphia
2010 5 Reshad Jones 163 DB Georgia Resigned to 5 year $60M
2010 7 Chris McCoy 212 DE Middle Tenn. St. Released 2010
2010 7 Austin Spitler 252 LB Ohio St. Released 2013
2009 1 Vontae Davis 25 DB Illinois Traded to Indy 2012
2009 2 Pat White 44 QB West Virginia Released 2009
2009 2 Sean Smith 61 DB Utah Free Agent to K.C.
2009 3 Patrick Turner 87 WR USC Released 2010
2009 4 Brian Hartline 108 WR Ohio St. Resigned to 5 year $31M
2009 5 John Nalbone 161 TE Monmouth Released 2010
2009 5 Chris Clemons 165 DB Clemson Resigned to 1 year $2.7M
2009 6 Andrew Gardner 181 T Georgia Tech Released 2009
2009 7 J.D. Folsom 214 LB Weber St. Released 2009
2008 1 Jake Long 1 T Michigan Free Agent to St. Louis
2008 2 Phillip Merling 32 DE Clemson Free Agent to Green Bay
2008 2 Chad Henne 57 QB Michigan Free Agent to Jacksonville
2008 3 Kendall Langford 66 DE Hampton Free Agent to St. Louis
2008 4 Shawn Murphy 110 T Utah St. Released 2008
2008 6 Jalen Parmele 176 RB Toledo Released 2008
2008 6 Donald Thomas 195 G Connecticut Released 2009
2008 6 Lex Hilliard 204 RB Montana Free Agent to Minnesota
2008 7 Lionel Dotson 245 DT Arizona Released 2010

Part 1........
 
Part 2

2007 1 Ted Ginn 9 WR Ohio St. Free Agent to S.F.
2007 2 John Beck 40 QB BYU Released 2008
2007 2 Samson Satele 60 C Hawaii Traded to Oakland in 2009
2007 3 Lorenzo Booker 71 RB Florida St. Traded to Eagles in 2008
2007 4 Paul Soliai 108 DT Utah Resigned to 2 year $12M
2007 6 Reagan Maui'a 181 RB Hawaii Released 2008
2007 6 Drew Mormino 199 C Central Michigan Released 2007
2007 7 Kelvin Smith 219 LB Syracuse Released 2007
2007 7 Brandon Fields 225 P Michigan St. Resigned to 4 year $13M
2007 7 Abraham Wright 238 DE Colorado Released 2007
2006 1 Jason Allen 16 DB Tennessee Free Agent to Houston
2006 3 Derek Hagan 82 WR Arizona St. Released 2008
2006 4 Joe Toledo 114 T Washington Released 2006
2006 7 Fred Evans 212 DT Texas St. Released 2007
2006 7 Rodrique Wright 226 DT Texas Released 2008
2006 7 Devin Aromashodu 233 WR Auburn Released 2007
2005 1 Ronnie Brown 2 RB Auburn Free Agent to Philadelphia
2005 2 Matt Roth 46 DE Iowa Free Agent to Cleveland
2005 3 Channing Crowder 70 LB Florida Resigned to 3 year $13.8M
2005 4 Travis Daniels 104 DB LSU Released 2007
2005 5 Anthony Alabi 162 T TCU Released 2007
2005 7 Kevin Vickerson 216 DT Michigan St. Released 2005
2004 1 Vernon Carey 19 T Miami (FL) Resigned to 6 year $42M
2004 4 Will Poole 102 DB USC Released 2005
2004 5 Tony Bua 160 LB Arkansas Released 2005
2004 6 Rex Hadnot 174 G Houston Free Agent to Cleveland
2004 7 Tony Pape 221 G Michigan Released 2004
2004 7 Derrick Pope 222 LB Alabama Released 2007

Not a very good track record of drafting or retaining talent. Hopefully it changes going forward.
 
Lots of interesting draft picks in there.

You really see at how bad we were drafting between 04-07...that's one of the things that really set us back. Some really bad choices there, some real reaches.

The drafts afterwards, some reaches, but some not so bad choices, either, but some real ugly ones as well. Mediocre, I suppose.
 
The one thing I noticed is the buzzard's luck we have had recently even when we do draft well. Each of our last 4 resigns has been injured right after getting paid. That doesn't help either.
 
When you combine poor drafting which in turn equates to a lack of quality resigns . . . You get 2 playoff visits and 0 playoff wins in the last 16 years.
 
It's curious than that people want to let players like Landry walk because we can "easily draft a replacement" as if our track record in the draft is not what it is.
 
Avigatorx said:
That's some depressing **** right there.
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Barren landscape, that's for sure. The 2005/2006 drafts were basically an "SEC who's who?" of Saban favorites...I want to say that the 2004 and/or 2005 draft was decimated a bit by the FO chasing running back replacements like the illustrious Lamar Gordon in the wake of Ricky Williams' dream quest, as well...Wannstedt never seemed to want to draft. It's amazing that Spielman's turned into this whiz of a GM, considering he didn't seem that great here. I don't know if it was that he was handicapped by Pornstache, or what, but it's a bit depressing...maybe he learned a thing or two.

There were some players that were a flash in the pan though, good for one year, then fell off a cliff...Matt Roth for example...dude was solid, but then just turned into Howard Hughes and disappeared...Ronnie Brown had a nice run for us, but he got hyped off a nice combine...I wanted Aaron Rodgers that year (not revisionist history), or Alex Smith, and we wound up with a running back. That class sucked...

Derek Hagan couldn't catch AIDS at a Thai bath house...Jason Allen was hurt and ineffective....that class was terrible.

Samson Satele was basically the guy we traded Wes Welker for. John Beck was 80 years old by the time we drafted him, undersized and couldn't cut it. Always though Regan Maui'a had some potential, but he couldn't cut it...that draft class was terrible (outside of Satele).

08 looked good on paper...Long looked like a guy you could plug in for 10 years. I thought we should go with Ryan, as I'm all about drafting the QBs, but Long wasn't a bad choice...he just couldn't stay healthy. Merling looked like a steal to start the 2nd round...Henne looked solid to start, but the wheels came off, OCs came in (Henning2Daboll), and he just ultimately couldn't cut the mustard...Langford wasn't bad for awhile, was definitely a nice "small school" find. Lex Hilliard was another out of Montana. I really liked him. The others were reaches and really were just burn outs, like Shawn Murphy.

2009, Vontae Davis, Sean Smith, and Brian Hartline were all good picks. Pat White, I just don't know what the hell we were thinking with that one, other than running that stupid Wildcat offense. That was just an absolute waste of a 2nd round pick when there was potentially so much more left on the board. Complete head scratcher. The CBs were solid picks, though. So was Hartline. I thought Patrick Turner would turn out to be more than he was...Chris Clemons wasn't a bad pick, either.

2010...To me, this is one of our worst drafts, considering the players we missed on...Earl Thomas, Gronkowski, Jimmy Graham, etc. We wound up with John Jerry, Jared Odrick (who really wasn't that terrible), and other illustrious players. Could have really skyrocketed the team, but we mired ourselves in mediocrity. Story of the Fins.

2011...Pouncey, D. Thomas, Clay, Jimmy Wilson are the notables...I thought Clyde Gates might be something, but wasn't. Just another reach. Pouncey's been a walking MASH unit, and Clay was solid before he left. Jimmy Wilson turned out to be a decent Special Teams player...and Daniel Thomas was underwhelming, but also fairly polarizing. Definitely not a running back of the future.

The last few of those drafts, and you see why Fist Pump was shown the door.

2012...Ireland hit on a few...Tannehilll, Lamar Miller, Olivier Vernon...but remember when Michael Egnew was going to be our version of Rob Gronkowski? lol

2013...Was pretty much a black hole in terms of drafting.

All in all, if you look at those drafts, they've been pretty bad, or pretty mediocre, and we've hit on a few players, but not enough to stay competitive. It's been bad folks, not too bad, but not too good either.
 
Great post. Ill have a lot of thoughts but first and fore most 2012 and 2013.....just wow.

18 players drafted combined, Ryan Tannehill is the only one on the team today. Really makes you wonder how they managed to get to the playoffs in 2016. Gase/Tannehill are foundational pieces.

The good thing we have going for us is that the last 3 drafts look better than the entire 2000s combined.
 
The one I can't seem to remember was Ronnie Brown. He played for 6 years but signed a 5 year contract out of college back when the contacts were massive. I can find no record of him resigning with us. But he only played part of a season twice due to injury. So was one of the seasons not counted? I can't remember what happened.
 
Fins1971 said:
The one I can't seem to remember was Ronnie Brown. He played for 6 years but signed a 5 year contract out of college back when the contacts were massive. I can find no record of him resigning with us. But he only played part of a season twice due to injury. So was one of the seasons not counted? I can't remember what happened.
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His rookie contract had an option for a 6th year that was tied to the CBA.

We never resigned him
 
Fins1971 said:
The one I can't seem to remember was Ronnie Brown. He played for 6 years but signed a 5 year contract out of college back when the contacts were massive. I can find no record of him resigning with us. But he only played part of a season twice due to injury. So was one of the seasons not counted? I can't remember what happened.
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He signed with another team briefly, I dont remember which.
 
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