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Dolphins wide receiver Leonte Carroo, a third-round pick in the 2016 draft, made just three receptions for 29 yards and a touchdown as a rookie. Robin Alam/Icon Sportswire

One of the surprise draft picks a year ago for the Miami Dolphins was third-round selection Leonte Carroo.
Miami traded its sixth-round pick last year and third- and fourth-round picks this year in order to move up to select Carroo. That was a hefty bounty and showed how much the Dolphins valued the former Rutgers receiver.
With that in mind, Carroo’s rookie season was a disappointment. He recorded just three receptions for 29 yards and a touchdown. He was mostly the fourth -- and sometime fifth -- receiver in a position group that's already deep for Miami. And with veteran receiver Kenny Stills re-signing with the Dolphins this offseason, Carroo is not projected to get much playing time once again in 2017.
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http://www.espn.com/blog/miami-dolp...nfident-leonte-carroo-can-make-jump-in-year-2
 
i guess we'll see improvements from Leonte Carroo. how much that'll translate in on the field opportunities and production remains to be seen. right now it looks like he's gonna get lost in a numbers game. as the article said, Landry and Parker are your starters, Kenny Stills isn't being paid 8 mil/year to sit on the bench and there certainly is a plan for Julius Thomas as well. that's 4 out of a possible 5 skill positions filled already and i don't think we'll run a lot of empty backfield sets. besides the occasional 4 or 5 WR sets, i don't see much run for Carroo at the moment.
 
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No leap will compare to the one the FO took when they snagged this kid. Not a position of need last year and even less this year. I would kill to have picks 86 and 128 back for this year. Imagine the players available at those spots.

Puts the draft in a whole other perspective when you could use 22 on Jordan Willis, 54 on Dorian Johnson
 
greasyObnoxious said:
i guess we'll see improvements from Leonte Carroo. how much that'll translate in on the field opportunities and production remains to be seen. right now it looks like he's gonna get lost in a numbers game. as the article said, Landry and Parker are your starters, Kenny Stills isn't being paid 8 mil/year to sit on the bench and there certainly is a plan for Julius Thomas as well. that's 4 out of a possible 5 skill positions filled already and i don't think we'll run a lot of empty backfield sets. besides the occasional 4 or 5 WR sets, i don't see much run for Carroo at the moment.
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I think you got it. It isn't he's a bad receiver, but he's behind some quality players. I still think he was drafted with the expectation Stills wouldn't have the season he had.
 
A guy like Carroo -- who doesn't have a standout physical characteristic -- can sometimes take some time to get going. Big, fast guys (DeVante Parker, for example)... can produce even if they don't exactly know what they're doing. But that has a limit. Eventually you have to become a professional and figure things out or you won't make it (see: DeVante Parker again). But that early production can fool you into thinking a player is farther along than they really are.

We'll see. Generally speaking more than 50% of draft picks will fail. You can make all the arguments you want about why this guy will make it or why that guy will make it, but you are generally going to see at least half of your draft picks turn into nothing.

The thing to remember is that -- at least in my view -- the Carroo pick wasn't about Kenny Stills or Jarvis Landry. Those guys have defined roles, roles that Carroo isn't here to intrude on (and can't, in Stills' case). Carroo was about insurance in case Parker never "gets it" (or is unable to stay healthy).
 
Im rooting for the guy, but dang I still prefer landry, Parker, and Stills. I really think that we made that trade with the thought that Stills wouldn't perform well in 2016 and they wanted insurance. That's the only real explanation. But if one of the WR's get hurt this year, then Id love to see what this kid is made of.
 
I was reading an older article yesterday where Carroo mentioned the WR coach was really stepping up to bat for him - so i'm geussing he had alot to do with them going up to get him.

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Carroo: “I felt like those guys weren’t pulling my leg. The wide receivers coach looked me right in the eye and said, ‘I want you. I like your physicality. I like the way you play. You are a lot different than a lot of receivers in this draft. I’m going to do everything I can to get you, but I’m not sure how this is going to play out.’"
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http://www.app.com/story/sports/col...rs-football-dolphins-nfl-draft-pick/83699576/
 
I take this to mean that he will take some of Parker's snaps due to his profile in college being good blocker and in play action. Parker will not be extended IMO because the FO will be too stubborn to come to the realization that they blundered with the Carroo trade.
 
DPhinz_DPhinz said:
I take this to mean that he will take some of Parker's snaps due to his profile in college being good blocker and in play action. Parker will not be extended IMO because the FO will be too stubborn to come to the realization that they blundered with the Carroo trade.
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I don't think Gase would stoop that low. he admits mistakes
 
Looking at the bright side... How nice is it to have a guy of his potential providing depth at 4/5? If the injury bug hits our WR Corp, I still feel better with calling up our #4 to start than I did with our "starters" a few years ago (see Hartline).
 
I think he will be perfect for those games where guys have nagging injuries on short weeks and could use the rest. Hopefully he will prove valuable enough that there is not a huge drop off in level of play when he is out there instead


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I don't have anything to back this up but I get the feeling that he can perform at every WR spot we put him in, increasing his value


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