There is no comparing last year's Miami Dolphins roster to the 2009 version. The 2008 edition was filled with holes the Dolphins' front office continuously plugged all season, scouring the waiver wire like a coupon-cutting house wife on a budget attacks a grocery store.
Through the draft and free agency the Dolphins have clearly filled out the roster in a number of areas (O-line, CB, WR, OLB). That's the norm in the second-year of a Bill Parcells reclamation project.
How am I certain this team is deeper as a result? Because projecting the 53-man roster is five times harder to do now than it was at this point last year. So difficult that I'm predicting a player who started 16 games last season (offensive lineman Ike Ndukwe) might be on the churn list if he doesn't start dominating during training camp, especially if everyone in his unit begins the season healthy.
And that wasn't the only tough projection to make when breaking down the training camp roster, guessing on which players make the 53-man squad, and which eight players might find a home on the practice squad (without factoring in the Trifecta's waiver wire pickups made after the second wave of cuts).
