Dolphins Draft Impact on This Year?

[Irishfinfan1]

James to start week 1.
Landry will probably be our 4th or 5th receiver so should see some gametime, as a rookie he won't be focussed on by Ds so could even be a red zone threat.
Turner I'm not sure, sounds like he needs a bit of work and with Brenner, Thomas, Smith and possibly even Garner at guard he will do well to start week 1.
After that it is really special teams that they can hope to make an impact as rookies, but people like Aiken and Lynch could see a bit of playing time in certain situations.
It is really last year's class that we should be seeing much better impact than last year.

 

[So Be]

James to start week 1.
Landry will probably be our 4th or 5th receiver so should see some gametime, as a rookie he won't be focussed on by Ds so could even be a red zone threat.
Turner I'm not sure, sounds like he needs a bit of work and with Brenner, Thomas, Smith and possibly even Garner at guard he will do well to start week 1.
After that it is really special teams that they can hope to make an impact as rookies, but people like Aiken and Lynch could see a bit of playing time in certain situations.
It is really last year's class that we should be seeing much better impact than last year.

I really like guys like Landry, Aikens. and Tripp for special teams, where we went from being VG to horrible last year.

 

[beanh8er]

Tripp will probably start over Phillip Wheeler because that guy is just so ****ing awful.

 

[Lilseb93]

Tripp will probably start over Phillip Wheeler because that guy is just so ****ing awful.

I really hope so.

 

[beanh8er]

I really hope so.

I feel the same way about Wheeler as Mike Singletary does about Vernon Davis. He is an affront to the LB position. I'd rather have a ****ing tackle dummy out there than Philip Wheeler.

 

[Awsi Dooger]

There's a well-researched, statistically proven study that shows how draft picks fare by round. 3rd-round picks become NFL starters 1/3 of the time. After round three it falls off a cliff. 4th round picks are less than 20% likely to be NFL starters. Beyond that it's truly needles in haystacks. This isn't speculation; it's literally looking at what's happened over the past 7 years to picks in different rounds. Trading down from the second round on down is just F'n retarded.

I agree. Seattle may have had success in the middle rounds recently. That should be ignored. More likely than not it's short term.

It's certainly not applicable to our situation. We were screwing around in the late second through fourth rounds. I was shaking my head because I would like to abandon those spots completely, instead of prioritizing them.

Do whatever it takes to pick 2-3 times in the top 40-42 picks every year, and then gamble on normal acquisition in the 5th round and later. I'll take my chances above depending on 3rd and 4th round goofs.