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http://www.miamidolphins.com/pressbox/pressreleases/pressreleases.asp?contentID=1971
SR. VICE PRESIDENT – FOOTBALL OPERATIONS/PLAYER PERSONNEL RICK SPIELMAN
“I want to give you a run-down of what happened today in the draft and some of the things we tried to do. In the fourth round, Cleveland took both of the linebackers that we had targeted. They had Ben Taylor off and they had (Kevin) Bentley off. We also were looking at the kid that went to the Giants, (Nick) Greisen. What happened in the fifth round, we started calling Houston at their top pick in the fifth round and worked down 18 teams, trying to get up. There were two linebackers we had targeted and we were trying to move up in the fifth to get one of those two. We got shut out all the way down to Houston’s next pick, where we had an agreement. The only firepower we had as far as a trade was our fourth rounder next year. So we were willing to give our fourth rounder next year to one of these teams that were between Houston and the second Houston pick and no team was willing to do that. So Kevin McCadem, the kid from Virginia Tech that was a strong safety was one of the guys we had targeted as a Will linebacker. He had very good workouts and ran 4.48 at about 215 pounds. Atlanta took him. As it continued, we targeted Nick Greisen, who was in one of our Top-20 visits, and actually had Nick on the phone and the Giants had him on the phone as well. The Giants chose him. They had the pick right before Houston and took Greisen, or we would have pulled the trade off with Houston with the second pick in the fifth round for our fourth next year. Then after that, we just kind of sat back and let the board fall to us and looked at some guys that came to us. We took what we needed, as far as some positions, like Coach (Wannstedt) said, but also the best players we felt were available as well.ââ‚Â
SR. VICE PRESIDENT – FOOTBALL OPERATIONS/PLAYER PERSONNEL RICK SPIELMAN
“I want to give you a run-down of what happened today in the draft and some of the things we tried to do. In the fourth round, Cleveland took both of the linebackers that we had targeted. They had Ben Taylor off and they had (Kevin) Bentley off. We also were looking at the kid that went to the Giants, (Nick) Greisen. What happened in the fifth round, we started calling Houston at their top pick in the fifth round and worked down 18 teams, trying to get up. There were two linebackers we had targeted and we were trying to move up in the fifth to get one of those two. We got shut out all the way down to Houston’s next pick, where we had an agreement. The only firepower we had as far as a trade was our fourth rounder next year. So we were willing to give our fourth rounder next year to one of these teams that were between Houston and the second Houston pick and no team was willing to do that. So Kevin McCadem, the kid from Virginia Tech that was a strong safety was one of the guys we had targeted as a Will linebacker. He had very good workouts and ran 4.48 at about 215 pounds. Atlanta took him. As it continued, we targeted Nick Greisen, who was in one of our Top-20 visits, and actually had Nick on the phone and the Giants had him on the phone as well. The Giants chose him. They had the pick right before Houston and took Greisen, or we would have pulled the trade off with Houston with the second pick in the fifth round for our fourth next year. Then after that, we just kind of sat back and let the board fall to us and looked at some guys that came to us. We took what we needed, as far as some positions, like Coach (Wannstedt) said, but also the best players we felt were available as well.ââ‚Â