https://www.thephinsider.com/2020/3...hins-cameron-wake-frank-gore-ryan-fitzpatrick Dolphins add a 4th and 7th rounder I'm pretty excited about this 4th round selection. We might grab a quality player at that spot!
We are happy with that and then there's. The New England Patriots led all teams with four comp picks, including two in the third round (Nos. 98 and 100). New England will have 14 total picks in the 2020 draft.
At the start of 2019 we were hoping for a 3rd round pick, primarily from letting Jawuan James walk. However because injuries cut short his playing time (only played 3 games iirc) it turned out to be a 4th round pick. It shows a flaw in the draft/develop/let walk/compensatory pick cycle that some people advocate. It is a cycle that New England, The Ravens and the Steelers seem to use. The flaw is that the players you let walk have to contribute for other teams to consistently get high picks. For a team like the Dolphins that doesn’t have a core of home developed talent to build on and replace the people who walk away it becomes too much dependent on outside factors to be reliable.
Agree, but I think it's still a good strategy and I am all for it. We just haven't built our core yet. If we manage to get any offers, I am also for the strategy of trading back a pick this year and getting a pick, one round higher, next year.
In theory you can eventually get 3 or 4 first round picks every year by trading 2nds for future firsts and 3rds for future 2nd and so on. Once you have that again in theory you can trade back and then trade your extra picks for more future picks. The problem is that to make that theory to work you have to have 2 or 3 years with very light drafting while you stockpile your future resources and I don’t think any team would be disciplined enough to make it work in reality.