IT'S SHOWTIME! Final Thoughts Ahead Of The Miami Dolphins' MASSIVE 2026 NFL Draft Effort

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🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Miami Dolphins’ NFL Draft strategy faces a crucial test as a fierce offensive lineman run shakes up the first round. With top prospects like Mendoza, Reese, Love, Bailey, Downs, Tyson, Styles, Tate, Delane, and Ioane off the board early, the Dolphins must pivot quickly—will Rueben Bain become Miami’s foundational defensive anchor? Host Kyle Crabbs breaks down his final mock draft, revealing insider buzz, shifting league dynamics, and Miami’s need to adapt on the fly. Key decisions at picks 11 and 30 highlight pressing questions: Can the Dolphins land a starting-caliber lineman, or will roster gaps remain? Crabbs analyzes the risks of getting “sniped,” how trade-back scenarios could pan out, and why fans shouldn’t get locked into a single outcome. With prospects like Emmanuel McNeil-Warren and Kadyn Proctor in play, Miami’s draft weekend promises high drama and franchise-altering stakes.

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0:00.0	Well, folks, we made it.
0:07.0	You are Locked on Dolphins, your daily Miami Dolphins podcast, part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:19.3	All right, Miami, welcome to another episode of Locked on Dolphins. It is your team every day. All right, Miami, welcome to another episode of Locked on Dolphins.
0:23.6	It is your team every day here on the Lockedon Network.
0:26.6	I'm your host, Kyle Crabs, a lifelong Miami Dolphins fan, host of Lockedon Dolphins,
0:30.5	co-hosted Locked on Lockedon NFL scouting, author of Touchdown Miami on Substack NFL
0:34.1	Staff Rider for A to Z Sports, special welcome and shout out to each and every one of our everydayers who are tuning in for officially Showtime Pod.
0:45.5	It is Thursday, April 23rd, also known as the first day of the 26 NFL draft.
0:58.5	And a little over 12 hours from as I sit down and record this now, it's about 5 a.m.
0:59.5	Who's counting?
1:08.3	The Miami Dolphins and the rest of the league will go through the first 32 of a seven-round NFL draft.
1:15.9	And one of the staples every year of working in the draft industry is you do your final mock draft, you submit it to a site called the huddle report.
1:20.5	It's a competition every single year.
1:23.2	And you sit down and you put together your mock draft and you try to apply all the buzz from Jake Laser and Peter Schrager and Jeremy Fowler and Ian Rappaport and Adam Schaefter.
1:36.8	But you recognize and realize that a lot of the information out there is like the broad brush stuff, like the big picture
1:46.9	conversation stuff is probably factual and like the very specific details of this player
1:53.9	and this team being linked at this spot and whatever.
1:59.3	Doesn't have a great hit rate, right?
2:01.3	Because at the end of the day, everybody's trying to manipulate the market in their favor.
2:08.5	And you put together this mock draft, which I put mine in for A to Z sports last night for the submission for the Hodel Report.
2:16.1	And it took some swings.
2:17.7	You know, it was, this is, there was a couple of trades inside the top 10.
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