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🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Miami Dolphins face high-stakes decisions as draft day approaches: Who will land in Miami—Caleb Downs, Mansoor Delane, or a game-changing offensive lineman? Kyle Crabbs unpacks ideal first-round combinations, doomsday draft scenarios, and potential trade ups that could reshape the franchise’s talent pipeline. Key questions include whether Miami should double-dip at wide receiver, which positions can wait until free agency or the 2027 NFL Draft, and how extensions for De'Von Achane, Aaron Brewer, and Jordyn Brooks could impact cap space. Insights on Bobby Slowik’s offensive scheme, Malik Willis’ fit, and the strategic value of targeting guard, tackle, and defensive back add depth to the analysis, while comparisons to Rueben Bain, Francis Mauigoa, and Jeremiyah Love highlight Miami’s evolving draft strategy.

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0:00.0	What is the ideal combination for the first round for the Miami Dolphins?
0:05.9	We're exploring that and a whole lot more on Power to the Pod,
0:08.9	our Mailbag episode two weeks out from the draft.
0:17.3	You are Locked on Dolphins, your daily Miami Dolphins podcast, part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:27.9	All right, Miami.
0:29.3	Welcome to another episode of Locked on Dolphins.
0:31.8	It is your team every day here on the Lockdown Network.
0:35.7	I'm your host, Kyle Crabs, a lifelong Miami Dolphins fan, host of Lockedon
0:38.9	Dolphins co-host of Lockdown, NFL scouting, author of Touchdown Miami on Substack, NFL staff
0:42.6	writer for A to Z sports special welcome.
0:45.5	And thank you to each and every one of you who are tuning into this mailbag episode of the
0:51.2	show.
0:51.5	So tapped into some of the touchdown Miami community,
1:03.5	uh, which is author on substack, right? And ask for some thoughts about what they wanted to hear about two weeks out from the start of the 2026 NFL draft. We're kind of entering into
1:09.5	the window where a lot of teams are going to start
1:11.2	wrapping up their 30 visits and their local visits and they're going to finalize the board
1:17.6	and everybody's going to go home and let it marinate and then they can come in the week of
1:22.1	the draft and then we're going to be pushing playing, getting rock and rolling. And this is obviously
1:25.5	a monumental period for the dolphins.
1:29.0	So I tapped it in the mailback and said, what a great time, two weeks out.
1:33.8	To hear from you guys, what's on your minds about the draft?
1:38.4	So I've got a dozen questions or so.
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