We've certainly underachieved with the talent we've had. But these stats are very advantageous split for Miami.
- Miami's had 4 1st Round picks in the last 5 drafts
Miami's had 4 1st Round picks in the last 11 drafts (about to be 12)
- Miami's 4 1st Rounders have been disappointing
Dorsett, Flowers (hopefully has already turned it around), Burns (hopefully can still turn it around), Njoku (TBD - still very young)
- Miami has had 8 players taken in Rounds 1-3 of the last 5 drafts. Louisville & NC St. have also had 8
5 of those 8 were in the 2015 draft. It's about to be "Miami has had 3 players taken in Rounds 1-3 of the last 5 drafts"
Miami still produces a ton of guys who get drafted. The overall numbers look great. We're just producing very few NFL starter level players anymore.
1st point
this tweet is talking about in the last 5 years not 11 years. The recent trends is more prevalent in this discussion
2nd point
Sort of true but there is hope.
Flowers just signed a 10 million a year contract and played like a pro bowl guard last year with the redskins
Dorsett had been one of the more efficient receivers in the league in terms of catching passes the last 2 years. He was off to a great start last season but when Gordon got back and they traded for Sanu his time was cut considerably. He also had a few injuries. Should thrive being the #3 in Seattle and with Russell Wilson who is arguably the best deep ball thrower in the game.
burns has been *** outside of his first year or 2 in the league. Hopefully he turns it around.
On njoku it’s ridiculous to say he’s been anywhere near a disappointment. Of course he has to work on his hands to be more consistent but He was hurt his 3rd year and just came off having a 670 yard plus season in his second year. If he’s what a disappointment is to you then what is tj hockenson who went top 10 in the draft as a tight end and had only 376 yards 2tds this last season.(njoku rookie numbers were better than that too). or another first round tight end in Hayden hurst who has been way worse than njoku through 2 years in the league.
3rd point
so what?, they are still collecting checks and playing in games. And believe it or not miami is not just putting backups in the league like you are trying to insinuate. You mean not producing perennial pro bowl type of players? You have a case there but very few nfl starters? That’s wrong. Of course it’s not how we use to be in our early 2000 era, but why are you comparing it to that though? Recruit better classes and you get better talent it’s simple . Y’all act like it’s easy to make/stay on an nfl roster especially if you aren’t picked in a certain round
steeter and Washington never started in the leagues. The rest did in that draft class and did pretty well. 2 pro bowlers out of that class.
All starters. Linder 50 million dollar contract.
Henderson has started in 29 of his 39 games he’s played in the nfl. His career just has been derailed in recent seasons due to Crohn’s disease but he was off to a good start starting his first 26 games to start his career. Allen hurns ended up as an undrafted guy and signed a 40 million dollar contract so another starter level player.
this whole group outside chickillo (who played as a reserve) has played starter level minutes for the majority of their career. Even chickillo had 8 sacks in the last 4 years as a reserve
2017 rayshawn Jenkins is a high level starter for the chargers
Njoku starter
alquadin muhammad has started a number of games in recent years and regularly plays and get sacks and pressures.
Adrian Colbert has started in more than half of the games he’s played in the last 3 years.
Williams , kaaya, coley didn’t do anything in the league.Elder at best is a depth piece but so what, every school has those.
2016
burns starter for his first few seasons
bush started some games ,primary backup.
Norton obviously had the unfortunate loss of an arm.
mcintosh in a limited role had 2 sacks In 2019 , they have invested a lot at dt with dexter Lawrence, hill from ncstate, Dalvin Tomlinson. From bama and even Leonard Williams now so it’s not really a path for him to start
Chris herndon- hurt majority of last year but the jets are sky high on him.Had great production as a rookie
chad Thomas-finished the season as a starter and was productive. He’s coming along well.
Braxton berrios- had the best punt return average in the league and played some as a spot receiver for the jets.
Cowboys high on Joe Jackson. He may not have started last season but they chose him over a 2017 first round edge rusher in taco charlton so that says something.
mile Jackson didn’t do much of anything, got picked up by the lions active roster after the cowboys waived him during the season.
redwine emerged as a starter late last season and flashed a lot
jaquan Johnson, depth player
Travis homer ended up starting their last 2 games or so for the Seahawks.
I say all that to say this, Every player you put out is not going to be a starting level player but that doesn’t mean Miami is putting out “very few starting level players” as my breakdown in the last 7-8 draft classes indicated otherwise. Majority of them start/started games and weren’t just backups