i made my feelings known about waddle at 6 earlier in this thread. i've made peace with it ... if he's the kind of game breaking freak everyone says he is and he can catch a slant and blow past LBs and safeties for 60, 70 yard TDs the pick will likely have been worth it. he needs to have some odell beckham to his game, bringing explosiveness to an offense where the QB isn't consistently pushing the ball downfield. i want to see him do damage on RPOs -- if he's used in the henry ruggs role it will have been a failed pick.
putting that aside, i love that this draft hit one theme consistently: athletes. i think this is the first dolphins draft i can remember where there seemed to be an organizing principle to the picks of getting more athletic with every selection. and they were able to do so without compromising on production. who knows if all of these guys will work out, but when you can consistently hit the combination of drafting highly athletic players who were also very productive in college, i'm not going to find much to criticize.
phillips brings a unique skillset to the defense and athleticism on the DL that we haven't seen since jason taylor. i liked holland given his athleticism, production, and the emphasis on DB in flores' system -- we should constantly be replenishing the secondary and not resting on guys like rowe, mccain, brandon jones. if igbinoghene is a player we will have really turned the dial up on the athleticism in the secondary. i won't pretend to be an expert on OL scouting but i like that eichenberg can really move his feet per his testing -- i might have taken cosmi or radunz, but i definitely prefer eichenberg to walker little and carmon so i think grier played that run of tackles well. the price to move up will be worth it if eichenberg is an above average starter. long is another productive athlete and i think given tua's skillset it makes sense to keeping looking for good tight ends.
as others have mentioned, this draft will hinge on whether waddle + eichenberg is a better combo than sewell + second round WR. personally, i don't think elijah moore, rondale moore, tutu atwell will be impact guys in the NFL given their size, so for me it's a question of whether waddle outplays guys like terrace marshall jr, josh palmer, dyami brown etc. i would still choose sewell + marshall or brown but i don't think it's a completely obvious choice. the dolphins had a plan going into the draft of taking a WR from tier one and a tackle from tier two and they executed it -- it goes against my understanding of value but i think can still work out given the players involved.
overall, the last two drafts feel like the best the dolphins have done in talent acquisition in a really, really long time. and if they want to move on from tua they should be in a position to do what the niners did and cash in future draft capital for a higher ceiling prospect knowing they have built out the infrastructure around him, or perhaps be in the market for a star level veteran QB given the location and ross' ability/willingness to invest in the team.