The Miami Dolphins added Texas Tech wide receiver Erik Ezukanma, California outside linebacker Cameron Goode and Kansas State quarterback Skylar Thompson with their three picks on the final day of the 2022 NFL draft on Saturday. After the Dolphins started their draft with the third-round selection of Georgia linebacker Channing Tindall on Friday,…
The Miami Dolphins added Texas Tech wide receiver Erik Ezukanma, California outside linebacker Cameron Goode and Kansas State quarterback Skylar Thompson with their three picks on the final day of the 2022 NFL draft on Saturday. After the Dolphins started their draft with the third-round selection of Georgia linebacker Channing Tindall on Friday, Ezukanma was chosen in the fourth round, No.125 overall, Goode was picked with the team’s early seventh-rounder, No.224, and Thompson with the later seventh-round pick at 247. It was mildly surprising Miami let its four selections go by without picking an offensive lineman, specifically a center to compete with Michael Deiter. The team addressed last year’s troublesome offensive line from 2021 with free-agent pickups of left tackle Terron Armstead and guard Connor Williams but no center. “We were following our board,” Dolphins general manager Chris Grier said following Saturday’s slate of picks. “We don’t reach for people. We tried to move up a couple of times, but we had limited resources in terms of being able to move around. As we said before, just because the draft’s over doesn’t mean we’re going to stop looking to improve the roster.” It’s a possible sign that the Dolphins could still look to add a center in free agency, where former Cleveland Browns starter J.C. Tretter remains available. “We wanted competition at every position,” Grier said. “We still do have some competition with the offensive line group, with what we’ve gone through here in the spring.
