Dolphins return strong D-line, which may be key to success in defense in 2022 – Reading Eagle

userApril 21, 2022

After Emanuel Ogba re-signed in defense of the Miami Dolphins, the most important component of the defensive front, which has potentially changed this offseason, has been strengthened.

Dolphins, as they are going to do in the secondarybring back their line-ups from a defense that cemented the team’s mid-season turn to rebound 1-7 with eight wins in the last nine games of 2021.

The Defense Front returns its leader to Agba (nine). Universal linebacker Christian Wilkins is back after a groundbreaking third NFL season in 2021, as is Zach Siler’s defensive selection and Rake Davis ’nose. Outside linebacker Ceylan Phillips, who is entering his second season, may also be tossing between standing and sticking his hand to the ground, which he did best at the University of Miami in 2020 to make his choice in the first round.

While practically tuned with a rotation ahead that will also include Adam Butler, the Dolphins could come up with something that might add another line-up on Day 3 of the draft, especially given the need for another passer. Miami’s first choice after exchanging elections in the first and second rounds in the upcoming draft is at the end of the third round, while it also has a choice in the fourth round and two seventh rounds.

Ogba’s four-year $ 65 million deal was struck in the final minutes before talks with other teams opened on March 14. In the offseason, when the Dolphins also traded for star receiver Tyrick Hill and signed a valuable fight to free agent Teran Armstead, this is a move that may prove to be the most underestimated on the team.

In addition to the fact that Ogba made passes, collecting nine bags each of the two seasons in Miami, he found ways to influence the pass in opposition in different ways. More often than not, he just misses the bag and beats the quarterback anyway – hitting 45 quarterback hits in the last two seasons together – and he actually led the NFL defenders in the passes he defended in 2021, out of 12.

Last season, Wilkins was equal to the NFL leader in wrestling among defenders when he made a significant leap in his third professional season after coming out of Clemson in the first round of 2019.

Sealer, a former Baltimore Ravens seventh-round pick who has had remarkable success in Miami since he was fired for failure at the end of the 2019 season, has spent another productive season in 2021. He had 62 rebounds, six kills and two sacks, playing almost half of the Dolphins ’defensive shots.

Davis, a big 6-7, 330-pound body inside, was sometimes uneven last year in his second campaign, but his return from a pass three weeks after a knee injury in the opening series of Week 1 gave dolphin protection an important role. raise. Davis finished with 28 selections and a half bag.

Butler came to Miami after being known in New England as a 295-pound lineman with the ability to throw passes, but last year he made just two sacks as a rescuing player. In the previous two years, the Patriots had 10 members.

Jenkins returns a veteran presence that can provide depth in the nose with its 335-pound skeleton. He amassed 16 selections in seven games in 2021, but did not act for more than half the season.

The Dolphins also have a defensive part of Dashon Hall and a defensive podcast of Benito Jones as players who can fight for a place on the roster at training camp. Jones was just re-signed.