Notes

2021 NFL Draft Notes – Day 1
DOLPHINS MAKE MULTIPLE SELECTIONS IN FIRST ROUND FOR SECOND STRAIGHT YEAR
  • After setting a franchise record with three first-round picks in 2020, the Dolphins followed with another multi-pick first round in 2021.
  • It marks the seventh time the Dolphins have used multiple first-round picks in the same draft:

YEARS THE DOLPHINS HAVE HAD MULTIPLE FIRST-ROUND PICKS

YEAR PICK PLAYER POS COLLEGE
1966 1 Jim Grabowski RB Illinois
1966 2 Rick Norton QB Kentucky
YEAR PICK PLAYER POS COLLEGE
1968 8 Larry Csonka RB Syracuse
1968 27 Doug Crusan T Indiana
YEAR PICK PLAYER POS COLLEGE
1976 17 Larry Gordon LB Arizona St.
1976 19 Kim Bokamper DE San Jose St.
YEAR PICK PLAYER POS COLLEGE
1989 9 Sammie Smith RB Florida St.
1989 25 Louis Oliver DB Florida
YEAR PICK PLAYER POS COLLEGE
1992 7 Troy Vincent DB Wisconsin
1992 12 Marco Coleman LB Georgia Tech
YEAR PICK PLAYER POS COLLEGE
2020 5 Tua Tagovailoa QB Alabama
2020 18 Austin Jackson T USC
2020 30 Noah Igbinoghene CB Auburn
YEAR PICK PLAYER POS COLLEGE
2021 6 Jaylen Waddle WR Alabama
2021 18 Jaelan Phillips DE Miami (FL)
DOLPHINS DRAFT ALABAMA PLAYER IN FIRST ROUND FOR SECOND CONSECUTIVE SEASON
  • The Dolphins selected WR Jaylen Waddle with the sixth overall pick of the draft.
  • It’s the second consecutive season the Dolphins drafted a player from Alabama in the first round following QB Tua Tagovailoa’s selection at fifth overall in 2020 and the second straight year Miami picked an Alabama player with its first selection in the draft.
  • Miami has drafted three Alabama players in the first round of the past four drafts.
  • Waddle becomes the 13th Crimson Tide player to be selected by the Dolphins:
YEAR ROUND PICK POS PLAYER
2021 1 6 WR Jaylen Waddle
2020 1 5 QB Tua Tagovailoa
2020 2 56 DT Raekwon Davis
2018 1 11 S Minkah Fitzpatrick
2016 3 73 RB Kenyan Drake
2004 7 222 LB Derrick Pope
2001 5 156 T Shawn Draper
1986 6 163 DT Brent Sowell
1984 4 109 RB Joe Carter
1980 1 21 DB Don McNeal
1980 2 48 C Dwight Stephenson
1979 3 61 RB Tony Nathan
1977 2 40 DT Bob Baumhower
  • This marked the first time in franchise history the Dolphins selected a player at sixth overall. No. 10 is the only position Miami has never selected within the first 30 overall picks of the draft.
  • The selection of Waddle at No. 6 is the highest the Dolphins have ever drafted a wide receiver.
PHILLIPS BECOMES FIRST HURRICANE DRAFTED BY THE DOLPHINS SINCE 2012
  • Miami selected DE Jaelan Phillips with the 18th overall pick of the draft.
  • Phillips is the first player from a Florida college drafted by the Dolphins since 2013, when Miami selected three players from Florida (LB Jelani Jenkins, RB Mike Gillislee and K Caleb Sturgis) in the same draft.
  • He’s the first player from the University of Miami selected by the Dolphins since 2012, when Miami drafted two Hurricanes – DE Olivier Vernon and RB Lamar Miller.
  • Phillips is the second player in Dolphins history to be drafted at No. 18 overall, joining T Austin Jackson, who was the 18th overall pick in last year’s draft.
  • Phillips becomes the 18th Hurricane drafted by the Dolphins. That’s the most draft picks from any school in Dolphins history:
YEAR ROUND PICK POS PLAYER
2021 1 8 DE Jaelan Phillips
2012 3 72 DE Olivier Vernon
2012 4 97 RB Lamar Miller
2004 1 19 G Vernon Carey
1997 1 15 WR Yatil Green
1991 1 23 WR Randal Hill
1991 8 220 DB Roland Smith
1990 12 315 DB Bobby Harden
1988 6 153 RB Melvin Bratton
1984 2 53 LB Jay Brophy
1982 5 120 DT Bob Nelson
1982 12 331 WR Mike Rodrigue
1973 7 182 RB Tom Smith
1968 2 54 TE Jim Cox
1968 10 253 TE Joe Mirto
1968 15 388 LB Ken Corbin
1967 10 241 DB Tom Beier
1966 6 42 LB Ed Weisacosky