Notes

2024 NFL Draft Notes – Day 3
MIAMI TRADES UP WITH PHILADELPHIA TO SELECT RB JAYLEN WRIGHT IN FOURTH ROUND
  • The Dolphins traded a 2025 third-round pick to Philadelphia for the No. 120 overall pick and used that fourth-round pick to select RB Jaylen Wright.
  • Wright is the 16th player all-time to be selected by Miami from the University of Tennessee, but the first in 10 years when Miami picked T Ja’Wuan James in the first round (19th overall) of the 2014 NFL Draft.
  • Wright is the first running back Miami has ever selected from Tennessee.

ALL-TIME DOLPHINS DRAFT PICKS FROM TENNESSEE

Year Rd Pk Ovr Player Pos
2024 4 20 120 Jaylen Wright RB
2014 1 19 19 Ja’Wuan James T
2013 3 15 77 Dallas Thomas T
2006 1 16 16 Jason Allen DB
2003 2 17 49 Eddie Moore LB
1996 5 18 150 Shane Burton DT
1990 8 12 205 Thomas Woods WR
1988 8 19 212 Harry Galbreath G
1985 7 27 195 Fuad Reveiz K
1974 10 26 260 Gary Valbuena QB
1972 6 25 155 Ray Nettles LB
1969 5 24 128 Karl Kremser K
1969 15 11 375 Chick McGeehan WR
1968 7 7 172 John Boynton T
1966 2 1 9 Frank Emanuel LB
1966 8 1 64 Bob Petrella DB
  • With Miami’s selection of RB De’Von Achane in the third round (84th overall) of the 2023 NFL Draft, the Dolphins have now selected running backs in the top four rounds of back-to-back drafts. The last time Miami did that was 2011-12, when Miami took RB Daniel Thomas in the second round (62nd overall) of the 2011 NFL Draft and RB Lamar Miller in the fourth round (97th overall) of the 2012 NFL Draft.
DOLPHINS TAKE LB MOHAMED KAMARA IN FIFTH ROUND
  • The Dolphins selected Colorado State LB Mohamed Kamara in the fifth round (158th overall).
  • Kamara is just the third player Miami has drafted from Colorado State and at No. 158, he is the highest-picked Ram in Dolphins history.

ALL-TIME DOLPHINS DRAFT PICKS FROM COLORADO STATE

Year Rd Pk Ovr Player Pos
2024 5 23 158 Mohamed Kamara LB
2001 6 25 188 Rick Crowell LB
1975 14 23 361 John Graham QB
  • Kamara is the eighth linebacker all-time that Miami has drafted in the fifth round. Some of Miami’s fifth-round linebackers include Pro Football Hall of Fame LB Zach Thomas (1996) as well as LB Bryan Cox (1991) and LB Andrew Van Ginkel (2019).

LINEBACKERS DRAFTED IN THE FIFTH ROUND BY MIAMI

Year Rd Pk Ovr Player Pos School
2024 5 23 158 Mohamed Kamara LB Colorado State
2019 5 13 151 Andrew Van Ginkel LB Wisconsin
2014 5 31 171 Jordan Tripp LB Montana
2012 5 20 155 Josh Kaddu LB Oregon
1999 5 9 142 Bryan Jones LB Oregon State
1996 5 22 154 Zach Thomas LB Texas Tech
1991 5 2 113 Bryan Cox LB Western Illinois
1974 5 26 130 Cleveland Vann LB Oklahoma State
MIAMI DRAFTS WR MALIK WASHINGTON AND S PATRICK McMORRIS IN SIXTH ROUND
  • With a pair of sixth-round selections, the Dolphins chose WR Malik Washington at No. 184 overall and S Patrick McMorris at No. 198 overall.
  • WR Malik Washington is just the third player from the University of Virginia to be selected by Miami and the other two went on to have very good rookie seasons for Miami.
  • RB Terry Kirby was a third-round pick (78th overall) in 1993 and his 1,264 scrimmage yards were the most in Dolphins rookie history, while RB/WR Tommy Vigorito was a fifth-round pick (138th overall) in 1981 and named the team’s Outstanding Special Teams player as a rookie that season.

ALL-TIME DOLPHINS DRAFT PICKS FROM VIRGINIA

Year Rd Pk Ovr Player Pos
2024 6 8 184 Malik Washington WR
1993 3 22 78 Terry Kirby RB
1981 5 27 138 Tommy Vigorito RB
  • S Patrick McMorris is Miami’s sixth all-time pick from California-Berkeley and the first since LB Cameron Goode in 2022.
  • At No. 198 overall, McManus is the earliest Cal player that Miami has drafted since TE Joe Rose was picked at No. 185 overall (seventh round) in 1980.

ALL-TIME DOLPHINS DRAFT PICKS FROM CALIFORNIA

Year Rd Pk Ovr Player Pos
2024 6 22 198 Patrick McManus S
2022 7 3 224 Cameron Goode LB
1991 11 24 302 Ernie Rogers G
1985 12 27 335 Ray Noble DB
1980 7 20 185 Joe Rose TE
1971 15 22 386 Bob Richards G
DOLPHINS CLOSE DRAFT IN SEVENTH ROUND WITH WR TAHJ WASHINGTON
  • Miami used its final pick of the draft to select WR Tahj Washington in the seventh round (241st overall).
  • Washington is the 10th player all-time from USC to be selected by the Dolphins:

ALL-TIME DOLPHINS DRAFT PICKS FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Year Rd Pk Ovr Player Pos
2024 7 21 241 Tahj Washington WR
2020 1 18 18 Austin Jackson T
2009 3 23 87 Patrick Turner WR
2005 5 0 0 Manuel Wright* DT
2004 4 6 102 Will Poole DB
1995 6 23 194 Jeff Kopp LB
1992 10 15 267 Raoul Spears RB
1990 5 28 137 Leroy Holt RB
1982 1 24 24 Roy Foster G
1973 9 26 234 Karl Lorch DT

* Supplemental draft selection

QUICK HITS
  • The Dolphins selected players from all five Power Five conferences this year as well as the Mountain West Conference.

2024 DOLPHINS DRAFT PICKS BY CONFERENCE

RD PICK OVR NAME POS COLLEGE CONFERENCE
1 21 21 Chop Robinson LB Penn State Big Ten
2 23 55 Patrick Paul T Houston Big 12
4 20 120 Jaylen Wright RB Tennessee SEC
5 23 158 Mohamed Kamara LB Colorado State Mountain West
6 8 184 Malik Washington WR Virginia ACC
6 22 198 Patrick McMorris S California Pac-12
7 21 241 Tahj Washington WR USC Pac-12
  • Miami selected two wide receivers on the same day of the draft for the first time since 2012, when Miami picked WR B.J. Cunningham in the sixth round (183rd overall) and WR Rishard Matthews in the seventh round (227th overall) on the NFL Draft’s final day.