Early 2019 mock drafts insist Miami will be terrible

Mock draft season never ends, and there are already plenty out there for 2019. Based on where they are picking, it would seem the consensus is that the Dolphins will be terrible.

We are just a few days removed from the 2018 NFL Draft, but unless your new, you understand that draft season never ends. There are already a number of way-too-early 2019 mock drafts out there. The idea is to give you a concept of who some of the top names will be next year, and who to look out for in college football.

I, on the other hand, look at them from a different perspective. I like to see how they view teams will fair for the upcoming season. When it came to the Miami Dolphins there was an obvious similarity among all mock drafts: That the Dolphins will be very bad.

Now, I only glanced through a few such as Matt Miller‘s of Bleacher Report, Rotoworld, Sporting News, and SB Nation. I’m currently still suffering from draft nausea so I can only take so much at the moment. In every one that I looked at, however, the Dolphins were projected to pick extremely high. Almost all of them had Miami picking within the top 5, as high as #2 overall. I did see one that had them picking at #6, but none lower.

My first instinct was because the Dolphins did not draft a quarterback at any point of the draft. However, both the Jets and the Bills are picking right at the top alongside Miami so that can’t just be it. It’s a clear indicator that many believe this will be another cake walk for the Patriots to take hold of another AFC East crown, possibly in record fashion.

While I understand the philosophy that Miami may not be a playoff team in 2018 (I’m not convinced they are either), it’s a bit much to believe they’ll be so bad that they’ll be picking within the top 5. Yes, they won’t have Jarvis Landry, Ndamukong Suh, or Mike Pouncey, but it appears that people who don’t follow the Dolphins are giving those players too much credit.