Another Round 1 NFL draft trade? Dolphins GM Chris Grier will ‘look at our options’
back-to-back trades out of their original No. 3 overall position and into No. 6 — but he also left the door open for yet another trade.
If that happens, it may not be until the Dolphins are on the clock next Thursday evening.
“As the draft falls and gets towards our pick, if someone wants to call and they make an aggressive pitch to us, we’ll evaluate it, look at the board, and look at our options,” said Grier, Miami’s general manager.
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The Dolphins owned the No. 3 pick as part of the return on the Laremy Tunsil trade with Houston, but San Francisco GM John Lynch valued it to land a quarterback. Even after he offered a package that included the No. 12 overall pick and first-rounders in 2022 and 2023, Grier didn’t feel his work was done.
“Once they gave us the offer that we were comfortable with taking, we decided it was important for us also as well to get back into that top 10,” Grier said. “And once it looked like San Francisco could happen, we kind of reached out to a few teams just gauging whether they would move or not.”
