Anthony ranks all 32 NFL teams with The Game Day’s 2021 NFL Draft Grades: Team Rankings For Winners & Losers. Which teams selected the best 2021 NFL Draft class?
2021 NFL Draft Team Grades
- 2021 NFL Draft Team Grades: AFC East | AFC North | AFC South | AFC West
- 2021 NFL Draft Team Grades: NFC East | NFC North | NFC South | NFC West
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AFC EAST 2021 NFL DRAFT GRADES
Buffalo Bills: B+
- Round 1: Gregory Rousseau, EDGE, Miami (FL.) (30th OVR)
- Round 2: Carlos Basham Jr., EDGE, Wake Forest (61st OVR)
- Round 3: Spencer Brown, OT, Northern Iowa (93rd OVR)
- Round 5: Tommy Doyle, OT, Miami (OH) (161st OVR)
- Round 6: Marquez Stevenson, WR, Houston (203rd OVR); Damar Hamlin, S, Pittsburgh (212th OVR); Rachad Wildgoose, CB, Wisconsin (213th OVR)
- Round 7: Jack Anderson, S, Texas Tech (236th OVR)
The Bills are one of those teams that could have gone one of two ways. They could have drafted for luxury, going all-in on a win-now asset. Or, they could have addressed needs. Buffalo went the needs route, adding a pair of pass rushers in the top 61 picks. The Bills need to beat the Chiefs. Taking a page out of the Buccaneers’ Super Bowl 55 blueprint appears to be their direction. I have no qualms about that.
With their next two selections, the Bills doubled down on one position once again. This time, along their offensive front. Highlighted by Spencer Brown, a third-round swing tackle out of Northern Iowa, could develop into a starter in the future. Brown might not see extensive playing time in year one, but he is a developmental project player at one of the most important positions in football that did not cost the Bills very much capital to land.
Miami Dolphins: A
- Round 1: Jaylen Waddle, WR, Alabama (6th OVR); Jaelen Phillips, EDGE, Miami (18th OVR)
- Round 2: Jevon Holland, S, Oregon (36th OVR); Liam Eichenberg, OT Notre Dame (42nd OVR)
- Round 3: Hunter Long, TE, Boston College (81st OVR)
- Round 7: Larnel Coleman, OT, Massachusetts (231st OVR); Gerrid Doaks, RB Cincinnati (244th OVR)
The Dolphins had four picks inside the top 42. Jaylen Waddle and Jaelen Phillips have all the ceiling in the world but do come with injury concerns while Jevon Holland and Liam Eichenberg were borderline first-round talents, more so the latter, selected in round two.
If Waddle and Phillips could remain on the field, they should make an immediate impact on a team that won 10 games but missed the playoffs last season. What’s more, the selection of Waddle, pairing up with Tua Tagovailoa — they were teammates at Alabama — suggests that the impending second-year signal-caller better figure out in this season or he may be out of a job in the forthcoming offseason, a la 2020 Drew Lock. The Dolphins also added Will Fuller on a one-year deal in free agency, future cementing my “figure it out or else" forecast on Miami’s quarterback.
If Phillips and Jevon Holland are not Week 1 starters, they will be primed for a significant role on one of the best defenses in the NFL. Holland brings more ball-hawking versatility to a defense that accumulated a league-best 29 takeaways in 2020.
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