March 20, 2026, 4:14 p.m. ET
The Miami Dolphins traded wide receiver Jaylen Waddle to the Denver Broncos on March 18 for a bevy of 2026 NFL draft picks.
Those picks are setting Miami up for a variety of motion within the early rounds.
Denver despatched Miami its Nos. 30, 94 and 130 picks, giving the Dolphins seven alternatives within the first 100 picks. That’s two greater than every other workforce and greater than twice as many because the per-team common of three.1. This 12 months, the primary three rounds whole precisely 100 picks.
Only the Pittsburgh Steelers come shut, with 5 top-100 alternatives, together with No. 76 from the Dallas Cowboys and No. 99 as a compensatory decide. Pittsburgh additionally holds probably the most general picks in 2026 with 12. Miami, Jacksonville, Baltimore and New England all at the moment have 11.
No different workforce has greater than 4 picks within the prime 100, making the hole between Miami and the remainder of the sphere unusually extensive.
Looking at draft history, the Dolphins’ 2026 haul could tie an all-time league high. Since the NFL became a 32-team league in 2002, only one team — the Arizona Cardinals in 2024 — has had seven picks in the first 100 selections, per a count of Pro Football Reference data.
Miami final got here shut in 2020, when it held six top-100 picks and chosen Tua Tagovailoa fifth general. In phrases of whole picks, Minnesota in 2020 had 15 whole, that means the Steelers are nonetheless three away from the document.
Of course, there’s nonetheless loads of time for the order to change before the draft begins in Pittsburgh on April 23. And the draft itself tends to reshape the board in a rush — there have been 35 draft-related trades final 12 months in the course of the occasion.
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