The Final Week of Tin's Fins

Ha! Got your attention now? No, it's not the final week but I am going to be away on a long debaucherous week starting Friday night and though I may be able to update in a twitter-like fashion, I won't have time (or energy) to do anything in-depth until I get back on April 1st.

Fortunately the pro days will be all but wrapped up by then and there won't be anything going on until the draft so we'll have time to catch up. Ok let's get started!

Monday sees a couple of very interesting pro days occurring that are of interest to the Dolphins.

LSU has several 3rd/4th round ranked players that are probably considered to be not superstars but possibly contributors in the NFL, so I'd expect a big turn-out there. Tyson Jackson, Darry Beckwith, and Marlon Favorite could be possible Dolphin interests.

Eastern Michigan has only one guy I’m aware of at all who’s a senior (they have an amazing DB but he’s only a sophomore so we’ll talk about him two years from now): Daniel Holtzclaw. We discussed him last week as someone the Dolphins have already been talking with. He reminded Mr Bungle of a taller version of Zach Thomas, and I concur with that assessment, at least on the college level but see below for a quote from an actual football-person. I suspect Chad Henne probably knows a thing or two about him as well as he played against him a few times at Michigan.

Test Football Academy Owner and Trainer, Brian Martin, compares Holtz-claw favorably to Dallas Cowboys' veteran linebacker Zach Thomas, who like Holtzclaw is considered a bit undersized (6-foot-1, 246 pounds) by NFL standards, but whose tenacity has made him a feared linebacker.

“If teams can get past his (Holtzclaw's) size, they will have found a solid performer,’’ Martin said.

The only other noticeable pro day is at Florida State, where everyone and their mother will be to see Everette Brown, and the Dolphins might like to see wide receiver Greg Carr while they’re there as well.