A bizarre event has Dolphins fans Super high after Tunsil is drafted at #13
Twilight Zone music was jamming in my head after Tunsil was selected.
Unbelievable is all that can be said about Miami’s 1st round pick. Dolphins fans are super high after Laremy Tunsil is drafted with the 13th pick – and they should be!
First, if you haven’t heard: Just before the 2016 NFL Draft, a video of Laremy Tunsil, smoking marijuana from a bong, “appeared” on his Facebook account. It started his plummet as franchises didn’t know what to make of this unprecedented event and took him off their board.
Let me make a few things clear: the video was two years old. He has passed every drug test since. This was sabotage of this kid’s career as the account was hacked. He is currently being sued by his stepfather over an a apparent frivolous attempt to exact money.
This bizarre set of circumstances that not even the best pay per head bookie could have bet on has the top player in the draft now on Miami’s roster.
So, Mike Tannenbaum has parlayed the 8th overall pick into Laremy Tunsil, the top pick in the draft, Byron Maxwell, and Kiko Alonso. Simply getting Tunsil alone at the bargain price is a masterstroke. But, if you get players out of Maxwell and/or Also no, you could have a franchise-changing event.
The video that sabotaged Tunsil is nearly two years old.
True, Dolphins still need pieces, the Corner and Guard position sticks out like a sore thumb, but Miami has just received an unbelievable stroke of luck. It has felt to me from the beginning that this wasn’t going to be like so many past bleak season, that something good was afoot. But, there is no way I expected this. And while I’m sorry that Tunsil had to suffer this, I am ecstatic for the Dolphins.
There is still a lot of work left, but what a beginning to this draft for a team and fan base that has been on hard times for so long. Are you feeling it?! Go Fins!!!