The 2015 Draft is about a month away so speculation on which teams will draft which players will only continue to grow. The Draft is always an extremely interesting aspect of the NFL, because not only do teams have the chance to build their teams with talented youth, but rumors and strategies for drafting become rampant. Many football gambling fans believe that Miami will select one of the top three wide receivers in the draft if any are available at number 14 (White, Cooper, Parker), however many things could unfold between now and when Miami is on the clock, so anything is possible. One possibility that is beginning to gain momentum is football gambling fans believing that Miami may take a shot on Georgia running back Todd Gurley.
The only knock on Gurley is that he suffered a severe knee injury last season, and he may not even be 100% healthy to start the season. Obviously when you are drafting as high as number 14 you are hoping that the player will be an impact player, but at the very least you are counting on that player being able to start from day 1. So drafting a player with a significant injury like Gurley would definitely be considered a risky move, however high risk also tends to led to high reward.
Even with Gurley’s season ending injury he still racked up 911 rushing yards, 9 touchdowns and a 7.4 yards per carry average, and he is considered the best running back to enter the draft in the last 3 years. Some football gambling fans are even saying he could be the next Adrian Peterson, which beyond being a huge compliment, is also ironic considering he had a knee injury entering the draft as well.
The one small issue I would have if the Dolphins decided to use their first round pick on Gurley is that even though running back is a position that we need some help in, there are other positions like WR, LB, G, CB, and S that would all be considered a greater need for the team. However, one beneficial possibility is that if Gurley is still on the board at 14 and if Hickey believes he will be there in the late teens or early 20’s he could opt to trade back, and still draft Gurley and in the process pick up another 2nd round pick, which in a draft this deep would be extremely valuable to a team like the Dolphins, a team that has multiple needs. Even if Miami did not trade back and instead selected Gurley at the 14th spot I would not be disappointed, because he clearly has the talent to be one of the best running backs in the entire NFL. This guy is a work horse that can do it all well; run, catch and block.
If he can be as good as every football gambling fan believes he can be, then Miami would have one of the best running back tandems in all of football (the quick elusive Lamar Miller, paired with the bruising and barreling Todd Gurley) Gurley in all likelihood will be on the board if Miami decides to select at the number 14th spot, so the question to the rest of the Miami Dolphins news fans is would you select him despite his knee injury or that the phins have other more pressing position needs?