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30. Miami Dolphins (via Denver Broncos) — Makai Lemon, WR, USC

The Dolphins use the pick they got from the Jaylen Waddle trade to replace Jaylen Waddle. Lemon isn’t nearly as dynamic as Waddle, but he profiles as a starting-caliber slot wide receiver. The Dolphins need to start rebuilding their wide receiver depth somewhere, so they might as well start here and see where the winds take them and their $179 million in dead cap.

The run on offensive linemen (and wide receiver, really), on top of the whole A.J. Brown “thing,” has me thinking the Patriots look at adding the heavy-handed and hardworking Parker to their defense. Parker might not be the high-end pass rusher the Patriots really want to add, but he would help give them a bunch of strong and powerful defenders who can stifle run games and push the pocket on quarterbacks. It might be too “hat on a hat,” but there really is something about the stone-fisted Parker with the other group of brawny Patriots defensive linemen that I like the more I think about it.