The Miami Dolphins will boast a monstrous amount of 2020 NFL Draft capital by the time next week’s draft opens for business on Thursday night. The Dolphins, with fourteen total picks at their disposal, are going to have flurries of picks coming at the beginning and the end of the 2020 draft — the perfect chance to infuse loads of new talent onto a roster that is in dire need of as much support as it can possibly get. But all those picks do come with a cost. Most notably, they’re going to gobble up a majority of the Miami Dolphins’ 2020 salary cap.
But given the number of fresh bodies we’ll see the Dolphins bring into the fray, it’s a cost well worth taking on.
Exactly how much cap hangs in the balance? According to OverTheCap.com, the Dolphins’ draft class is going to cost the Dolphins just short of $19M when you add everything up. Here’s a full breakdown of the Dolphins’ picks and their 2020 cost against the salary cap.
Round 1 – #5 – $5.504M in 2020 cap
Round 1 – #18 (Pittsburgh) – $2.48M in 2020 cap
Round 1 – #26 (Houston) – $2.25M in 2020 cap
Round 2 – #39 – $1.47M in 2020 cap
Round 2 – #56 (New Orleans) – $1.03M in 2020 cap
Round 3 – #70 – $886k in 2020 cap
Round 4 – #141 (Compensatory) – $733K in 2020 cap
Round 5 – #153 – $692k in 2020 cap
Round 5 – #154 (Pittsburgh) – $691k in 2020 cap (currently not credited to Miami on OverTheCap)
Round 5 – #173 (Los Angeles) – $680k in 2020 cap
Round 6 – #185 – $657k in 2020 cap
Round 7 – #227 (Indianapolis) – $634k in 2020 cap
Round 7 – #246 (Kansas City) – $628k in 2020 cap
Round 7 – #251 (Compensatory) – $628k in 2020 cap
In all, a grand total of $18,965,331M in 2020 salary cap will be credited to the Dolphins’ ledger. Who says building through the draft is cheap? It certainly isn’t when you’ve build a treasure trove of picks. And with the Dolphins credited by OverTheCap with $22,776,722M in available cap space, it’s safe to assume that the Dolphins won’t be pulling any crazy moves out of thin air to bring on expensive veterans — unless of course a deal that’s too good to be true rolls around between now and next Thursday.
