For the second time this year, the Miami Dolphins are doing business with the Arizona Cardinals. The Dolphins have traded fourth-year running back Kenyan Drake to the Cardinals. The reported return for Drake is a conditional sixth-round draft pick that could become a fifth-round selection based on stipulations.
The value for Drake falls in line with our speculated value for the Dolphins running back earlier this month. Getting anything of substance for Drake was always going to be a challenge based on his positional value and his status as an expiring contract.
And so the Dolphins, on the doorstep of the Tuesday’s trade deadline, are taking the best available offer — a decision made easier by the emergence of RB Mark Walton over the course of the past few weeks.
Drake’s legacy with the Dolphins will be a bittersweet one. Talent has never been the problem for the former Alabama running back, and his big plays have been some of the most exciting in recent memory. Yet for all of the excitement, consistency has escaped Drake — just as his ability to win over multiple coaching staffs in Miami has. The end result? Drake will finish his rookie contract out west in Arizona for the second half of 2019 before looking to sign a second contract.
