Ollie Gordon II is not going to neglect his slide within the 2025 NFL draft any time quickly. The Miami Dolphins‘ sixth-round decide goes to put on a reminder of that weekend on his chest and again each time he fits up within the NFL with a No. 31 jersey.
“The Dolphins went out and selected me,” Gordon advised reporters Friday. “It is 32 groups within the NFL and 31 groups handed on me so why not use it [as motivation]?”
Gordon’s slide to the second-to-last spherical within the draft wasn’t a shock after he put up mediocre numbers in his remaining season at Oklahoma State. Whereas he earned the 2023 Doak Walker Award, recognizing faculty soccer’s finest operating again, he managed solely 880 dashing yards in 2024 after recording 1,732 within the season prior.
However the Dolphins are hopeful they will get the 2023 model of Gordon.
“It’s not the primary time that we’ve come throughout an analysis even at that exact college the place you will have somebody have a very huge yr adopted by perhaps a yr that they didn’t anticipate or was underwhelming for them,” Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel stated of Gordon shortly after the draft ended.
“The largest factor is you attempt to meet the participant, have interaction with him and see what the expertise, the way it’s affected him. You’re hoping that it burns a hearth inside and I believe it was fairly evident after we visited with him that he was desirous to show himself. So I believe the ’23 tape was very spectacular and based mostly upon our interactions with him, we really feel optimistic that’s the model that we’re going to enhance upon shifting ahead.”
The first step for Gordon is studying find out how to be a member of the Dolphins offense.
“Coach Mike (McDaniel) is aware of find out how to use his gamers, and I’m simply able to be part of that, be capable of assist the group anyway I can,” Gordon stated. “Even when that’s taking part in particular groups, however simply to be there and simply to see what’s happening – Jaylen Waddle, Tyreek Hill operating all around the discipline. I really feel like it is going to be enormous to see.”
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