DOLPHINS SELECT TE MIKE GESICKI IN SECOND ROUND
  • Gesicki is the third-highest drafted tight end in Dolphins history and the highest tight end selected by the franchise since TE Andre Tillman was selected 38th overall in the 1974 NFL draft. The highest tight end picked by Miami was TE Jim Mandich at 29th overall in the 1970 NFL draft.
  • Gesicki becomes the fifth tight end drafted by the Dolphins in the second round:

ALL-TIME DOLPHINS SECOND-ROUND PICKS (TIGHT ENDS)

YEAR PICK PLAYER SCHOOL
1968 54 Jim Cox Miami (Fla.)
1970 29 Jim Mandich Michigan
1974 38 Andre Tillman Texas Tech
1976 49 Loaird McCreary Tennessee State
2018 42 Mike Gesicki Penn State
DOLPHINS SELECT LB JEROME BAKER IN THIRD ROUND
  • Baker became the first Dolphins linebacker selected in the third round since LB Channing Crowder was picked with the 70th overall pick in 2005.
  • The last time the Dolphins selected a linebacker in the first three rounds of the NFL draft was in 2017, when Miami picked LB Raekwon McMillan (54th overall) in the second round. McMillan and Baker were college teammates who ranked first (McMillan, 102 tackles) and second (Baker, 83 tackles) in tackles for Ohio State in 2016.
  • Baker is the 10th linebacker selected by the Dolphins in the third round:

ALL-TIME DOLPHINS THIRD-ROUND PICKS (LINEBACKERS)

YEAR PICK PLAYER SCHOOL
1971 74 Dale Farley West Virginia
1975 75 Gerald Hill Houston
1979 63 Mel Land Michigan State
1985 83 Alex Moyer Northwestern
1997 92 Derrick Rodgers Arizona State
1997 93 Ronnie Ward Kansas
1998 79 Brad Jackson Cincinnati
2001 88 Morlon Greenwood Syracuse
2005 70 Channing Crowder Florida
2018 73 Jerome Baker Ohio State
WE ARE …
  • Gesicki is the 12th player selected by the Dolphins from Penn State and the second tight end:

ALL-TIME DOLPHINS DRAFT PICKS FROM PENN STATE

YEAR RD PICK POS PLAYER
2018 2 42 TE Mike Gesicki
2016 6 204 CB Jordan Lucas
2010 1 28 DE Jared Odrick
1993 1 25 WR O.J. McDuffie
1992 8 209 LB Andre Powell
1987 5 132 T/G Chris Conlin
1982 3 80 CB Paul Lankford
1978 3 81 WR Jimmy Cefalo
1975 10 256 TE Joe Jackson
1974 6 136 DT Randy Crowder
1971 11 282 T Vic Surma
1969 7 174 G John Kulka
OH-IO
  • Baker is the 14th player the Dolphins have selected from Ohio State, which is now tied for the third-most picks of any school in Dolphins history. Miami (Fla.) leads the way with 17. Tennessee has had 15 players drafted by the Dolphins while Florida also has 14 picks.
  • Each of Miami’s past three selections from Ohio State have been linebackers:

ALL-TIME DOLPHINS DRAFT PICKS FROM OHIO STATE

YEAR RD PICK POS PLAYER
2018 3 73 LB Jerome Baker
2017 2 54 LB Raekwon McMillan
2010 7 252 LB Austin Spitler
2009 4 108 WR Brian Hartline
2007 1 9 WR Ted Ginn Jr.
1999 6 192 P Brent Bartholomew
1989 5 121 C Jeff Uhlenhake
1988 6 156 RB George Cooper
1988 1 16 DE Eric Kumerow
1987 12 322 QB Jim Karsatos
1986 7 193 LB Larry Kolic
1984 6 165 LB Rowland Tatum
1983 11 306 G Joe Lukens
1975 4 100 LB Bruce Elia
QUICK HITS
  • The 2018 draft marks just the eighth time in the Dolphins’ 53-year history that the team has selected players with each of their top three draft choices in their original slots, based on the team’s previous year’s record. The other seasons are 1969, 1980, 1982, 1988, 1990, 1997 and 2017.
  • The Dolphins have now selected 11 straight players from Power 5 conferences. All three of the team’s picks from the 2018 draft, all seven from the 2017 draft and Miami’s final pick from 2016 (TE Thomas Duarte) played at Power 5 schools.
  • The last time the Dolphins selected two Big Ten players on the same day was Day 3 of the 2015 NFL draft when the team picked S Cedric Thompson (Minnesota) and CB Tony Lippett (Michigan State) in the fifth round.