The Miami Dolphins made a Day 3 deal in the fourth round of the 2024 NFL draft, trading a 2025
third-round pick to the Philadelphia Eagles, and selected Tennessee running back Jaylen Wright with the 120th overall pick.
The next few years will tell us if this draft-day deal grades out in the positive for GM Chris Grier, who’s no stranger to moves made within the draft process, as history shows
The 49ers Trade Up for RB Isaac Guerendo in Round 4
Starting in his first year as general manager in 2016, Grier moved from 42nd to 38th with the Baltimore Ravens to draft Xavien Howard. The move cost the Dolphins a fourth-round
pick (107th overall).
The next draft in 2017, Grier was again active. He traded a pair of fifth-round picks (#166 and #184) to the Eagles for their fifth-rounder, #164) overall to select guard Isaac Asiata.
Later, Grier dealt a a seventh-round pick (#223) to the Tampa Bay for a seventh-round pick (#237) used on wide receiver Isaiah Ford as well as a seventh-round pick in 2018.
Grier stayed put in 2018, yet 2019 saw a move to set up a move. He sent a second-round pick #48 as well as a 2019 fourth-round pick #116 and picked up a 2019 second-round pick (#62), a
2019 sixth-round pick (#202) and a 2020 second-round pick.
Grier then flipped that #62 pick and added a 2020 fifth-rounder to the Arizona Cardinals for quarterback
Josh Rosen.
In 2020’s pick-rich draft of 11 selections, Grier made multiple moves again with the draft process. He moved back from 26th to 30th with Green Bay, picking up a fourth-rounder (#136), and selected Noah Igbinoghene with that 30th selection.
On day three, Grier sent a pair of fourths to the Texans (#136 and #141) to jump to #111 and draft guard Solomon Kindley. He then sent a fifth-round pick to San Francisco (#153) for running back Matt Breida.
He wasn’t done with the Eagles yet and he passed on a fifth-round pick (#173) and a seventh (#227) for pick No. 164, which became cornerback Curtis Weaver. He ultimately completed a seventh-round deal
with Seattle, trading No. 251 to the Seahawks’ 2021 sixth-round pick.
In 2021, Grier advanced to the second round with a trade leading to Liam. Eichenberg. The Giants sent their 42nd pick to Grier to select the Notre Dame offensive lineman and sent New York the No. 50 pick and a third-round pick for 2022.
Grier has offensive lineman Ereck Flowers to Washington for a seventh-round pick in 2021. round pick (#244), became Gerrid Doaks.
No trades for the previous two years, but Grier returned to his entrepreneurial ways with the Wright movement.
