Shortly after picking offensive tackle Patrick Paul in the second round of the 2024 NFL draft, Miami Dolphins general manager Chris Grier said the lineman really, really wanted to wind up in aqua and orange.
“On the visit here, he had expressed to us, ‘I don’t want to be anywhere but here,’” Grier said. “And then all through early this morning up to our pick, it was a barrage of text messages, not from him, from his agent saying, ‘The kid is driving me crazy. He wants to be here.’”
