Dolphins

The Dolphins picked up first-round G Kadyn Proctor, while G Jonah Savaiinaea enters the second year of his career. When asked how they’ll be aligned, HC Jeff Hafley responded that they want to let both players get comfortable on one side before considering moving them around.

“(Kadyn) Proctor, you’ll see on one side right now, Jonah (Savaiinaea), you’ll see on one side right now, and we’ll just keep him on those sides and let them get comfortable. So it’s case by case, and I think that’s our job as coaches is to figure that out. Some guys, we’re still not sure yet. Practice has been limited. Team reps have been limited, and we’ll figure that out in training camp,” Hafley said, via the team’s site.

Hafley mentioned that Savaiinaea appears to be “more comfortable” on the right side.

“Yeah, he seems more comfortable there. Talking to Zach (Yenser) and to Matt (Applebaum), they seem to believe that he’s more comfortable there, but it’s also Year 2 for him, so he’s going to be more comfortable, period. Whether he played on the left side, whether he played on the right side, he’s got more cumulative reps and muscle memory on the one side. Is it a mental thing? Is it a physical thing? If you ask Jonah, he feels good on the right side. So whether it’s mental, whether it’s physical, whether it’s confidence, whether it’s Year 2, our job is to make sure he has a better year than he did last year, which you would expect going from Year 1 to Year 2,” Hafley said.

Although Proctor is slated to begin his career at left guard, there’s been talk of him eventually moving out to left tackle. Hafley explained that they want to avoid overloading the rookie and ensure he’s comfortable heading into the season.

*“Yeah, there’s things we can do in individual and do that, so he’s working the fundamentals and the technique, whether it’s pass protection, whether it’s in the run game. But when we’re just talking about schematically learning the playbook, we believe that it’s his best bet not to overload him, like we were just talking about to try to learn too much, and then when it comes down to actually having to play it, you’re not ready to play anything. I’ve been a part of and I’ve even made the mistake in my past, of you take one player and you say, all right, I’m going to teach him this position, this position. Then you start playing him and it’s like, man, that’s not fair what we just did to that guy. He’s not ready to play. He didn’t get all those reps over and over again. We’re really limited in what we can do right now. OTAs is not training camp. I mean, you guys saw practice. It is what it is. I respect the rules and we’re going to follow the rules of OTAs, but this isn’t like let’s...