The Miami Dolphins hit the reset button after the 2018 season and chose Christian Wilkins as one of the rebuild’s first bricks with a first-round pick in the 2019 NFL Draft.
Wilkins logged 18 tackles more than any other defensive tackle in 2022 and disrupted opposing offenses by leading the league in PFF’s ‘stops’ metric, which notes a tackle that results in a failure for the offense. He closed his fourth season with 58 stops, 11 more than DeForest Buckner in second place.
The two-time first-team All-American while with the Clemson Tigers scored his first-career touchdown against the New York Jets in 2021, but that doesn’t change the fact that 2022 was his top season after setting career bests in total tackles (98), forced fumbles (2), passes defended (6) and stuffs (17.