Recruiting priorities shift based upon team needs in a given year. The success, or failure, in recruiting a certain position affects the ability and priority in recruiting said position in subsequent years.
In 2017, Miami struggled mightily in recruiting Wide Receivers. The whiffs were notable — Jerry Jeudy, Trevon Grimes, DeVonta Smith, and Jeremiah Hollomon are just some of the names that Miami was after and missed out on. Miami was luckily able to get Jeff Thomas and Mike Harley (as a flip) late in that cycle, and that covered a bit of the issue, but didn’t completely solve it.