According to NBC Sports’ Peter King, the Miami Dolphins are in the running to acquire Arizona Cardinals quarterback Josh Rosen. During King’s mock draft, he teased that the Dolphins were the team most actively looking into Rosen. What a fascinating development this could become for Dolphins fans hoping for a franchise quarterback in 2019.

“No team in the league — from what I’ve heard — has spent more time researching Josh Rosen in recent weeks than Miami,” King wrote in his “Football Morning in America” column Monday.

It is going to be one wild ride. The NFL Draft is just around the corner, and the Cardinals continue to let the football world twist in the wind on their intent with the first overall pick. Should the Cardinals pull the trigger on Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray, the Cardinals will suddenly have a surplus of quarterback prospects — the other being Rosen.

And should the Cardinals draft Murray, they’ll then be tasked with finding the best deal that they can get for Rosen — who will understandably be upset after the Cardinals threw him to the wolves as a rookie before deciding to bail. And remember: The Cardinals would be doing this despite trading up for the UCLA product last April.

How? If the Cardinals make Murray the pick, they’ll have lost essentially all their leverage on the trade market for Rosen. And if you’re Arizona, you can’t possibly keep him. So Miami may well be able to pick at No. 13 — or trade down and pick up extra Day 2 selections — and then still offer Arizona a draft pick (No. 78 overall seems like a good starting point) knowing full well the Cardinals’ hands are tied and they’ll need to move on from last year’s top pick.

And best of all, thanks to Rosen’s guaranteed money being Arizona’s problem, the Dolphins would have several years of control for Rosen while only being on the hook for a slight fraction of the cap hit typically designated to top-10 picks. So if the experiment doesn’t work, what exactly would Miami have lost? A third-round pick and a few million dollars a year in base salary.