No matter what the Miami Dolphins choose to do in April’s NFL Draft, the team is going to have a rare opportunity to haul significant talent and help speed up the rebuild. And despite the demand that could exist for a prized quarterback, the Dolphins would be wise to know their limits for potential trade scenarios and not compromise those standards.

And with the Dolphins owning three first-round selections, you can be sure that opposing teams are going to try to milk them from the Dolphins and play on Miami’s need to find a long-term answer at quarterback.

But here’s the deal: There are only two other teams in the 2020 NFL Draft who possess multiple first-round selections, and neither of them pick particularly close to Miami’s first selection in the first round.

The other two teams with multiple first-round picks are the Jacksonville Jaguars (pick Nos. 9 and 20) and the Las Vegas Raiders (Nos. 12 and 19). Even if either team were interested in jumping the Dolphins to target a quarterback, Miami owns the trump card by picking 5th. According to the NFL Draft trade value chart, the difference between the 5th and the 9th picks in the NFL Draft is the value of the 55th overall pick. The difference between 5th and 12th? The value of the 40th overall pick.

So just by owning the 5th overall pick, the Dolphins automatically have the value of an extra 2nd-round pick built until their potential offering to a team like the Detroit Lions, who pick 3rd overall.

And if the Lions were to ask Miami for two first-round picks as part of a bidding war, Miami can compromise without costing themselves their premier picks in 2020 — by offering the 5th pick and one of the team’s two first-round selections in 2021.

Miami has no shortage of options, and it will be fun to see how it plays out. But their expectation, given the draft capital of the rest of the first-round contenders, should be to own three first-round picks in 2020 — no matter what.