Miami Dolphins Get A DOUBLE DOSE Of Great News…

Miami Dolphins Get A DOUBLE DOSE Of Great News…

[Music] The Miami Dolphins get some very positive injury news for what feels like the first time in a very long time. This entire training camp and preseason has been people dropping like flies. Kater Kohu, Alexander Madison, Arty Burns. Well, Miami finally gets a positive injury update on a couple players in their secondary. I’m Nick Rolloloff. We’ll talk about all Dolphins injury news today. The five players we will be specifically taking a look at is Cam Smith, Dante Trader Jr., Elijah Campbell, Darren Waller, and Leam Mikeinberg. But before we get into some of these injury updates, make sure you subscribe and make sure you have your notifications turned on because we are continuing to put out content a lot. Two videos every day, weekly live shows on Tuesdays, as well as watch parties for every Dolphins game. and you don’t want to miss any content we put out, subscribe and make sure you click that notification icon. Click turn for all, not just personalized so you get notified every video we put out. We’ll start with Cam Smith, the former second round pick in the 2023 NFL draft. He is back at practice. It’s about time. He’s missed the last six practices with a soft tissue injury. Mike McDaniel never specified where the injury actually is, but we know he dealt with a hamstring injury last year which cost him the beginning of the season. Maybe it’s the same, maybe it’s not. But this is an important time for Cam Smith because he is buried on this Dolphins depth chart. This was the unofficial depth chart that Miami put out last week before their first preseason game. They had him on the third line behind Ethan Bonner, Jack Jones, and even Jason Marshall Jr. And if I’m going to be honest, like I probably would have him here as well, just due to the fact that he has not been able to be on the football field. And with him missing the last six practices with this injury, this is a massive week for Cam Smith. I personally believe that he is on the outside looking in of the 53man roster projection. If I had to put out the 53man roster tomorrow for Miami, it would not include Cam Smith. And with two joint practices against the Detroit Lions and then a preseason game against them as well on Saturday, this is an opportunity for Cam Smith to get rid of the narratives, rise up the depth chart, and prove that he should be on this Miami Dolphins official roster when it comes in early September. The issue that he’s also facing is that he doesn’t have a guaranteed contract. Some second round picks now do have fully guaranteed deals. That was the hold up this year. Jonas Savinai has a fully guaranteed deal, but that was not a thing when he signed his rookie contract a couple years ago. So, if Miami did decide to move on from Cam Smith and cut bait with the former second rounder, they would get $1.4 million back in their cap because his contract, at least right now, is not guaranteed. So, it puts Cam Smith at a little bit of an even more disadvantage because it’s not like he has a guaranteed deal that makes Miami want to keep him more. No, if he can’t play, he continues to use a struggle and he’s hurt again. Well, he’s going to be cut. So, it’s a big week for Cam Smith. But, it’s good that he’s finally back practicing for this football team. Another piece of the secondary is returning. Dante Trader Jr., the safety from Maryland who Miami selected in the fifth round of this NFL draft. He is finally returning to practice. He looked good in the first couple practices of training camp. Suffered a lower body injury. It was not specified. It’s not required that Mike McDaniel Miami does that in the preseason in training camp, but he returned to practice as well on Tuesday. So, both Cam Smith and Dante Trader Jr. are available for both joint practices and assuming the preseason game on Saturday as well. And I’m going to talk more about Dante Trader here in a second, but I want to know what player you are most excited about returning to practice. Is it Cam Smith to finally see what he can prove, or is it Dante Trader Jr., the rookie that’s been out for the first two weeks of his training camp experience? Let me know your thoughts down in the comments. But you might be wondering why Dante Trader Jr. has been out. I mentioned it. It has been a lower body injury, not specified. He picked it up in the first couple of practices in camp. And listen, I’ll be honest. I’m not on site. I’m not watching practices, so I can’t use my own eyes to see who is doing well and who is struggling. But the early reports for Dante Trader Jr. were relatively positive. So, he now comes back with an opportunity to claim a spot on this Dolphin safety room. Because coming into camp, it was a crowded six-man room with Patrick McMorris on the outside looking in. But with Ashton Davis still out for an indefinite period. He’s going to miss time during the regular season, but he is not going to be out for the year. Likely going to probably start the season on IR. You get two people on your roster that you can carry through the cutdown day, but put him on IR. So now Dante Trader Jr. has the chance to be the fourth safety for this Dolphins football team. If you project how it looks right now, it is Ma Fitzpatrick. It’s if Efatu Malfanu, it’s Elijah Campbell. And then that next spot’s questionable. It could be Dante Trader Jr. It could be Patrick McMorris, who by the way, I thought was solid in the preseason game against the Bears. He had an interception, but it was mostly thanks to Ethan Bonner being in tight coverage and getting a hand on the football, popping it up for Mc Morris. Either way, Dante Trader Jr. and Mc Morris, I think, will be fighting for that fourth safety spot. But I do anticipate all five of those players we just mentioned making this Dolphins 53man group. And we’ll stay in the safety room because we got an official update from Mike McDaniel on Elijah Campbell. We shared on a video yesterday that Campbell said he was fine following leaving the Sunday preseason game in the first half with a lower body injury. McDaniel said officially it is a day-to-day injury for him and there is a chance that he participates in some of these joint practices and maybe even in the preseason game on Saturday. Now, if I would be honest here, I’d probably hold him out of the game against the Lions. No need to play him if he’s slightly banged up because he does have a role on this team. And if you look at it, he’s going to be the third safety for the Miami Dolphins if we start the season tomorrow. You look at the opening secondary for Miami against Chicago on Sunday when Miami came out in their starting number one defense. This is the back five. They had Bradley Chub, Chop Robinson, Bonito Jones, and Zack Cer up there. They had Tyrell Dodson, and Jordan Brooks. And then they had these five. I mean, that is what Miami had. Those were the 11 players that Miami had starting on defense. So Campbell clearly is someone Miami has at least ideas about using. I think the Dolphins are going to use a lot of three safety looks this season. Um so Campbell does have a starting role. I feel like if he’s able to stay healthy, which is why it’s important and a good thing that he is just dayto-day. More injury news to come here in a second. But what an insane sale going on right now at chatsports.com/miah hoodie. $37. That is $32 off the original $69 price. Sizes are in stock. Links in the description and comments of today’s video. Take advantage right now. One more time, chatports.com/miah hoodie. Out another week could be the three players that missed the preseason game on Sunday. Mike McDaniel said that Tyreek Hill, Jaylen Wadd, and Jaylen Phillips are in the conversation to play this week, but it is currently undetermined if they will even play in the joint practices on Wednesday and Thursday with the Detroit Lions. Apparently, Jaylen Wadd is dealing with a rib injury that he sustained in the Bears joint practice when he kind of got lit up a little bit there. If that’s the case, there’s no reason to rush him back. You got to keep him healthy for week one. And if Wadd is a little bit banged up, there’s no need to play Tyreek Hill either because you can’t have him get hurt. Jaylen Phillips, I’d like to see as he’s still trying to get back to 100% full speed after recovering from a torn ACL. I’ll be honest, when it comes to these three players, I would simply keep them out another week. To me, there’s no need to have those three push it in the preeason. Like, what are we doing here? Are we really jeopardizing the regular season time in those games that actually mean something just to try to get them reps in a preseason game? No, that doesn’t sound like a smart thing to do. So, with three of your best players, three of your leaders in those guys, keep them out. Don’t risk another injury occurring. We’ll stay on the negative injury front with two offensive linemen, Liam Iikenberg and Andrew Meyer. Two of your top interior lineman depth pieces. Iikenberg. I know a lot of people don’t like him, but the truth is he is one of your best defense or best depth guys on this offensive line. He can play all five positions on the O line. Doesn’t do it really well, but he can do at least a serviceable job compared to Jackson Carman and Keon Smith. Andrew Meyer, by the way, was arguably one of the top offensive linemen on the roster before he picked up this injury. McDaniel said they’re not returning anytime soon. It’s not ideal and it feels like it’s going to be a long time until we see these guys and they’re probably not going to be ready for week one based off the verbiage used by Mike McDaniel. And with Liam Iikenberg still being on the pup, I have a hard time believing he would be ready for week one for the Miami Dolphins. And this is a major concern. Like I talked about on our live show on Tuesday. Make sure you subscribe and join us for that if you haven’t already. But this starting five up front could be one of the better offensive lines in all of football. I really mean that. Like if they stay healthy, they’re going to be a really solid group. But you look at the depth behind them and it’s just absolutely atrocious. Iikenberg and Meyer are hurt. Brunskill is eh. Boram is atrocious. Keon Smith sucks. Carmen’s the worst offensive lineman I’ve ever seen. Jaylen McKenzie shouldn’t be rostered in a National Football League. and Germaine Afetti was embarrassing on Sunday against the Bears. The point is the second line and third line O lineman on this roster are absolutely horrific. And I hate to be mean. I actually don’t hate it because it’s my job. They should not be available to be on an NFL roster. Like I’m telling you, I hate to be doom and gloom Nick Rolloff today. If the Dolphins sustain an injury to one of their starting five offensive linemen that keeps one of them out for an extended period of time, this offensive line is going to crumble immediately. Chris Grew did not do enough to address the depth on this offensive line. I know you can’t have starters across the board as backups, but you need better players than Jackson Karman and Keon Smith. I’m sorry. It’s a serious concern. I mean, you look at the first week grades from PFF on this O line. Nothing changed. They were the worst graded run blocking offensive line in the entire NFL preseason week one. And they were 30th in pass blocking. That is not an indictment on the starters. I want to make that abundantly clear because in the first quarter where some of the starting offensive line played, if not all of them, they were dominant. There was actually a point in the game that I saw in their live grading system, Miami had the number one graded offensive line in the preseason. That was after quarter number one. But once quarters number two, quarter three and four happened, that’s where you get to this. It was an atrocious performance by the second and third lines of this group and it’s a serious concern. Are you concerned like me? Type Y for yes or type Ben for no. Let me know your thoughts. I don’t know how you aren’t concerned about the depth on this entire offensive line. I’ll say it for a third time. Starters, I think they’re going to be awesome, but they also need to stay healthy because one injury happens and we’re screwed. Speaking of injuries, Darren Waller’s out another week, folks. Mike McDaniel after saying late last week that he anticipates Waller returning to Dolphins practice for the first time activated off the pup list um this week that we’re currently in. Well, not going to happen. McDaniel said it would not be fair to Darren Waller to activate him off the pup list during joint practices with the Detroit Lions. I’m getting nervous, man. I understand you don’t want to bring him back for joint practices, but we’re inching closer and closer to the regular season. Is Waller gonna have any opportunity to get into the flow of this offense to get any rapport and chemistry with Tua Tong of Aloa? I don’t know, man. And he didn’t play all of last season. He was retired. And how am I supposed to believe this is the Dolphins number one tight end? That’s where it was listed on their first unofficial depth chart. Like, I don’t know. I I I said it when the trade was made. I was optimistic. I was intrigued. But I would have signed another tight end and made another move. I would have signed Noah a fan. I think you should have. Uh unclear if Miami even offered him a contract. Unclear if he would have accepted it. Maybe he really was fening and jawing at the idea of playing with Joe Burrow in the Cincinnati Bengals. Maybe it was never a chance. But I have a hard time believing if Miami offered him a decent enough contract, he wouldn’t have signed here knowing that he would have been the number one starter. I know the tight end position isn’t that important for Miami, but I can’t do a full year of Pharaoh Brown and Julian Hill, especially with how poor they looked in the preseason game on Sunday. I know it’s preseason, but like, man, it was ugly. It was ugly. All right, that’ll do it for today’s show. Appreciate everybody watching. 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Miami Dolphins news during 2025 NFL preseason week 2 is hot! The Dolphins injury news front is positive as Cam Smith is back at practice after missing the last 6 practices with a soft-tissue injury. Dante Trader Jr. has also returned to Dolphins practice after sustaining a lower-body injury in the first couple practices of Dolphins training camp. We have more Dolphins injury updates on players like Elijah Campbell, Darren Waller and Liam Eichenberg on this episode of Dolphins Today by Chat Sports!

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