MIAMI GARDENS — Miami Dolphins second-year edge rusher Chop Robinson has not matched the sack production of his six-sack rookie season.

Robinson has just one thus far, playing in 10 of the team’s 11 games in 2025. A large part of that is from playing behind Bradley Chubb and Jaelan Phillips, while Phillips was still on the team before the trade deadline.

But Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel has seen Robinson go about matters the right way.

“I’ve seen a very important rite of passage for an NFL player, in my opinion,” McDaniel said Wednesday. “As an NFL player, you are earning your respect and regard amongst your peers, around the league, and I think it’s made clear to players when guys respect their game and have high opinions and word of mouth travels fast.

“When expectations of results aren’t met, that’s the sink or swim for all players. And I’ve seen Chop, who is the hardest on himself, relentless, driven, ambitious ballplayer that wants to have 25 sacks every season — how are you going to handle when things don’t go exactly your way? It’s the test of all people in this league, and it makes or breaks you.”

All six of Robinson’s sacks as a rookie came from around the midseason point on through December, so he’s capable of going on a streak.

McDaniel hasn’t seen Robinson press as his numbers haven’t been there.

“You worry about if guys are going to go outside of their responsibilities to try to make plays,” the Dolphins coach said. “It’s always well-intentioned, but that can be selfish football. I’ve seen more focus into the ground up, each step, focus, hand placement, but not losing the confidence. What does that mean? I know we’re going to get good football and ascending football, and it’s kind of, ironically, proving who I thought he was.”

Injury report

McDaniel opened his pre-practice Wednesday news conference by saying all Dolphins players on the active roster would participate in the day’s drills.

This comes after wide receiver Jaylen Waddle and outside linebacker Bradley Chubb were not seen participating in Monday’s practice coming back from the bye.

Waddle was not known to be dealing with an injury going into the Nov. 16 game against the Washington Commanders in Madrid. More information on him could come from the team’s injury report later Wednesday.

Chubb had a foot issue pop up two days before the game, but he played despite entering questionable.

Special teams chatter

Dolphins special teams coordinator Craig Aukerman detailed his perspective of how the kicking game was taken in by the European football aficionados in last week’s win in Spain over the Commanders, saying he felt the crowd was more enthused by special teams than at NFL games in the United States.

“I did. One, unbelievable venue that they have there. Whether it be the crowd, you’re just looking up and it continues to go, whether it’s open or closed, I thought it was unbelievable,” he said of Santiago Bernabéu Stadium. “I felt a little bit more when we kicked or punted, when Riley (Patterson) made all those field goals, I felt like the crowd really got into it. When (punter) Jake (Bailey) hit a big one, the turnover, all those different types of things, I felt the crowd got into it a little bit more, so it was pretty cool.”

The turnover he refers to is cornerback Ethan Bonner recovering the muffed punt by Washington.

“One, Jake, I thought hit a really good ball. It was outside the numbers,” Aukerman said. “I thought Elijah Campbell did a really good job of putting pressure on that returner for him to come up and catch that ball, and then Ethan Bonner on the back side ended up splitting a double team at about 10 to 15 yards past the line of scrimmage and just doing a great job of hustling down there to make that play.”

Linebacker moves

The Dolphins announced Wednesday they signed linebacker Caleb Johnson to the active roster from the practice squad.

Johnson has appeared in 65 games over the past four seasons, primarily as a special teams contributor for the Jacksonville Jaguars the past three seasons and the Chicago Bears in 2021.

He takes the spot vacated by linebacker Jordan Colbert’s placement on injured reserve.

The Dolphins also signed linebacker Jimmy Ciarlo to the practice squad.

An Army alum, Ciarlo was an undrafted signing of the New York Jets last season but tore an ACL in the preseason, He re-emerged with the Buffalo Bills earlier this season and was featured on reality series “Hard Knocks.” Mainly on the practice squad, he had a game in October where he was up on the active roster with Buffalo.

Along with Ciarlo, the Dolphins had fellow linebackers Cam Riley (Florida State) and K.C. Ossai (Louisiana-Lafayette) work out for the team Tuesday.