The Miami Dolphins haven’t had many players suffer season-ending injuries so far this year, but they’ve been rather unlucky when it comes to week-to-week injuries.
Entering last week’s matchup against the Washington Commanders, the Dolphins were without safety Jevon Holland, left guard Isaiah Wynn and linebacker Jaelan Phillips (out for the year with a torn Achilles).
Then, during the contest, Miami lost left tackle Terron Armstead, right guard Robert Hunt and linebacker Jerome Baker.
With all of the injury statuses up in the air, Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel updated everyone on the statuses of a few of his players.
Here’s what he had to say:
LB Jerome Baker
“Baker will not go on IR. So, it’s a week to week deal. But I think there was stuff reported about his MCL. And the good news is that report is true. So it will be non-surgical and we’ll be taking it week by week.”
RG Robert Hunt
“Rob Hunt was unique because we had been extremely proactively conservative with him so we didn’t anticipate him having a setback. However, it was a unique situation where the defense brought a different blitz pattern and he had to kind of recover in a unique way that you would never – bottom line is it was extremely stressful and pretty abnormal for him to have to open up his gait as much as he did. We’ll go back to our conservative nature with that and do our best. But it was just kind of a perfect storm for him, but he’ll be week to week as well. So, we’ll see.”
LT Terron Armstead
“The Armstead deal – what has snowballed with his injuries is kind of par for the course where he’s going to do everything he can. We’ll make sure to give him some opportunities to feel confident going into this next game before we make that decision. But, if he’s unable to go, as you guys have seen, we have several players at that position that we’re confident in.”
S Jevon Holland
“I think the time off helped Jevon. We’ll be conservative with him for the sake of the football team. He’s a guy we rely on and fortunately we have good depth at that position, I think case and point this past game. So, we’ll be conservative in nature but I’ll be hearing from him all week I’m sure.”
