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Injury Bug Affects Miami in the Long Term

The Dolphins were a relatively healthy team going into their Week 8 matchup with New England. 

You can’t say the same thing about their Week 9 matchup with Buffalo, as the injury bug hit the Dolphins hard in their loss to the Patriots, and they will feel the ramifications for some time to come. 

James suffered a toe injury against the Patriots and will miss Sunday’s game against Buffalo. He posted a picture on his Instagram account of his foot, which is in a hard cast. 

The Dolphins will have two options for replacing James at right tackle. One is Jason Fox, who was atrocious against New England at right tackle, grading out at minus-2.9 at Pro Football Focus; the other is Dallas Thomas, which head coach Dan Campbell floated out as an idea, per Andrew Abramson of the Palm Beach Post. 

Thomas played right tackle in the final eight games of the 2014 season as James replaced Branden Albert at left tackle. Thomas’ performance was horrendous. 

On the other side of the ball you have the injury to Cameron Wake. He tore his Achilles tendon against New England and the next day went on season-ending injured reserve, per Ian Rapoport of NFL.com (h/t Gregg Rosenthal of NFL.com). 

Kenny Stills Breaks Matt Moore’s Nose

Accidents happen on the football field, and they can be painful. 

Just ask Matt Moore, who underwent surgery to fix a broken nose suffered last week at practice, per Andrew Abramson of the Palm Beach Post. 

Wide receiver Kenny Stills broke Moore’s nose, but this wasn’t a training-camp fight, just an awkward landing and an elbow going in the wrong place. 

Stills described the accident like this: “I’m kind of clumsy and I’ve fallen on my elbow a couple of times. I knew immediately when I hit him by how bad my elbow hurt that something was wrong with his face. He was down on his knee, blood coming out of his nose.”

Ouch. As someone who has had his nose broken the same way as Moore, I feel the guy’s pain. Moore described it as a freak accident and a “one-in-a-million deal.” 

Moore will still be available as Miami’s backup quarterback Sunday, but Stills might want to be a little bit more careful in practice from here on out. 

Dolphins Not Ready To Activate Ajayi

I’m not sure I would agree with this move. 

Per Andrew Abramson of the Palm Beach Post, the Dolphins aren’t ready to activate running back Jay Ajayi from the injured list, despite Ajayi being eligible to return this week. 

Head coach Dan Campbell explained why, per Abramson: “We have basically another week or over until we have to absolutely make a decision. But at this point we can if we would like to activate him this week. He will be eligible to do that. We don’t want to do it right now until we know for sure.”

That’s a mistake for Miami in the short term. 

Behind Lamar Miller, the Dolphins have Jonas Gray and Damien Williams. Neither player has really stepped it up when given opportunities, with both of them making their fair share of mistakes. 

Neither player complements Miller well either, whereas Ajayi provides a power element to the run game and can pass-protect and catch passes out of the backfield well. Neither Gray nor Williams has done either. 

Ajayi might not be the ultimate problem-solver, but he would fit well in the offense. He was placed on short-term IR after breaking his rib in the final preseason game but claimed he was healed by the third week of the season. 

There shouldn’t be any hesitation to bring him back this week, as Ajayi is an upgrade over the other two backups on the roster. 

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