MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Miami Dolphins backup quarterback Mike White is in the NFL’s concussion protocol soon after workforce team users seen “irregularities” through Saturday’s preseason video game at the Houston Texans, mentor Mike McDaniel reported Monday.
White entered the recreation for a series in the third quarter when Skylar Thompson was taken to the sideline to be evaluated for an injuries.
McDaniel explained there is not however a timeline for White’s return, but the Dolphins will re-indicator quarterback James Blackman, who commenced schooling camp with Miami but was a short while ago cut.
Blackman will be accessible for Saturday’s preseason finale at Jacksonville, alongside with Thompson and Tua Tagovailoa.
White experimented with to evade a go hurry on 2nd down at the Miami 41, but was sacked by Houston defensive stop Adedayo Odeleye. The Dolphins inevitably punted. White was tackled to the ground and did not return. Thompson concluded the game.
“We had them break up to form of equal it out from the sport earlier. When he was in, he was likely to be in for the length,” McDaniel explained, “and then plans immediately transform. You just alter like all soccer teams have to, but we were arranging on getting him some snaps in the activity.”
White signed a two-year offer with the Dolphins in March soon after investing the previous three seasons with the Jets.
White began Miami’s preseason opener versus Atlanta and completed 9 of 14 passes for 85 yards with a single interception. He and Thompson, a 2022 seventh-round draft decide on, are both equally vying for the No. 2 quarterback role driving Tagovailoa.
Thompson bounced again from a two-interception performance in opposition to the Falcons with 157 yards and a few TDs against Houston.
Accidents are piling up a little bit for the Dolphins with less than a thirty day period before the standard-period opener against the Chargers on Sept. 10.
Rookie running back De’Von Achane was carted off the discipline Saturday with a shoulder damage following a defensive lineman fell on him. McDaniel stated Achane avoided serious injury and is 7 days to week.
Cornerback Cam Smith, Miami’s 2023 2nd-round pick, is out with a shoulder harm experienced against Atlanta.
Veteran still left tackle Terron Armstead, who nursed numerous accidents in 2022, appeared to sustain a decreased-human body injury all through a joint follow versus Houston. He was seen on the Dolphins sideline Saturday wearing a walking boot on his right foot, but McDaniel said he is optimistic about Armstead’s return.
“We prevented nearly anything much too significant in terms of a timeline,” McDaniel reported Saturday. “I’m not truly nervous about it. I’m just worried about him having right as fast as possible, which I know he’ll do.”
Robert Jones, who was competing for a beginning remaining guard place, left Saturday with a “lower extremity” damage that will keep him out for at minimum a week, McDaniel explained.
“On a roster like this, what it’s finished is genuinely enabled some men and women to get some opportunities to showcase some expertise while people have been injured,” McDaniel reported. “It’s a tougher factor on teams that really don’t have as significantly depth as we do.”
NOTES: McDaniel claimed he has not concerned himself with regardless of whether defensive lineman Christian Wilkins will extend his maintain-in into the normal time. Wilkins has not participated in workforce drills amid contract negotians. McDaniel has been in frequent get hold of with Wilkins and additional that when Wilkins is all set to go he will convey to him.
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