Fins starting CB Jones out at least four games

MIAMI — The Dolphins positioned beginning cornerback Byron Jones on the reserve/bodily unable to carry out checklist Tuesday as they finalized their preliminary 53-man roster, after he missed all of coaching camp with an Achilles harm.

His placement on the PUP checklist means he’ll miss at the least the staff’s first 4 video games of the common season.

Jones underwent surgical procedure on his left Achilles tendon in March to scrub up a lingering harm he handled through the 2021 season. A supply advised ESPN on the time that Jones was anticipated to be prepared for coaching camp in July however was by no means activated off the PUP checklist.

Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel was requested about Jones’ standing earlier than the staff’s second preseason sport and stated they remained “hopeful” Jones could be prepared for Week 1 and had begun the method of working and doing particular person drills separate from the staff.

“He is precisely the place we thought he could be at this level with some change of course stuff being included on a day by day,” McDaniel stated Aug. 16. “However by way of soccer drills, whether or not he is peddling or working or transferring aspect to aspect, he is simply transferring.”

With out Jones, who signed a five-year, $82 million contract with Miami in 2020, former first-round decide Noah Igbinoghene has obtained a majority of the starter reps all through the preseason. Additionally competing for the job are offseason signee Keion Crossen and Nik Needham, who’s Miami’s beginning nickelback.

Igbinoghene has been the focused defender on 42 routes over the previous two season, permitting 26 catches for four hundred and forty yards and 4 touchdowns.

Miami performs the New England Patriots, Baltimore Ravens, Buffalo Payments and Cincinnati Bengals to begin the season; the Payments and Bengals ranked ninth and seventh in passing yards per sport final season, respectively.

In different roster strikes Tuesday, the Dolphins waived extensive receivers Lynn Bowden Jr. and Preston Williams.

Bowden was a third-round draft number of the Raiders in 2020 and was traded to the Dolphins later that yr. He had 28 receptions for 211 yards as a rookie with Miami however missed all of final season with a hamstring harm.

Williams had 56 receptions for 787 yards and 7 touchdowns with the Dolphins since signing with the staff as an undrafted free agent in 2019.